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Damned
- By: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a marijuana overdose - and the next thing she knows, she’s in Hell.
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Damned
- By James Patrick Quinn on 24-06-24
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Damned
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
- Series: Damned, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 12-10-21
- Language: English
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Jailbird
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Walter Starbuck, a career humanist and eventual low-level aide in the Nixon White House, is implicated in Watergate and jailed, after which he (like Howard Campbell in Mother Night) works on his memoirs. Starbuck is innocent (his office was used as a base for the Watergate shenanigans of which he had no knowledge), and yet he is not innocent (he has collaborated with power unquestioningly and served societal order all his life). He represents another Vonnegut Everyman caught amongst forces he neither understands nor can defend.
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Interesting perspective still relevant today
- By oliver on 03-07-21
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Jailbird
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-11-15
- Language: English
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Darling
- By: India Knight
- Narrated by: Sophie Winkleman
- Length: 8 hrs
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Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for love, but how will she ever find it? She can't even get a signal on her mobile phone. Linda's strict, former rock star father terrifies any potential suitors away, while her bohemian mother, wafting around in silver jewellery, answers Linda's urgent questions about love with upsettingly vivid allusions to animal husbandry.
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Great story, well narrated - badly edited
- By EJ Martin on 31-12-22
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Darling
- Narrated by: Sophie Winkleman
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 20-10-22
- Language: English
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Madness
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Adrian Scarborough, Andrew Scott, Cillian Murphy, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected audiobook of his darkest stories, read by Juliet Stevenson, Cillian Murphy, Adrian Scarborough, Tamsin Greig, Stephanie Beacham and Andrew Scott. 'There is a pleasure sure in being mad, which none but madmen know.' Our greatest fear is of losing control - of our lives, but, most of all, of ourselves. In these 10 unsettling tales of unexpected madness master storyteller Roald Dahl explores what happens when we let go our sanity.
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Incredible, macabre, great performances
- By CaWa on 27-11-16
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Madness
- Narrated by: Adrian Scarborough, Andrew Scott, Cillian Murphy, Juliet Stevenson, Stephanie Beacham, Tamsin Greig
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 18-08-16
- Language: English
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The Accidental Tourist
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? With the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone. A heartfelt novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amateur Marriage and Breathing Lessons, now available as an audiobook.
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A life gently told
- By Sheila Branch on 07-03-15
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The Accidental Tourist
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 22-05-14
- Language: English
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The Lectures
- By: Mark Steel
- Narrated by: Mark Steel
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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"The subjects of this audio programme - Lord Byron, Aristotle, Billie Holiday and Che Guevara - are classic examples of the flawed, brilliant, courageous, slightly barking, but beautifully human characters from history that can inspire the rest of us, which you certainly won't get from looking at our current leaders. It's unlikely, for example, that anyone has ever said, 'The man who really inspires me is Jack Straw.'" (Mark Steel)
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Dont bother
- By Matthew on 08-09-12
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The Lectures
- Narrated by: Mark Steel
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Release date: 04-04-07
- Language: English
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Die Känguru-Offenbarung
- Live und ungekürzt
- By: Marc-Uwe Kling
- Narrated by: Marc-Uwe Kling
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Endlich: Es geht weiter! Nach dem Manifest folgt die Offenbarung! Hier kommt die fulminante Fortsetzung der Fortsetzung: der "Känguru-Chroniken" dritter Teil. Das Beuteltier und der Kleinkünstler auf der Jagd nach dem mysteriösen Pinguin. Haltet euch bereit.
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Ich habe mich gerade in der U8 totgelacht
- By MadScientist on 09-03-24
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Die Känguru-Offenbarung
- Live und ungekürzt
- Narrated by: Marc-Uwe Kling
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-03-14
- Language: German
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QI: The Sound of General Ignorance
- By: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
- Narrated by: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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Listen and learn! The Sound of General Ignorance brings you all the best bits of the number one bestseller The Book of General Ignorance in handy audio form. Allow yourself to wallow in the misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in 'common knowledge'. Your newfound wisdom will help you to impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and win every argument.
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Believe it or not?
- By Raisa on 29-07-19
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QI: The Sound of General Ignorance
- Narrated by: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 18-04-13
- Language: English
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The Red Notebook
- By: Antoine Laurain
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there's all sorts of other things in it. Laurent feels a strong impulse to find the owner and tries to puzzle together who she might be from the contents of the bag. Especially a red notebook with her jottings, which really makes him want to meet her. Without even a name to go on, and only a few of her possessions to help him, how is he to find one woman in a city of millions?
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enjoyable
- By LydiaG on 02-04-17
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The Red Notebook
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 29-11-16
- Language: English
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Thank You, Jeeves
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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No longer in master Bertie Wooster’s employ, Jeeves is engaged with a new employer, Lord "Chuffy" Chuffnell, an old friend of Bertie’s. True to form, thus follows a supreme comedy of errors which is guaranteed to raise many a chortle, as Wooster travels to one of Chuffy’s cottages in Dorset to carry on his banjolele practice in (dubious) peace.
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Unacceptable language for these times.
