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The Graham Norton Book Club (Series 2)
- By: Graham Norton
- Narrated by: Graham Norton
- Podcast
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The Graham Norton Book Club (Series 2)
Sharing stories is one of life's greatest pleasures and that is at the heart of this book club. Our choices are varied, our opinions sometimes very different, but a passion for a tale well told unites us all.
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Oct 24 202147 minsFailed to add items
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Meet Graham Norton
Having won nine BAFTAs for Best Entertainment Performance, and Best Entertainment Programme, and the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards in 2017, Graham Norton is one of the UK's most treasured comedians and presenters. He presents The Graham Norton Show on BBC1, a show on Virgin Radio every Saturday and Sunday, and is a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.
Graham is the author of three novels; the most recent, Home Stretch became an instant bestseller when published in hardback in 2020 in the UK and Ireland and earned Norton dazzling reviews as well as winning the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction. It spent 15 weeks at the top of the Irish Bestseller Chart. Graham’s previous two novels, Holding and A Keeper, were also instant bestsellers both in the UK and Ireland. Holding won the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction while A Keeper was shortlisted for the Specsavers Popular Fiction Award, and the Irish Book Award in the Popular Fiction category.
Meet the co-presenters
Alex Clark
Alex is a journalist and broadcaster regularly seen in the pages of The Guardian, Observer and Times Literary Supplement and heard on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and Open Book. She’s also a former Man Booker and Orwell Prize judge. She says, I’ve been a voracious reader since I was a young child, haunting the local library whenever I could. I vividly remember falling in love with books by a whole range of women novelists from George Eliot to Iris Murdoch to Toni Morrison to Jilly Cooper (Octavia! Imogen! Harriet!) when I was a teenager. I’ve never really looked back and one of my main occupations is building new bookshelves. Among my favourite current writers are Kazuo Ishiguro, Ali Smith, Maggie Nelson and Rachel Cusk. And I adore thrillers.
Sara Collins
Sara is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, winner of the 2019 Costa First Novel Award. She’s also a literary critic and broadcaster for a variety of outlets. She says, Since I was a tiny bookworm desperate to return one stack to the library and check out another, I’ve loved nothing more than reading books and talking about them, so this gig really is a dream come true. I fell in love with gothic novels as a teenager, which proved useful when, decades later, I wrote my own! Anything that holds itself out as a complicated psychological thriller, or has everyone talking about its 'unlikeable protagonist', is an automatic buy for me. But I balance this out through a healthy obsession with chick lit.
Each week we meet an author...
Episode 1: Val McDermid
Val McDermid has sold over 17 million books and been translated into more than 40 languages. She may be best known for her Wire in the Blood series, featuring clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan, which was adapted for television starring Robson Green and Hermione Norris. Further TV adaptations include Traces (BBC) and Karen Pirie (ITV). She also published Resistance, a graphic novelisation of her critically acclaimed radio drama.
Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017, Val has served as a judge for both the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the 2018 Man Booker Prize. The recipient of six honorary doctorates, Val is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford and Visiting Professor in the Centre of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She is an experienced broadcaster and columnist.
Episode 2: Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in more than 45 countries, is the author of more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. Her latest novel, The Testaments, is a co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, now an award-winning TV series. Her other works of fiction include Cat’s Eye, finalist for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy and The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award. She lives in Toronto.
Episode 3: Naoise Dolan
Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin. She studied English Literature at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford University. Exciting Times is her first novel, an excerpt from which was published in The Stinging Fly. .
Exciting Times has been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards, Dalkey Literary Awards and Waterstones Book of the Year. Naoise was also shortlisted for the Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award in 2020.
Episode 4: Matt Haig
Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of two non-fiction books, Reasons to Stay Alive and Notes on a Nervous Planet as well as seven novels for adults, including The Midnight Library, How to Stop Time and The Humans.
Haig also writes award-winning books for children, including A Boy Called Christmas, which has been made into a feature film for 2021 with an all-star cast. He has sold more than three million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over forty languages.
Episode 5: David Sedaris
David Sedaris’ books and essays include Me Talk Pretty One Day, Holidays on Ice, When You Are Engulfed In Flames, Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim, Barrel Fever, Theft by Finding, Naked, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk and The Best of Me. The audio version of Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls was a Grammy nominee for Best Spoken Word Album. He is the author of the New York Times-bestselling collection of fables, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Wicked Bestiary (with illustrations by Ian Falconer). He was also the editor of Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories. Sedaris’ pieces appear regularly in the New Yorker and have twice been included in ‘The Best American Essays’. There are more than ten million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into twenty-nine languages.
Episode 6: Walter Mosley
The author of more than 60 critically-acclaimed books of fiction, nonfiction, memoir and plays, Walter Mosley’s work has been translated into 25 languages. His books have been adapted for film and tv and his short fiction and nonfiction essays have been published in outlets from The New York Times to The Nation. He has won numerous awards, including an O.Henry Award, MWA’s Grand Master Award, a Grammy®, NAACP Image awards, PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2020 Robert Kirsch Award, and the National Book Award’s Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Episode 7: Tracy Chevalier
Tracy Chevalier is the author of ten novels, including At the Edge of the Orchard, Remarkable Creatures and Girl with a Pearl Earring, an international bestseller that has sold over five million copies and won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award. Born in Washington DC, in 1984 she moved to London, where she lives with her husband and son.
Episode 8: Yaa Gyasi
Yaa Gyasi was born in Mampong, Ghana, and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Her first novel, Homegoing, was a Sunday Times best seller, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First Novel and was shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2017 Yaa was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists and in 2019 the BBC selected her debut as one of the 100 Novels that Shaped Our World.
Her second book, Transcendent Kingdom, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and is a New York Times best seller.
Episode 9: Lisa Taddeo
Lisa Taddeo is the author of Animal and Three Women, which she is currently adapting for a television series with Showtime. Three Women was both a Sunday Times and a New York Times number one bestseller, the most-picked book of the year in the UK in 2019, the British Book Awards Narrative Non-Fiction Book of the Year and the Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Animal was an instant Sunday Times bestseller on publication in 2021. Lisa lives with her husband and daughter in New England.
Episode 10: Isabel Allende
Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of a number of bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including A Long Petal of the Sea, The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, The Stories of Eva Luna and Paula. Her books have been translated into more than forty-two languages and have sold more than seventy-five million copies worldwide. She lives in California. Her new novel, Violeta, will be published in January 2022.
...and performers talk books
Episode 1: Dave Grohl
Dave Grohl, a 16-time Grammy-winning musician and two-time Emmy-winning director, has been one of the most beloved and respected figures on the international music scene since his recorded debut with Nirvana on 1991's generation-defining Nevermind.
Grohl took centre stage with Foo Fighters' 1995 self-titled debut, the first album in a 12-Grammy-winning catalogue that now includes The Colour & The Shape (1997), There Is Nothing Left To Lose (1999), One By One (2002), In Your Honor (2005), Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007), Wasting Light (2011), Sonic Highways (2014), Concrete and Gold (2017) and, most recently, Medicine at Midnight (2021).
Episode 2: Derren Brown
Derren Brown has re-defined magic through his TV and stage events, exhilarating audiences world-wide with a unique brand of mind-control, suggestion, showmanship and illusion. Through his award-winning shows he has gained a reputation as a performer prepared to constantly challenge and break down boundaries. He is also a best-selling author and accomplished painter.
