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How to Stop Time
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to jazz age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot and now craves an ordinary life. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London comprehensive. Here he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he'd never witnessed them firsthand.
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love it
- By Toni-Louise Hamilton on 20-07-17
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How to Stop Time
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 06-07-17
- Language: English
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Half of a Yellow Sun
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Zainab Jah
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
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Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined.
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In my living memory
- By julie on 19-10-17
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Half of a Yellow Sun
- Narrated by: Zainab Jah
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 28-09-17
- Language: English
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Kane and Abel
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
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Kane & Abel for a new generation!!
They had only one thing in common - William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant. Two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths were destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune.
The marvellous story, spanning 60 years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save - and finally destroy - each other.
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Superb listen
- By josephine on 05-06-13
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Kane and Abel
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Series: Kane & Abel, Book 1
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 20-10-09
- Language: English
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The Goldfinch
- By: Donna Tartt
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 32 hrs and 25 mins
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Aged 13, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld.
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Like watching a runaway train....
- By Robyn on 18-10-14
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The Goldfinch
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 32 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 22-10-13
- Language: English
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One Day
- By: David Nicholls
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
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He is Dexter Mayhew, tall, dark, and (she can't deny it) handsome. She is Emma Morley, bottled red hair, wilfully badly dressed, all principles and no action. Could this be the dawn of the rest of their lives? Or are Dex and Em living proof that - despite an unlikely beginning - men and women really can be just good friends?
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You'll laugh, you'll cry.
- By Charles on 09-12-09
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One Day
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-12-09
- Language: English
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The Way of Shadows: Night Angel Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Brent Weeks
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
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The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the city’s most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he’s grown up in the slums, and learned the hard way to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.
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Not Grimdark, but a good start to a series
- By GhostMuppet on 13-07-14
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The Way of Shadows: Night Angel Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Series: Night Angel Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-07-11
- Language: English
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When We Cease to Understand the World
- By: Benjamín Labatut
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. A Guardian Fiction Book of the year. Sometimes discovery brings destruction. "When We Cease to Understand the World" shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness.
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Rambling and unfocused
- By Mooncoin on 10-03-22
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When We Cease to Understand the World
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 10-12-21
- Language: English
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Four Letters of Love
- By: Niall Williams
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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'When I was 12 years old God spoke to my father for the first time. God didn't say much. He told my father to be a painter and left it at that.... ' So begins Niall Williams' magical tale about love and destiny. Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore were made for each other - but fate doesn't always take the easiest or the most obvious route to true love. For a start, Nicholas and Isabel have never met and nor are they likely to, without some kind of divine intervention. But as God, ghosts, a series of coincidences and seemingly chance events and encounters conspire to bring the couple together.
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A dream like story read brilliantly.
- By Marvellous Maud on 15-07-17
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Four Letters of Love
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 08-05-14
- Language: English
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Milkman
- By: Anna Burns
- Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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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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Very, Very Good
- By David M on 20-10-18
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Milkman
- Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 13-06-18
- Language: English
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The Stationery Shop of Tehran
- By: Marjan Kamali
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the local stationery shop run by Mr. Fakhri. The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles and thick pads of writing paper, also carries translations of literature from all over the world. And when Mr. Fakhri introduces her to his other favorite customer - handsome Bahman, with his burning passion for justice and a shared love for Rumi's poetry - Roya loses her heart at once. But around them, life in Tehran is changing. On the eve of their marriage, Roya heads to the town square to meet with Bahman.
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Beautiful story & writing - not great narrator.
- By Eliza Conquest on 01-03-21
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The Stationery Shop of Tehran
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 28-11-19
- Language: English
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The Offing
- By: Benjamin Myers
- Narrated by: Ralph Ineson
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham village. Sixteen and the son of a coal miner, he makes his way across the northern countryside until he reaches the former smuggling village of Robin Hood’s Bay. There he meets Dulcie, an eccentric, worldly, older woman who lives in a ramshackle cottage facing out to sea. Staying with Dulcie, Robert’s life opens into one of rich food, sea swimming, sunburn and poetry.
