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The Bell Jar
- By: Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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When Esther Greenwood wins an internship at a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer....
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This is not unabridged
- By Mr N J Filer on 01-08-15
By: Sylvia Plath
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Essays in Love
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story....
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Don't 'read' when your heart is breaking
- By Jeffiner Mitchell on 27-11-16
By: Alain de Botton
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Cabin Pressure
- Zurich: The BBC Radio 4 airline
- By: John Finnemore
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cole, Full Cast, Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 55 mins
- Original Recording
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The complete finale of the hit BBC Radio 4 sitcom- 2 episodes. Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and prayer world of a tiny, one-plane airline....
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Brilliant!!!!!!
- By SARA JANE RATHBONE on 01-02-15
By: John Finnemore
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Christmas in Peppercorn Street
- By: Anna Jacobs
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Christmas is approaching, but the mood on Peppercorn Street is anything but jolly. Claire is convinced her stalker ex will catch up with her and her young daughter, and Luke is finding that living with his estranged teenage daughter brings its own problems....
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Wonderful series.
- By Lulu19 on 05-05-24
By: Anna Jacobs
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Wicked!
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot....
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I am no prude but this is all about under age sex
- By Bella H on 22-11-19
By: Jilly Cooper
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The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew
- By: Milly Johnson
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Sophie Mayhew looks like she has the perfect life. Wife of rising political star John F Mayhew, a man who is one step away from the top job in the government, her glamour matches his looks, power, breeding and money....
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Absolutely fabulous
- By Mrs J ramsdale on 09-03-19
By: Milly Johnson
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The Bell Jar
- By: Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship at a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer....
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This is not unabridged
- By Mr N J Filer on 01-08-15
By: Sylvia Plath
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Essays in Love
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story....
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Don't 'read' when your heart is breaking
- By Jeffiner Mitchell on 27-11-16
By: Alain de Botton
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Cabin Pressure
- Zurich: The BBC Radio 4 airline
- By: John Finnemore
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cole, Full Cast, Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
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The complete finale of the hit BBC Radio 4 sitcom- 2 episodes. Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and prayer world of a tiny, one-plane airline....
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Brilliant!!!!!!
- By SARA JANE RATHBONE on 01-02-15
By: John Finnemore
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Christmas in Peppercorn Street
- By: Anna Jacobs
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Christmas is approaching, but the mood on Peppercorn Street is anything but jolly. Claire is convinced her stalker ex will catch up with her and her young daughter, and Luke is finding that living with his estranged teenage daughter brings its own problems....
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Wonderful series.
- By Lulu19 on 05-05-24
By: Anna Jacobs
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Wicked!
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot....
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I am no prude but this is all about under age sex
- By Bella H on 22-11-19
By: Jilly Cooper
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The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew
- By: Milly Johnson
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Sophie Mayhew looks like she has the perfect life. Wife of rising political star John F Mayhew, a man who is one step away from the top job in the government, her glamour matches his looks, power, breeding and money....
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Absolutely fabulous
- By Mrs J ramsdale on 09-03-19
By: Milly Johnson
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Appassionata
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 5
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 29 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the loneliest and the most exploited girl in the world....
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Audio narration oddly stilted
- By Amazon Customer on 23-05-20
By: Jilly Cooper
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Significant Others
- Tales of the City, Book 5
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Tranquility reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class....
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So many characters...
- By Sophie on 22-04-21
By: Armistead Maupin
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New Beginnings
- By: Fern Britton
- Narrated by: Fern Britton
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A warm, witty and wise debut about the ups and downs of life as a TV presenter....
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New Beginnings
- By heather on 18-04-11
By: Fern Britton
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This is Me
- By: Shari Low
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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This is... Denise. Married to Ray, her first and only love, Denise has never, for one moment, regretted putting the husband she idolised on...
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Voices were fabulous, so well read
- By MRS K. on 06-04-24
By: Shari Low
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Veiller sur elle - Prix Goncourt 2023
- By: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
- Narrated by: Léo Dussolier, Lila Tamazit
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Au grand jeu du destin, Mimo a tiré les mauvaises cartes. Né pauvre, il est confié en apprentissage à un sculpteur de pierre sans envergure. Mais il a du...
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Fantastic!
- By madeleine on 31-03-24
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Gittersee
- By: Charlotte Gneuß
- Narrated by: Lisa Hrdina
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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1976, im Dresdner Vorort Gittersee: Karin ist 16, hütet ihre kleine Schwester und hilft der renitenten Großmutter im Haushalt, die ihrer Zeit als...
By: Charlotte Gneuß
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The Patron Saint of Lost Souls
- By: Menna van Praag
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Jude is the owner of a unique antiques shop in Cambridge. She makes it her mission to match customers with the special something that they are missing, a talisman to bring them what their heart desires....
By: Menna van Praag
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Last Friends
- By: Jane Gardam
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC....
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Jane will transport you to another time & place making you wish you knew the characters personally
- By barbara on 26-11-17
By: Jane Gardam
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Time and Time Again
- By: Ben Elton
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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It’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth....
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Rip roaring good yarn
- By Linda on 05-02-15
By: Ben Elton
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The Dandelion Years
- By: Erica James
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory, Lee Maxwell Simpson
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Ashcombe was the most beautiful house Saskia had ever seen as a little girl, providing a perfect sanctuary to hide from the tragedy which shattered her childhood....
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Lovely story nicely read
- By Mr S Gregory on 30-06-15
By: Erica James
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Leuchtfeuer
- By: Dani Shapiro, Ulrike Wasel - Übersetzer, Klaus Timmermann - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Julian Horeyseck
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Eine Sommernacht 1985: In einem Vorort von New York steigen drei betrunkene Teenager in ein Auto - und nichts ist mehr wie zuvor. Die Geschwister...
By: Dani Shapiro, and others
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A Short Stay in Hell
- By: Steven L. Peck
- Narrated by: Sergei Burbank
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter....
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Meaning in chaos?
- By Linguistic Mystic on 05-09-22
By: Steven L. Peck
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Tales of the City
- Tales of the City, Book 1
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Frances McDormand
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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For more than three decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture....
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Return to this old favourite
- By Jockette61 on 31-07-15
By: Armistead Maupin
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The Black Dress
- By: Deborah Moggach
- Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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How true are truths?
- By Rachel Redford on 02-08-21
By: Deborah Moggach
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Miss Buncle's Book
- By: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The plot centres round Miss Barbara Buncle, a maiden lady who was obliged to write a book because – as she naively explained – her dividends were so poor....
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A very English book
- By Cornish Kanny on 11-06-10
By: D. E. Stevenson
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The Broken Man
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man....
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A must have audio book
- By osteo1 on 16-11-20
By: Josephine Cox
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The Beating of His Wings
- By: Paul Hoffman
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomas Cale has been running from the truth....
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Satisfying ending...
- By Robyn on 12-01-14
By: Paul Hoffman
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How to Fall In Love Again
- By: Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Carolyn Bonnyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Kitty knows better than most that the twists and turns of life can bring joy, despair and everything in between. But when she was a little girl, she had hoped for more. She dreamed of finding her true soul mate. Someone to laugh with, cry with and share her twilight years....
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nice
- By Polly Curtis on 09-04-22
By: Amanda Prowse