Episode 3: Miriam Margolyes
Born in Oxford, England in 1941 and educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, Miriam Margolyes is an award-winning veteran of the stage and screen, and an internationally acclaimed voice-artist.
Winner of the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress award for The Age of Innocence, she received an OBE in 2002 for Services to Drama. This Much is True is her long-awaited autobiography.
Episode 4: Celia Imrie
Celia Imrie is an Olivier Award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress. She is known for her film roles in The Best and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotels, Calendar Girls, Nanny McPhee, Bridget Jones, Absolutely Fabulous, Year by the Sea, A Cure for Wellness, Finding Your Feet, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and the cult TV series Better Things.
Celia Imrie is also the author of her autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, and the top ten Sunday Times bestselling novels in The Nice Trilogy – Not Quite Nice, Nice Work (If You Can Get It) and A Nice Cup of Tea, and Sail Away.
Episode 5: Michelle Zauner
Michelle Zauner is best known as a singer and guitarist who creates dreamy, shoegaze-inspired indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. She has won acclaim from major music outlets around the world for releases like Psychopomp and Soft Sounds from Another Planet. Her third album, Jubilee, released in 2021. Crying in H Mart is her first book.
Episode 6: Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay OBE is a poet playwright, memoirist performer and broadcaster. Lemn has read on stage throughout the world, from The Library of Congress in The United States to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, from the Opera House of Dubai to London Palladium, and finally, to the heady heights of Wigan library in… Wigan.
Lemn was awarded The Pen Pinter Prize in 2019 when his memoir My name Is Why reached number one in The Sunday Times bestseller list. In 2021 it won the Indie Book Awards nonfiction prize.
Episode 7: Miles Jupp
Miles Jupp is an actor, comedian and writer. His work spans across theatre, film, tv, radio, books and stand up. Recent credits include Philippa Lowthorpe’s feature Misbehaviour, Netflix’s Sex Education and ITV’s Grantchester. Further television credits include: Howard’s End, The Crown, The Durrells, A Young Doctor’s Notebook, The Thick Of It, Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, and Gary: Tank Commander. Film credits include The Man Who Invented Christmas, Tarzan, Chick Lit, Rosewater, The Monuments Men, The Riot Club, The Look of Love and most recently Greed. Miles has appeared on the West End stage in Angus Jackson’s Neville’s Island and in Alan Bennett’s Home. Miles also starred in his one-man play entitled The Life I Lead toured around the UK and went into the West End.
Episode 8: Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo, MBE, is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other made her the first black woman to win the Booker Prize, as well winner of Fiction Book of the Year and Author of the Year at the British Book Awards, and winner of an Indie Book Award. In 2020, she became the first woman of colour and black British writer to reach No.1 in the UK paperback fiction chart. Her writing spans reviews, essays, drama and radio, and she has edited and guest-edited national publications, including The Sunday Time's Style magazine. Bernardine is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University, London, and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London with her husband.
Episode 10: Weruche Opia
Weruche Opia recently starred as a series lead in I May Destroy You for BBC/HBO, which earnt her a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Other credits include Inside No.9 and Bad Education for the BBC and Top Boy for Channel 4.
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1979
- By: Val McDermid
- Narrated by: Katie Leung
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 985
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 890
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 888
1979. It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is chasing her first big scoop. There are few women in the newsroom, and she needs something explosive for the boys' club to take her seriously. Soon Allie and fellow journalist Danny Sullivan are exposing the criminal underbelly of respectable Scotland. They risk making powerful enemies - and Allie won't stop there.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too many jarring mispronunciations
- By Sinonia on 25-08-21
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The Storyteller
- Tales of Life and Music
- By: Dave Grohl
- Narrated by: Dave Grohl
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8,578
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7,670
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7,636
So, I’ve written a book. This certainly doesn’t mean that I’m quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it’s like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall....
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5 out of 5 stars
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You Are Not Dave
- By VW on 07-10-21
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The Wind in the Willows
- By: Kenneth Grahame
- Narrated by: Michael Hordern
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,333
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,148
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,143
Here is a timeless tale of waterside Britain that has been loved by generations of children and acclaimed as a classic. The story of Mole, Ratty, Badger, and Toad, and their escapades, whether messing about on the river or poop-pooping in Toad's shiny new car, cannot fail to enchant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great performance
- By Annika on 02-01-14
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On Beulah Height
- Dalziel and Pascoe, Book 17
- By: Reginald Hill
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 512
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 468
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 471
They moved everyone that long hot summer fifteen years ago. They needed a new reservoir and an old community seemed a cheap price to pay. They even dug up the dead and moved them too. But four inhabitants of the valley they couldn't move, for nobody knew where they were. Three little girls had gone missing, and the prime suspect in their disappearance, Benny Lightfoot. This was Andy Dalziel's worst case and now fifteen years on he looks set to relive it. It's another long hot summer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How high can Hill go?
- By Anonymous User on 16-05-15
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Treasure Island
- By: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrated by: David Buck
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 992
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 864
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 863
With buried treasure, treacherous buccaneers, a young hero, and Long John Silver, the one-legged villain, Treasure Island remains one of the most popular of pirate adventures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Argh, Jim M'lad
- By Alexandria on 30-05-14
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The Amityville Horror
- By: Jay Anson
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,083
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 940
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Story4 out of 5 stars 943
In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in the house, but the property - complete with boathouse and swimming pool - and the price were too good to pass up. This is the shocking true story of an American dream that turned into a nightmare beyond imagining for the Lutz family, who were forced to flee their new home in terror.
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5 out of 5 stars
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good
- By Griff.81 on 12-02-12
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Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
- By: Stephen LaBerge PhD, Howard Rheingold
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Lucid Dreaming - conscious awareness during the dream state - is an exhilarating experience. Because the world you are experiencing is one of your own creation, you can do the impossible and consciously influence the outcome of your dreams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brave New Lucid Worlds
- By Sean on 20-01-21
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Milkman
- By: Anna Burns
- Narrated by: Anna Burns
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 156
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No Maybes - this is so good!
- By DaveD on 28-10-19
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Girl, Woman, Other
- By: Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrated by: Anna-Maria Nabirye
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,855
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,122
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,107
From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the 20th century to the teens of the 21st, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of 12 characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Utterly terrible audio version of a good book
- By EEL on 03-08-19
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And Away...
- By: Bob Mortimer
- Narrated by: Bob Mortimer
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11,636
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10,330
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10,273
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him but forced him to reflect on his life so far. This is the framework for his hilarious and moving memoir, And Away....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful book
- By Lauren on 17-09-21
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Glittering a Turd
- By: Kris Hallenga
- Narrated by: Kris Hallenga
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 482
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 438
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Story5 out of 5 stars 438
Kris was living a totally normal life as a 23-year-old: travelling the world, falling in love, making plans. However, when she found a lump in her boob and was told that it was not only cancer, but also incurable, life took on a completely new meaning. She was diagnosed at an age when life wasn’t something to be grateful for, but a goddamn right. Little did Kris know it was cancer that would lead her to a life she had never considered: a happy one.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspirational, captivating a must read!