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Lyrical, intimate story of an unlikely friendship
- By WhatCathyReadNext on 01-07-20
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The Offing
- Narrated by: Ralph Ineson
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 16-10-19
- Language: English
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Brother of the More Famous Jack
- By: Barbara Trapido
- Narrated by: Jan Francis
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Bright, stylish Katherine is offered a place to study philosophy by Jacob Goldman. She little expects to find herself in the Goldmans' home, a rambling house in Sussex, while Jacob's untidy but enchanting wife Jane gives birth to their sixth child, little Rosie does headstands, stroppy Jonathan goes off fishing and Roger wins her heart by playing beautiful music on his violin. Katherine and Roger embark on a love affair that ends in tears and she leaves for Rome.
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Briiliant book, brilliant reading
- By Carolyn on 25-06-09
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Brother of the More Famous Jack
- Narrated by: Jan Francis
- Series: Brother, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 05-08-08
- Language: English
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The Black Dress
- By: Deborah Moggach
- Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Pru's husband has walked out, leaving her alone to contemplate her future. She's missing not so much him, but the life they once had - picnicking on the beach with small children, laughing together, nestling up like spoons in the cutlery drawer as they sleep. Now there's just a dip on one side of the bed and no one to fill it. In a daze, Pru goes off to a friend's funeral. Usual old hymns, words of praise and a eulogy but...it doesn't sound like the friend Pru knew. And it isn't. She's gone to the wrong service.
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How true are truths?
- By Rachel Redford on 02-08-21
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The Black Dress
- Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 22-07-21
- Language: English
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Skagboys
- By: Irvine Welsh
- Narrated by: Tam Dean Burn
- Length: 24 hrs and 48 mins
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Mark Renton has it all: He's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s.Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and he succumbs to the defeatism which has taken hold in Edinburgh's grimmer areas.
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F*#@ing Barry!!
- By F Gibb on 30-05-14
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Skagboys
- Narrated by: Tam Dean Burn
- Series: Mark Renton, Book 1
- Length: 24 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 03-05-12
- Language: English
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The Secret Scripture
- By: Sebastian Barry
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Nearing her 100th birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital where's she spent most of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks with her psychiatrist, Dr. Greene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful.
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Intriguing story with exceptional narration
- By Trixie on 26-07-15
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The Secret Scripture
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
- Series: McNulty Family
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 14-11-08
- Language: English
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Last Letter from Your Lover
- By: Jojo Moyes
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband.... In 1960, Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident with no memory. And then, when she returns home, she uncovers a hidden letter, and begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for.
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Good story but didn't enjoy the narration.
- By J on 18-03-12
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Last Letter from Your Lover
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-11-10
- Language: English
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Lanny
- By: Max Porter
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington, Clare Corbett, David Timson, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present. It belongs to Mad Pete, the grizzled artist. To ancient Peggy, gossiping at her gate. To families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort who has woken from his slumber in the woods. Dead Papa Toothwort, who is listening to them all.
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Clever Stuff That Took Me Out Of My Comfort Zone!
- By Simon on 08-03-19
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Lanny
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington, Clare Corbett, David Timson, Jot Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 07-03-19
- Language: English
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Best Kept Secret: Clifton Chronicles, Book 3
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor’s deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her father’s office on the night he was killed. When the General Election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat
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Good listen!!
- By josephine on 18-06-13
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Best Kept Secret: Clifton Chronicles, Book 3
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Series: Clifton Chronicles, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 14-03-13
- Language: English
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The Girl You Left Behind
- By: Jojo Moyes
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Penelope Rawlins
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
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France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre is ordered to serve the German officers who socialise in her hotel. When the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie's portrait - painted by her husband Edouard - a dangerous obsession is born. Almost a century later, Sophie's portrait hangs in the home of Liv Halston. A chance encounter reveals the painting's true worth - and its troubled history that is about to resurface and turn Liv's life upside down…
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Spellbinding - I loved it
- By Happy and Smiling on 16-02-13
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The Girl You Left Behind
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Penelope Rawlins
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 27-09-12
- Language: English
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Diary of an Oxygen Thief
- By: anonymous
- Narrated by: anonymous
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant, and somehow they met in bright lights, big city. He was blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending audiobook but, above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.
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just go to therapy
- By Anonymous User on 14-05-22
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Diary of an Oxygen Thief
- Narrated by: anonymous
- Series: The Diaries of an Oxygen Thief, Book 1
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 25-08-16
- Language: English
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