- By MS SHARON E BROWN on 13-12-21
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The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Lord of the Rings, Book 1
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Andy Serkis
- Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8,351
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7,465
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7,433
In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power - the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord Sauron’s evil dominion. Thus begins J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic tale of adventure, which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible - Andy Serkis shouldn’t have been asked to read this
- By Cal on 17-09-21
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Alias Grace
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Shelley Thompson
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,094
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 985
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 988
Sixteen years have passed since Grace was locked up, at the age of 16, for the cold-blooded murders of her employer and his housekeeper/lover. Her alleged accomplice in the crimes, James McDermot, paid the extreme sentence of the law and was hanged on November 21, 1843. But some thought Grace was innocent, and her sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment. After a spell in the Lunatic Asylum she now claims to have no memory of the murders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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beautifully written and narrated
- By Brid on 30-09-16
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A Book of Secrets
- Finding Solace in a Stubborn World
- By: Derren Brown
- Narrated by: Derren Brown
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 501
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 440
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 436
In this thoughtful and brilliant new book, the internationally best-selling author of Happy considers the value of friction in our lives. In chapters revealing his own moments of anger and prejudice, anxiety and shyness, loneliness and loss, Derren Brown examines the means to a more rewarding life, be it saving yourself from small talk or navigating middle age.
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2 out of 5 stars
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What is he on about?
- By Francesca on 06-10-21
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The Beatrix Potter Collection
- By: Beatrix Potter
- Narrated by: Andrew Scott, Patricia Routledge - introduction
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 348
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 299
The Beatrix Potter Collection is perfect for introducing a new generation to the magic of her adored classic stories. Featuring her much-loved children’s tales and showcasing some of the most recognisable characters in English literature, it will enthral and entertain young listeners whilst providing warm nostalgia for those already acquainted.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Inappropriate extras
- By JJ on 17-08-19
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Mother Goose's Bedtime Rhymes
- By: Axel Scheffler
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas, Steven Pacey
- Length: 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
Bedtime is never an easy time of day for a parent - especially when you have three playful little goslings to look after! Luckily Mother Goose soon discovered that her family loved listening to nursery rhymes, and now their favourite bedtime rhymes are collected together for you to enjoy too.
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Read by the Cast of the Stage Play
- By: Choderlos de Laclos
- Narrated by: Dominic West, Janet McTeer, Una Stubbs, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 440
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Story4 out of 5 stars 384
From the sumptuous private drawing rooms of 18th-century Paris to the decadent estates and chateaus of the French countryside, La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont hatch a long-distance plan of vengeance and seduction. Valmont is determined to conquer the famously pious Madame de Tourvel, whose husband is abroad on business. However, Merteuil has other plans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deliciously wicked dramatisation
- By Em on 23-02-16
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Bitch: A Roald Dahl Short Story
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Richard E Grant
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of “Bitch”, a short, sharp, saucy story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. Read by the actors Derek Jacobi and Richard E. Grant. In “Bitch”, Roald Dahl, one of the world’s favourite authors, tells a funny, fruity story about one of his favourite characters, adventurer and seducer Oswald Hendryks Cornelius.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Silly and fun
- By Steve on 01-11-22
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Midlife
- A Philosophical Guide
- By: Kieran Setiya
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4 out of 5 stars 49
How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this self-help book with a difference, Kieran Setiya confronts the inevitable challenges of adulthood and middle age, showing how philosophy can help you thrive. You will learn why missing out might be a good thing, how options are overrated, and when you should be glad you made a mistake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent read
- By Anonymous User on 15-03-18
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Stoner
- A Novel
- By: John Williams
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,033
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 936
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 932
Waterstone's book of the year. Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013, translations of Stoner began appearing on best-seller lists across Europe. William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at 19 to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written
- By mitchell bell on 28-09-17
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It Can't Happen Here
- By: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Story4 out of 5 stars 103
Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip. The suspiciously fascist Windrip is offering to save the nation from sex, crime, welfare cheats, and a liberal press. But after Windrip wins the election, dissent soon becomes dangerous for Jessup. Windrip forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a totalitarian state.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A story for our times
- By Patrick on 20-07-16
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Ruby Dee
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 261
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 261
Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic story
- By juanita on 10-12-19
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
- By: Charlie Mackesy
- Narrated by: Charlie Mackesy
- Length: 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,429
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,163
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,154
Experience the world of a curious boy, a greedy mole, a wary fox and a wise horse who find themselves together in sometimes difficult terrain, sharing their greatest fears and biggest discoveries about vulnerability, kindness, hope, friendship and love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding & Unexpected Emotional Experience
- By sue66 on 08-01-21
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 24,035
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22,192
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22,135
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A return to form
- By Amazon Customer on 06-05-21
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Exciting Times
- Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
- By: Naoise Dolan
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 536
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 434
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 434
Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than 'I like you a great deal'. Enter Edith, a lawyer. Refreshingly enthusiastic and unapologetically earnest, Edith takes Ava to the theatre when Julian leaves Hong Kong for work. Quickly, she becomes something Ava looks forward to. And then Julian writes to tell Ava he is coming back to Hong Kong....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Exhausted by Ava’s tedious self-absorption
- By AD on 20-10-20
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This Much Is True
- By: Miriam Margolyes
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,724
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8,825
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,782
Award-winning actor, creator of a myriad of memorable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes is a national treasure. Now, at last, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story. And it's far richer and stranger than any part she's played.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Frank & Funny
- By John C. Patterson on 23-09-21
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Jane Eyre
- By: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,786
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,433
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,426
Following Jane from her childhood as an orphan in Northern England through her experience as a governess at Thornfield Hall, Charlotte Brontë's Gothic classic is an early exploration of women's independence in the mid-19th century and the pervasive societal challenges women had to endure. At Thornfield, Jane meets the complex and mysterious Mr. Rochester, with whom she shares a complicated relationship that ultimately forces her to reconcile the conflicting passions of romantic love and religious piety.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful audiobook!!
- By Philip on 13-02-17
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Oreo
- By: Fran Ross
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
With an introduction by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James. Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note. Oreo’s quest is to find her father and discover the secret of her birth. What ensues in Fran Ross' opus is a playful, modernised parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in '70s pop culture and mixing standard English, black vernacular and Yiddish with wisecracking aplomb.
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5 out of 5 stars
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striking, original and hilarious
- By Garfield Braithwaite on 28-02-20
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Heaven
- By: Mieko Kawakami, David Boyd - translator, Sam Bett - translator
- Narrated by: Scott Keiji Takeda
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4 out of 5 stars 89
In Heaven, a 14-year-old boy is tormented for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, he chooses to suffer in silence. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate, Kojima, who experiences similar treatment at the hands of her bullies. Providing each other with immeasurable consolation at a time in their lives when they need it most, the two young friends grow closer than ever. But what, ultimately, is the nature of a friendship when your shared bond is terror?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartfelt
- By Anonymous User on 27-07-23
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Oliver Twist
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Jonathan Pryce
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 524
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 472
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 466
When young orphan, Oliver Twist, is sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker, he leaves behind years of miserable servitude and mistreatment at an English workhouse. Hoping to move on to better things, he decides to escape his new, equally dreary surroundings and head to London. It is there that the novel unravels as Oliver meets a host of larger-than-life characters, including The Artful Dodger, a high-ranking member of a juvenile pickpocketing gang, and their elderly leader, Fagin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliant rendition of an absorbing book.
- By Keith Phillips on 27-04-19
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A House for Mr. Biswas
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 21 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
A House for Mr. Biswas, by Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul, is a powerful novel about one man's struggle for identity and belonging. Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own. He loathes his wife and her wealthy family, upon whom he is dependent. Finding himself a mere accessory on their estate, his constant rebellion is motivated by the one thing that can symbolize his independence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook marred by inattention to country context
- By NCoops on 27-08-19
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Great Expectations
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens, Howard Jacobson
- Narrated by: Matt Lucas, Howard Jacobson
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 897
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 812
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 809
In this Audible Exclusive performance by Matt Lucas of Great Expectations, Charles Dickens demonstrates that conscience, loyalty and empathy are virtues far more valuable than intellect, wealth and social standing. First published in Dickens’ own periodical, All the Year Round, the novel was divided into nine monthly instalments, from December 1860 to August 1861. Unsurprisingly, it was an instant success and managed to sell over 100,000 copies per week. Though written at a challenging time in Dickens’ life, when the impending breakdown of his marriage loomed over him, Great Expectations proves to be one of his most optimistic, comical and romantic novels.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story, Great Narrator, Great Expectations
- By Mrs. R. E. Chandler on 07-10-18
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Sea of Poppies
- By: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrated by: Kish Sharma
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 175
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 172
In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races and generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wonderful!
- By alli on 26-08-15
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Assembly
- By: Natasha Brown
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 148
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 127
The narrator of Assembly is a Black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart?
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3 out of 5 stars
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A bit of a shock
- By Jaemy on 18-04-23
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Our Souls at Night
- A Novel
- By: Kent Haruf
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 106
In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have known of each other for decades; in fact, Addie was quite fond of Louis's wife.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and enduring
- By Imogen Papworth on 16-11-17
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They Both Die at the End
- TikTok made me buy it!
- By: Adam Silvera
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Robbie Daymond, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 426
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 379
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 381
On 5th September, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: they're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: there's an app for that. It's called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely breathtaking story
- By Luke Farmer on 11-01-23
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Spider Woman
- A Life
- By: Lady Hale
- Narrated by: Lady Hale
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 150
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 132
As 'a little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire', she only went into the law because her headteacher told her she wasn't clever enough to study history. She became the most senior judge in the country, but it was an unconventional path to the top. Wise, warm and inspiring, Spider Woman shows how the law shapes our world and supports us in crisis. It is the story of how Lady Hale found that she could overcome the odds, which shows that anyone from similar beginnings will find that they can cope, too.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well written and well read
- By tony johnson on 13-11-21
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The Midnight Library
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28,921
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25,608
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25,550
Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite choices, what is the best way to live?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fantasy may be hard to take if you’re depressed
- By Joan on 04-09-20
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How to Be Animal
- A New History of What It Means to Be Human
- By: Melanie Challenger
- Narrated by: Melanie Challenger
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4 out of 5 stars 18
How to Be Animal writes a remarkable story of what it means to be human and argues that at the heart of our psychology is a profound struggle with being animal. As well as piecing together the mystery of how this psychology evolved, the book examines the wide-reaching ways in which it affects our lives, from our politics to the ways we distance ourselves from other species.
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5 out of 5 stars
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brilliantly put together
- By Graham Music on 22-03-22
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Orphans of the Storm
- By: Celia Imrie
- Narrated by: Celia Imrie
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 230
Nice, France, 1911: After three years of marriage, young seamstress Marcela Caretto has finally had enough. Her husband, Michael, an ambitious tailor, has become cruel and controlling, and she determines to get a divorce. But while awaiting the judges’ decision on the custody of their two small boys, Michael receives news that changes everything. Meanwhile fun-loving New York socialite Margaret Hays is touring Europe with some friends. Restless, she resolves to head home aboard the most celebrated steamer in the world – RMS Titanic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen
- By Semer 57 on 18-09-21
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The Woman in White
- By: Wilkie Collins
- Narrated by: Billy Howle
- Length: 24 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Published in instalments in 1859, The Woman in White is often considered to be one of the very first detective novels. Although critics weren’t impressed at the time, the novel proved to be a hit with the public and has since gone on to become one of the timeless classics of the Victorian era. Following the adventures of Walter Hartright, this is a story of sleuthing, inheritance, ghosts and mistaken identity and was recently the subject of a hit TV adaptation by the BBC.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A delight.
- By Deirdre whelan on 06-04-20
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Atonement
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 855
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 758
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 760
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Slow start but beautifully crafted...
- By essjaybella on 22-09-16
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Room
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Suzanne Toren, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,508
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,109
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,100
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room, and the outside world. It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real – only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good listen
- By Amazon Customer on 15-02-11
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Big Little Lies
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,280
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,668
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,653
Pirriwee Public is a beautiful little beachside primary school where children are taught that ‘sharing is caring.’ So how has the annual School Trivia Night ended in full-blown riot? Sirens are wailing. People are screaming. The principal is mortified. And one parent is dead. Was it a murder, a tragic accident or just good parents gone bad? As the parents at Pirriwee Public are about to discover, sometimes it’s the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Should be 4.5 Stars - Fantastic Surprise
- By Gavingks on 06-11-14
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
- By: Sally Rooney
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,855
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,590
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 1,590
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them.
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3 out of 5 stars
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wish I'd stopped at normal people
- By Susie on 07-09-21
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The Holiday
- By: T.M. Logan
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,310
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,913
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,906
It was supposed to be the perfect holiday, dreamed up by Kate as the ideal way to turn 40: four best friends and their husbands and children in a luxurious villa under the blazing sunshine of Languedoc-Roussillon. But there is trouble in paradise. Kate suspects that her husband is having an affair, and that the other woman is one of her best friends. One of these women is willing to sacrifice years of friendship and destroy her family. But which one?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Once again - a wasted credit
- By Carol on 15-08-19
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Sapiens
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25,996
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22,049
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21,903
Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us sapiens? In this bold and provocative audiobook, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here, and where we're going.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking but overconfident
- By Jan W. H. Schnupp on 24-09-15
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A Carnival of Snackery
- Diaries: Volume Two
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris, Tracey Ullman
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Story5 out of 5 stars 312
If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street; collecting Romanian insults, or being taken round a Japanese parasite museum. There's a dirty joke shared at a book signing, then a dirtier one told at a dinner party - lots of jokes here. Plenty of laughs. These diaries remind you that you once really hated George W. Bush, and that not too long ago, Donald Trump was a harmless laughingstock, at least on French TV.
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1 out of 5 stars
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David doesn’t narrate this?
- By Mr Zzs on 07-10-21
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Crying in H Mart
- By: Michelle Zauner
- Narrated by: Michelle Zauner
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 644
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 556
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 551
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story, boring and monotonous narrator.
- By Anonymous User on 05-10-21
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A Burning
- The most electrifying debut of 2021
- By: Megha Majumdar
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Priya Ayyar, Deepti Gupta, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 109
Set in contemporary India, A Burning is the story of three unforgettable characters, all dreaming of a better future, whose lives are changed for ever when they become caught up in the devastating aftermath of a terrorist attack. Jivan - a poor, young, Muslim girl, who dreams of going to college - faces a possible death sentence after being accused of collaborating with the terrorists. Lovely - an exuberant hijra who longs to be a Bollywood star - holds the alibi that can set Jivan free, but telling the truth will cost her everything she holds dear.
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3 out of 5 stars
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“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” — Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
- By Myra Walsh on 15-04-22
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Housekeeping (40th Anniversary Edition)
- A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)
- By: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply deeply touching
- By Louise G on 27-10-22
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The Vegetarian
- By: Han Kang
- Narrated by: Janet Song, Stephen Park
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 115
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Story4 out of 5 stars 115
Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plantlike' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing story, very special. Dire narration.
- By Dewey on 19-04-19
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Convenience Store Woman
- By: Sayaka Murata
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 649
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 547
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Story4 out of 5 stars 545
Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years. Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married. But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating book
- By Arlene Finnigan on 10-01-21
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Windswept & Interesting
- My Autobiography
- By: Billy Connolly
- Narrated by: Billy Connolly
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 12,172
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10,897
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10,835
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of fourth and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life is a remarkable story of success against all the odds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Marvellous
- By john donoghue on 14-10-21
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The Couple at No. 9
- By: Claire Douglas
- Narrated by: Kenton Thomas, Nathalie Buscombe
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,723
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,319
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,309
When pregnant Saffron Cutler moves into 9 Skelton Place with boyfriend Tom and sets about renovations, the last thing she expects is builders uncovering a body - two bodies, in fact. Forensics indicate the bodies have been buried at least 30 years. Nothing Saffy need worry herself over. Until the police launch a murder investigation and ask to speak to the cottage's former owner - her grandmother, Rose. Rose is in a care home, and Alzheimer's means her memory is increasingly confused. She can't help the police, but it is clear she remembers something.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Claire Douglas back on breathtaking top form again
- By Podenco Fan on 07-10-21
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22,196
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18,961
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18,918
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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5 out of 5 stars
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A superb production of a sci fi classic!
- By Peter on 21-07-07
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Devil in a Blue Dress
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4 out of 5 stars 112
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story , and a little different...
- By Lynne A on 09-05-21
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Winnie-the-Pooh
- A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics, Volume 1
- By: A. A. Milne
- Narrated by: Peter Dennis
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 510
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 416
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Story5 out of 5 stars 413
Come with us to an Enchanted Place, a forest where Winnie-the-Pooh lived with Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, Kanga, and Little Roo. The stories are about Christopher Robin and these good companions having wonderful times getting in and out of trouble. It is all very exciting and, really, quite thrilling no matter how young or old you may be. It is painful to try and imagine what the world would be like without them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just as it should be!
- By Diane Severson on 10-09-13
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My Name Is Why
- By: Lemn Sissay
- Narrated by: Lemn Sissay, Richard Burnip, Zoe Mills
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,303
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,048
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,042
At the age of 17, after a childhood in an fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. Here Sissay recounts his life story. It is a story of neglect and determination. Misfortune and hope. Cruelty and triumph.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Painful reading
- By candide on 01-09-19
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Lemn Sissay
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
The practical cats need no introduction, but this stunning new reading by Lemn Sissay brings the poems vibrantly alive to introduce a new generation of children to Eliot's work. Lemn Sissay MBE is a poet, playwright and occasional broadcaster. He has read poetry all over the world and was the first poet commissioned to write for the London Olympics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great classic and rightfully acted
- By Anonymous User on 27-03-22
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On Writing
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,705
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,333
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,312
In June of 1999, Stephen King was hit by a van while walking along the shoulder of a country road in Maine. Six operations were required to save his life and mend his broken body. When he was finally able to sit up, he immediately started writing. This book - part biography, part a collection of tips for the aspiring writer - is the extraordinary result.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great personal insight
- By Blinkinmarvellous on 13-04-13
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A Passage North
- By: Anuk Arudpragasam
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 126
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 129
It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an activist he fell in love with while living in Delhi, bringing with it the stirring of distant memories and desires. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral, so begins a passage into the soul of an island devastated by violence.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Monologue
- By Amazon Customer on 08-12-21
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Cold Comfort Farm
- Penguin Classics
- By: Stella Gibbons
- Narrated by: Pearl Mackie
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 252
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 251
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at 19, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last 20 years. But Flora loves nothing better than to organise other people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enchanting
- By Sophie on 01-11-20
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Heartburn
- By: Nora Ephron
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,352
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,198
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,188
Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter.
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3 out of 5 stars
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In 1983, he cheated and she waited for him
- By Lin Becker on 04-10-18
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Fleishman Is in Trouble
- By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 541
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 473
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Story4 out of 5 stars 474
Finally free from his nightmare of a marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of Tinder dating and weekend-only parental duties. But as he optimistically looks to a future of few responsibilities, his life turns upside down as his ex-wife Rachel suddenly disappears. While Toby tries to find out what happened - juggling work, his kids and his new, app-assisted sexual popularity - his tidy narrative of a spurned husband is his sole consolation.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Unconvincing uninteresting irritating
- By steve greensleaves on 20-08-19
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The Christmasaurus and the Naughty List
- By: Tom Fletcher, Shane Devries - illustrator
- Narrated by: Paul Shelley, Tom Fletcher
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 206
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 174
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Story5 out of 5 stars 173
You know about the Naughty-and-Nice List, right? Santa's top-secret tracker that he ALWAYS checks twice? Well, this year, the Christmasaurus is on a mission to track down children who have found themselves on the Naughty List to help them put wrongs to rights, naughty to nice! This is a story about mischievous kids learning the error of their ways, but it's also about sharing the true spirit of Christmas and realising that sometimes things aren't quite as they first appear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant 3rd Christmasaurus book!
- By Laura Jane Grey on 11-12-21
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The Yorkshire Shepherdess
- By: Amanda Owen
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 818
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 708
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Story5 out of 5 stars 704
Amanda Owen has been seen by millions on ITV's The Dales, living a life that has almost gone in today's modern world, a life ruled by the seasons and her animals. She is a farmer's wife and shepherdess, living alongside her husband, Clive, and seven children at Ravenseat, a 2,000 acre sheep hill farm at the head of Swaledale in North Yorkshire. It's a challenging life but one she loves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny, uplifting and inspiring in equal measure.
- By Angela on 09-10-20
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State of Terror
- By: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny
- Narrated by: Joan Allen
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 532
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 485
State of Terror follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out of touch and out of power in the places where it counts the most.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By Linda Cannon on 20-11-21
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Journey's End
- A BBC Radio 4 drama
- By: R C Sherriff
- Narrated by: Derek Seaton, Garard Green, Martin Jarvis, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story5 out of 5 stars 28
Journey's End is an unflinching vision of life in the tranches towards the end of the First World War. The play opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new 18-year-old officer fresh out of school, joins the besieged company of his friend and hero Stanhope. But when he arrives in the trenches, he finds Stanhope dramatically changed. This vintage BBC radio production from 1970 stars Martin Jarvis as Captain Stanhope. Bonus content: this BBC radio release includes The Man From Esher and his Theatre of War, a 30 minute documentary about R C Sherriff and the story behind Journey’s End.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Get the right voices.....
- By Matsumoto on 16-12-20
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Little House in the Big Woods
- Little House, Book 1
- By: Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Narrated by: Cherry Jones
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Told from four-year-old Laura's point of view, this story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura lives in the little house with her pa, her ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard for the family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But it is also exciting as Laura and her family celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and make their first trip into town.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Little House In The Big Woods Review
- By Amazon Customer on 12-07-18
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Fingersmith
- By: Sarah Waters
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 23 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,492
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,361
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,355
London 1862: Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'. But from the moment she draws breath, Sue's fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant!
- By joanna on 02-10-14
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History
- The hilarious, unmissable novel from the brilliant Miles Jupp
- By: Miles Jupp
- Narrated by: Miles Jupp
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 416
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 389
Clive Hapgood is feeling stuck. The private school he teaches at is consuming his life, no thanks to wretched headteacher Julian Crouch. The gentle country life Clive envisaged has stifled him and left his marriage on the brink. What he needs is a holiday - something to remind him and Helen what life used to be like. But when things don't go to plan, and an incident at school begins to weigh heavy on his head, Clive's life starts to unravel in front of him. Has he got it in him to turn things around, whatever the cost? After all, it's his own time he's wasting....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By Ned-iddley. on 21-08-21
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The Liar
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 656
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 520
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Story4 out of 5 stars 517
Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Listen
- By MrY on 13-09-12
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Notes From a Small Island
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,645
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,043
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,033
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland, and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Funny but sloppy.
- By Sebastian on 07-03-13
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Any Human Heart
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Darren Boyd
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 405
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 371
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 370
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, and Logan Mountstuart's - stretching across the 20th century - is a rich tapestry of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and betrayed in the war and as an art-dealer in '60s New York, Logan mixes with the men and women who shape his times. But as a son, friend, lover and husband, he makes the same mistakes we all do in our search for happiness. Here, then, is the story of a life lived to the full - and a journey deep into a very human heart.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dull, uninspiring and superficial
- By Ms on 29-11-20
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The Human Factor
- By: Graham Greene
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 706
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 614
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 611
When a leak is traced back to a small sub-section of SIS, it sparks off security checks, tensions and suspicions - the sort of atmosphere where mistakes could be made. This novel opens up the lonely, isolated, neurotic world of the Secret Service.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Superb Narration
- By Peter on 02-05-13
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Smiley's People
- The Karla Trilogy, Book 3
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,711
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,385
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,379
George Smiley was summoned from his dubious retirement by two seemingly unconnected events - an old woman in Paris is promised the return of a daughter she will never see, and a handover is to take place on a steamer in Hamburg.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An underrated writer
- By CAL on 24-09-12
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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 5,849
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,132
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,115
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. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that one of the children will not survive the week.
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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
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This Must Be the Place
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd, Penelope Rawlins
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 861
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 794
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Story4 out of 5 stars 788
A reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgun. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic career when she had the whole world at her feet? Her husband Daniel, reeling from a discovery about a woman he last saw twenty years ago, is about to make an exit of his own. It is a journey that will send him off-course, far away from the life he and Claudette have made together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wonderful story, really well read
- By Philippa Considine on 25-05-16
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Under the Volcano
- A Novel
- By: Malcolm Lowry
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4 out of 5 stars 61
On the Day of the Dead, in 1938, Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic and ruined man, is fatefully living out his last day, drowning himself in mescal while his former wife and half-brother look on, powerless to help him. The events of this one day unfold against a backdrop unforgettable for its evocation of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical.
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5 out of 5 stars
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brilliant book, but beware of the narration
- By T on 20-02-14
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Midwinter Break
- By: Bernard MacLaverty
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Story4 out of 5 stars 98
An intense exploration of love and uncertainty when a long-married couple, Gerry and Stella, take a midwinter break in Amsterdam to refresh the senses, do some sightseeing and generally take stock of their lives. Their relationship seems easy, familiar - but over its course we discover the deep uncertainties between them. Gerry, once an architect, is forgetful and set in his ways. Stella is tired of his lifestyle and angry at his constant undermining of her religious faith.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best listen of 2017
- By peter on 08-11-17
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A Promised Land
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 12,346
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10,557
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,476
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dropping a classic
- By jesse on 17-11-20
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Before & Laughter
- By: Jimmy Carr
- Narrated by: Jimmy Carr
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4,470
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,953
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,929
Written to take advantage of the brief window between the end of lockdown and Jimmy getting cancelled for saying something unforgivable to Lorraine Kelly, this book is as timely as it is unnecessary. Because you might be interested in Jimmy's life but he's damn sure you're a lot more interested in your own, Before & Laughter is about both of you. But mainly him.
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1 out of 5 stars
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borrows quotes, No original ideas of his own
- By mr c j skirving on 05-10-21
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Love and Fury
- The Magic and Mayhem of Life with Tyson
- By: Paris Fury
- Narrated by: Paris Fury, Reanne Farley
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 602
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 511
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Story5 out of 5 stars 517
Paris Fury is Tyson's rock, the wife he thanks for all his success. Both from Traveller families, she married him at 19 and is hands-on mother to their six children, as well as at his side through every fight. Always glamorous, strong, grounded and her own woman. When Tyson's struggles with depression, OCD and alcohol have threatened to overwhelm them, she has held them together and helped to see Tyson through to the greatest boxing victories. With all her warmth, humour and honesty, she tells her story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting insight into an incredible life
- By S Nimmo on 31-10-21
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Homegoing
- By: Yaa Gyasi
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,534
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,385
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,386
Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, narrated by Dominic Hoffman.
Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery, one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the most beautiful books I've ever read
- By Melanie MacNeill on 13-02-17
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
- By: Saidiya Hartman
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story5 out of 5 stars 17
What was the fate of the first generations of black women born after abolition in America? Struggle: to create autonomous and beautiful lives, to escape new forms of servitude, and to live as if they really were free. This book re-creates the radical imagination and wayward practices of these young women by describing the world through their eyes. Re-creating their fragmentary life stories using a combination of archival research and virtuosic literary imagination, a very different vision of the 20th century emerges, one that offers an intimate chronicle of black radicalism.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It’s worth sticking with the awful narration
- By Anonymous User on 15-02-21
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Song of Solomon
- A Novel
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4 out of 5 stars 77
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Missing sections and strange dubs
- By Lisa Daniels on 01-05-14
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Manifesto
- By: Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 110
Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and activist, she moved from the margins to centre stage, taking her place in the spotlight at last. Her journey was a long one, but she made it, and she made history. Manifesto is Bernardine Evaristo's intimate and inspirational no-holds-barred account of how she did it, refusing to let any barriers stand in her way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspirational
- By Rashida on 24-11-21
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Ballet Shoes
- A Story of Three Children on the Stage (A Puffin Book)
- By: Noel Streatfeild
- Narrated by: Janet Streatfeild
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 75
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Story5 out of 5 stars 78
Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild, read by Janet Streatfeild. 'I wonder...if other girls had to be one of us, which of us they'd choose to be?' Pauline longs to be an actress. Petrova is happiest playing with cars and engines. And if she could...Posy would dance all day! But when their benefactor Great-Uncle Matthew disappears, the Fossil girls share a future of a dazzling life onstage, where their dreams and fears will soon come true....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story, badly narrated
- By Isabel de Bertodano on 04-11-18
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Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
- Dynamic Techniques for Turning Fear, Indecision, and Anger into Power, Action, and Love
- By: Susan Jeffers PhD
- Narrated by: Susan Jeffers PhD
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 636
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 506
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 503
Does fear keep you from jumping into life with energy and excitement? Fear seems to be epidemic in our society. We fear changing plans, we fear staying stuck. We fear failure, we fear success. Whatever your fears, this classic guide will give you concrete tools and insights to improve your ability to handle any situation life throws at you. Best-selling author Susan Jeffers' timeless teachings live on in this work, based on the same techniques she used in her own life to experience more strength, peace, and joy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not for Me
- By Anonymous User on 17-11-21
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Ruby Dee
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 261
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 261
Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic story
- By juanita on 10-12-19
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The Underground Railroad
- By: Colson Whitehead
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,309
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,157
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,152
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Approach with caution - it's historical fiction..
- By Tom on 14-02-19
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She Would Be King
- A Novel
- By: Wayétu Moore
- Narrated by: Wayétu Moore
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating piece of art
- By RL on 02-06-20
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Kindred
- By: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrated by: Kim Staunton
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 559
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 486
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Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning White boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes she's been given a challenge.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Horror Story
- By Linton Edwards on 16-02-21
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The Man Who Died Twice
- Thursday Murder Club, Book 2
- By: Richard Osman
- Narrated by: Lesley Manville, Richard Osman
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11,000
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,914
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9,882
It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster and a very real threat to his life. As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds, too? Well, wouldn't that be a bonus? But this time, they are up against an enemy who wouldn't bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Book I’ve EVER Listened to… BY FAR!
- By Tally Pendragon on 24-09-21
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The Thursday Murder Club
- Thursday Murder Club, Book 1
- By: Richard Osman
- Narrated by: Lesley Manville, Richard Osman, Marian Keyes
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17,861
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15,664
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15,633
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings. But when a local property developer shows up dead, 'The Thursday Murder Club' finds themselves in the middle of their first live case. The four friends, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron, might be octogenarians, but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Oh WHAT a disappointment!
- By mollyeyre on 03-09-20
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It Ends with Us
- By: Colleen Hoover
- Narrated by: Olivia Song
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,951
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,448
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,450
Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Cheesy teenage novel
- By Amazon Customer on 25-08-21
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Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
- By: Stephen Fry - introductions, Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 71 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 15,711
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14,199
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Story5 out of 5 stars 14,139
Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the complete works of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and five collections of short stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant audio book, shame about the navigation.
- By PJM on 10-03-17
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Three Women
- By: Lisa Taddeo
- Narrated by: Lisa Taddeo, Tara Lynne Barr, Marin Ireland, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,611
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,394
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,384
The international number one best seller. All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous - with some caveats
- By Zebra Karma on 13-09-19
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The Secret Garden
- By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Narrated by: Carrie Hope Fletcher
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,390
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,241
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,239
Mary Lennox starts her life as an unhappy victim of circumstance. After the loss of her parents, she moves to rural Yorkshire to live with a distant uncle where she resents the wildness of the countryside. At first, she struggles to find a place in this new existence. Although unsure about her surroundings and its occupants, through the gentle guidance of the maid she gradually becomes interested in the story of Mrs Craven, who apparently used to spend her time in a garden at the house, the key to which has vanished.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Shame about the audio
- By SmithA on 13-06-20
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The Stand
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 47 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,794
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8,549
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,537
First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms. For hundreds of thousands of fans who read The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift.
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5 out of 5 stars
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King's greatest novel
- By CSR DoughnutPeach on 27-07-12
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Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
- Agatha Raisin, Book 1
- By: M. C. Beaton
- Narrated by: Penelope Keith
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,804
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,615
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,614
Meet Agatha Raisin, high-flying public relations boss turned village sleuth. After her many years of bullying and cajoling others, her early retirement to a picture-perfect village in the Cotswolds is a dream come true.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Laugh out loud
- By Louise on 03-07-13
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The Beatrix Potter Collection
- By: Beatrix Potter
- Narrated by: Andrew Scott, Patricia Routledge - introduction
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 348
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 299
The Beatrix Potter Collection is perfect for introducing a new generation to the magic of her adored classic stories. Featuring her much-loved children’s tales and showcasing some of the most recognisable characters in English literature, it will enthral and entertain young listeners whilst providing warm nostalgia for those already acquainted.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Inappropriate extras
- By JJ on 17-08-19
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The Snow Goose
- By: Paul Gallico
- Narrated by: Steve Mackintosh, Georgia Groome, Deborah Findlay, and others
- Length: 57 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story5 out of 5 stars 52
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Paul Gallico’s The Snow Goose by Nick Warburton, starring Steven Mackintosh.
When Open Book asked various authors to champion a favourite neglected classic on the programme, Michael Morpurgo chose The Snow Goose - perhaps no surprise, with his own story 'War Horse' depicting a friendship between a boy and his horse which takes them both into the horror of World War I.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Atmospheric and touching
- By Peanut on 25-12-12
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England, Their England
- By: A. G. Macdonell
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4 out of 5 stars 13
Donald Cameron, a young Scotsman, is commissioned to write a book on the outsider's view of the English. He sets about his task with enthusiasm, encountering along the way an array of richly comical characters including civil servants, newspaper editors, minor poets, a glamourous movie star, politicians, and many more. This satire of English eccentricity has become a classic of 20th century literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A masterpiece
- By Button Shiner on 28-08-19
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A Confederacy of Dunces
- By: John Kennedy Toole
- Narrated by: Reginald D. Hunter
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 127
A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern—this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Waited years for this to become an audiobook
- By james edwards on 02-08-22
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The Ballad of Peckham Rye
- By: Muriel Spark
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 36
When the firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley hires Dougal Douglas (a.k.a. Douglas Dougal) to do "human research" into the private lives of its workforce, they are in no way prepared for the mayhem, mutiny, and murder he will stir up. In fact, this Music Man of the thoroughly modern corporation changes the lives of all the eccentric characters he meets, from Miss Merle Coverdale, head of the typing pool, to V.R. Druce, unsuspecting Managing Director.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dougal Douglas comes to town
- By L on 21-10-16
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Titus Groan
- Gormenghast Trilogy
- By: Mervyn Peake
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 437
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 396
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As the first novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born: he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual, lost in history, understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library. There are tears and strange laughter; fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings; dreams and violence and disenchantment contained within a labyrinth of stone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unique
- By K on 28-09-16
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Will
- By: Will Smith, Mark Manson
- Narrated by: Will Smith
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8,684
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7,825
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7,784
One of the most dynamic and globally recognised entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of one of the most amazing rides through the worlds of music and film that anyone has ever had.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A love letter to himself
- By Sarah on 17-11-21
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Greg the Sausage Roll: Santa's Little Helper
- By: Mark Hoyle, Roxanne Hoyle
- Narrated by: Mark Hoyle, Roxanne Hoyle
- Length: 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story5 out of 5 stars 24
The tinsel is up in the bakery, the lights are twinkling and the mince pies are sold out. It's Christmas Eve! Greg the Sausage Roll is so excited he could burst. And when he's scooped up as a last-minute treat for Santa, he's catapulted into a magical festive caper beyond his wildest dreams. Hold on tight for a spectacular sausage roll-er coaster of an adventure!
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5 out of 5 stars
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SausageTastic
- By Rae on 30-11-21
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
- (A Puffin Book)
- By: Hans Christian Andersen
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming, Nigel Davenport, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
Download eight timeless audio tales from a magical storyteller. This enchanting collection, retold by writer and critic Naomi Lewis, contains eight of Hans Christian Andersen’s magnificent fairy tales. It includes Thumbelina, a little girl no more than a thumb-joint high, The Emperor’s New Clothes, the tale of a man who cares only for his appearance and The Little Mermaid, who longs to one day marry a human prince.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Buy the CD Instead
- By James on 28-05-11
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The Female Eunuch
- By: Germaine Greer
- Narrated by: Germaine Greer
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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A worldwide best seller, translated into more than 12 languages, The Female Eunuch is a landmark in the history of the women’s movement. Drawing liberally from history, literature and popular culture, past and present, Germaine Greer’s searing examination of women’s oppression is at once an important social commentary and a passionately argued masterpiece of polemic. Probably the most famous, most widely read book on feminism ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal
- By Amazon Customer on 16-01-24
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Book 1
- By: J.K. Rowling
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 42,036
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36,217
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Story5 out of 5 stars 36,157
Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfectly Fryed Potter
- By Simon on 20-11-15
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Daughters of Nri
- By: Reni K. Amayo
- Narrated by: Weruche Opia
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 305
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A gruesome war results in the old gods' departure from earth. The only remnants of their existence lie in two girls. Twins, separated at birth. Goddesses who grow up believing that they are human. Daughters of Nri explores their epic journey of self-discovery as they embark on a path back to one another. Strong-willed Naala grows up seeking adventure in her quiet and small village. While the more reserved Sinai resides in the cold and political palace of Nri.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great little treasure
- By zulu on 05-01-21
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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Weruche Opia
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Ever wondered how we got from nothing to something? Or thought about how we can weigh the earth? Or wanted to reach the edge of the universe? Uncover the mysteries of time, space and life on earth in this extraordinary book - a journey from the centre of the planet to the dawn of the dinosaurs and everything in between. And discover our own incredible journey, from single cell to civilisation, including the brilliant (and sometimes very bizarre) scientists who helped us find out the how and why.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but not well delivered
- By MR J HARVEY on 23-11-20
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Daddy's Girls
- By: Danielle Steel
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Decades ago, after the death of his wife, Texas ranch hand JT Tucker took his three small daughters to California to start a new life. With almost no money, a will of iron, and hard work, he eventually built the biggest ranch in California. But when he dies suddenly at the age of 64, the ranch is inherited by his three daughters - each of them finding it impossible to believe that this larger-than-life figure is gone from their lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good story
- By Susan Halliday on 28-12-20
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Americanah
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,706
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,186
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,184
As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America, where Obinze hopes to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life-changing
- By Diana John on 02-06-13
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The Book of Echoes
- By: Rosanna Amaka
- Narrated by: Weruche Opia
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narrated by the soul of an enslaved African woman, this is a searing debut novel about hope, redemption and the scars of history. Over 200 years ago in Africa, a woman tosses her young son to safety as she is hauled away by slavers. After a brutal sea passage, her second child, a baby girl, is snatched away. Although the woman doesn’t know it yet, her spirit is destined to roam the earth in search of her lost children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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just brilliant
- By Tony Cisse on 17-05-20
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,039
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,835
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,830
Written and read by the author, Empire of Pain tells the story of the Sackler dynasty, their company Purdue Pharma, its bestselling drug OxyContin, their immensely generous philanthropy and their involvement in the opioid crisis that has created millions of addicts, even as it generated billions of dollars in profit.
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1 out of 5 stars
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An angry, populist, gossipy book that doesn’t engage seriously with the issues
- By Megan on 01-07-21
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Magpie
- By: Elizabeth Day
- Narrated by: Tanya Reynolds
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,458
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,283
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,274
In Jake, Marisa has found everything she’s ever wanted. Then their new lodger, Kate, arrives. Something about Kate isn’t right. Is it the way she looks at Marisa’s boyfriend? Sits too close on the sofa? Constantly asks about the baby they are trying for? Or is it all just in Marisa’s head? After all, that’s what her Jake keeps telling her, and she trusts him - doesn’t she? But Marisa knows something is wrong. That the woman sleeping in their house will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Marisa just doesn’t know why.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good read
- By Muireall A. Urchadan on 07-09-21
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The Paper Palace
- By: Miranda Cowley Heller
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,503
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,327
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,324
On a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the pond below 'The Paper Palace'—her family's holiday home in Cape Cod. As she dives beneath the water she relives the passionate encounter she had the night before, against the side of the house that knows all her darkest secrets, while her husband and mother chatted to their guests inside.... So begins a story that unfolds over 24 hours and 50 years, as Elle's shocking betrayal leads her to a life-changing decision—and an ending you won't be able to stop thinking about.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don’t waste your life
- By S. Maguire on 10-08-21
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Gangsta Granny Strikes Again!
- By: David Walliams
- Narrated by: David Walliams, Harry Enfield, Teresa Gallagher, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 533
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 433
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Ben is getting used to life without his beloved granny. She was a cabbage enthusiast, a Scrabble partner...and an international jewel thief known as the Black Cat. Now, only the memory of their extraordinary adventure to steal the Crown Jewels lives on. Then something inexplicable happens. World-famous treasures are stolen in the dead of night and the clues point to none other than...the Black Cat? Expect the unexpected in this adventure, which will have listeners on the edge of their seats as they join Ben on his quest to unravel the mystery of the return of the Black Cat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- By Anonymous User on 24-11-21
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The Eye of the World
- Wheel of Time, Book 1
- By: Robert Jordan
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
- Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,548
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,600
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,582
When their village is attacked by trollocs, monsters thought to be only legends, three young men, Rand, Matt, and Perrin, flee in the company of the Lady Moiraine, a sinister visitor of unsuspected powers. Thus begins an epic adventure set in a world of wonders and horror, where what was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
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1 out of 5 stars
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American narration such a turn off
- By Simon Corke on 22-04-20
What listeners say about The Graham Norton Book Club (Series 2)
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- Eliza Tosi
- 12-11-21
Love you Graham
I enjoy this podcast so much - it’s really refreshing to hear a group of people honestly dissect a recent book, whether or not they enjoyed it, when many other podcasts are too in thrall to the author to be able to give any genuine critiques (which is no fun for the listener!) Graham is charming as ever and Sara Collins’ input is always interesting and funny too.
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- 21-11-21
Love Love Love!
Love the book club. started listening as was in need of inspiration and have binged all episodes!
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- 28-01-23
Even better than series 1
This is my favourite podcast. A really entertaining listen and lots of inspiration for new reads
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- Kindle Customer
- 28-10-21
Graham + Books
Graham Norton and lots of nice people talking about books. What's not to love? A must for any Bookworm.
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- Christine
- 25-10-21
I am delighted that Graham Norton's book club is b
What a delight to have the second series of the brilliant Graham Norton book club. I discovered so many new books and authors that I have since purchased and look forward to discovering more in this new series. Graham is relaxed, witty and knowledgeable, reviewers are diverse and interesting and the insight from the authors is fascinating. A great format, well done and thank you.
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- juozas kasiulis
- 06-11-21
Great listen
Very enjoyable and informative podcast. It is nice to hear about new audiobooks and other people opinions about books🙂
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- 08-01-22
Here's Hoping for Series 3
I love both series and it has led me to several books I wouldn't have read or listened to otherwise or even have heard of. The format works really well with club members giving honest opinions positive and negative. I really hope there will be further series in the future
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- Doctina
- 26-11-21
a wonderful find
I stumbled across this just as the second series was about to start.
Not only is this a wonderful listen; Norton is hugely entertaining and his love of reading shines through, but the books covered are great.
Yes, I have read or listened to several of the Clubbers' choices.
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- Adriana
- 23-11-21
Great podcast to inspire your reading
Very inspiring podcast. A very good mix of readers who all bring their own tastes to the club. All opinions and experiences of regular books and audiobooks are valid and valued, and had a giggle about of course.
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- ClareR
- 18-01-22
Always a joy!
I love Graham Norton's book club - please bring back another series! I've read so many books off the back of this, and love hearing about the books I've already read.
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