- By Michael Citroen on 18-03-18
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Thank You, Jeeves
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Series: Jeeves & Wooster, Book 5
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 21-02-11
- Language: English
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Pygmy
- By: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrated by: Nick Walther
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.” Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism.
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Pygmy
- Narrated by: Nick Walther
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-10-21
- Language: English
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God Is Disappointed in You
- By: Mark Russell, Shannon Wheeler
- Narrated by: James Urbaniak
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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God Is Disappointed in You is for people who would like to read the Bible...if it would just cut to the chase. Stripped of its arcane language and interminable passages, every book of the Bible is condensed down to its core message, in no more than a few pages each. Written by Mark Russell with cartoons by New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler, God Is Disappointed in You is a frequently hilarious, often shocking, but always accurate retelling of the Bible, including the parts selectively left out by Sunday School teachers.
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Divine
- By Emma on 21-04-16
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God Is Disappointed in You
- Narrated by: James Urbaniak
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 22-07-14
- Language: English
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Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
- Adrian Mole, Book 5
- By: Sue Townsend
- Narrated by: Adrian Gray
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Adrian Mole is thirty, single and a father. His cooking at a top London restaurant has been equally mocked ('the sausage on my plate could have been a turd') and celebrated (will he be the nation's first celebrity offal chef?) And the love of his life, Pandora Braithwaite, is too busy as the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch to notice him. Frustrated, disappointed, and undersexed, Adrian despairs until a letter from his past changes everything.
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Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
- Adrian Mole, Book 5
- Narrated by: Adrian Gray
- Series: Adrian Mole, Book 5
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 18-07-24
- Language: English
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Fat Girl Slim
- By: Marina Johnson
- Narrated by: Sarah Cullum
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Fat and friendless, carer to her mother by day and a secret binge eater by night, 28-year-old Alison hates her life. She feels powerless to help herself until one day she encounters the person she would like to be and determines to transform herself. Admiration soon turns to obsession, and as Alison loses weight she discovers she’s capable of things she never imagined. Will she get the life she desires or the life she deserves?
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What on Earth is this book?
- By Anonymous on 08-11-20
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Fat Girl Slim
- Narrated by: Sarah Cullum
- Series: Fat Girl Slim, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-03-19
- Language: English
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The Lie of the Land
- By: Amanda Craig
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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Quentin and Lottie Bredin, like many modern couples, can't afford to divorce. Having lost their jobs in the recession, they can't afford to go on living in London; instead, they must downsize and move their three children to a house in a remote part of Devon. Arrogant and adulterous, Quentin can't understand why Lottie is so angry; devastated and humiliated, Lottie feels herself to have been intolerably wounded. Mud, mice and quarrels are one thing - but why is their rent so low?
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Excellent yet exhaustingly middle class...
- By the typist on 26-07-20
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The Lie of the Land
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-02-18
- Language: English
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Grumpy Old Men
- The Official Handbook
- By: Stuart Prebble
- Narrated by: Arthur Smith
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
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For years they thought it was just them. Irritated and tormented by everything around them from call centres to nose studs, from speed bumps to ring tones. Then along came the BBC2 series Grumpy Old Men, and the subsequent best-selling book, and they knew they were not alone.
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Laugh out loud funny....
- By Alan on 29-06-22
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Grumpy Old Men
- The Official Handbook
- Narrated by: Arthur Smith
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 18-04-05
- Language: English
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You Have Arrived at Your Destination
- Forward collection
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: David Harbour
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next step in trying to help their future child get a “leg up” in a competitive world. But the more Sam considers the lives that his child could lead, the more he begins to question his own relationships and the choices he has made in his life.
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Well, that was depressing
- By Diane Severson on 05-12-19
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You Have Arrived at Your Destination
- Forward collection
- Narrated by: David Harbour
- Series: Forward Collection
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 17-09-19
- Language: English
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Survivor
- By: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Tender Branson - last surviving member of the so-called "Creedish Death Cult" - is dictating his incredible life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the plane, which will shortly reach terminal velocity and crash into the vast Australian outback.
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yes
- By Chantelle Louise on 21-08-24
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Survivor
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 05-10-21
- Language: English
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The Ticket
- A Love Again Novel
- By: Heather Grace Stewart
- Narrated by: CJ Bloom, Gary Furlong
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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Would you travel the world with a perfect stranger? Fasten your seat belts for an emotional journey filled with humor and adventure. Bachelor and newscaster Pete McCarney buys two plane tickets for a trip around the world with his girlfriend, but they split up shortly before the trip, and he can't get a refund. In a gutsy last-minute move, Pete goes on social media asking for women with his girlfriend's exact name to join him on the trip. Twenty-one women apply, and the ensuing interview process is both awkward and hilarious.
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Horrible accents.
- By connie on 16-08-24
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The Ticket
- A Love Again Novel
- Narrated by: CJ Bloom, Gary Furlong
- Series: Love Again Series, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 17-04-18
- Language: English
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Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Adrian Mole, Book 6
- By: Sue Townsend
- Narrated by: Mathew Horne
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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Adrian Mole is middle-aged but still scribbling. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to win-over the voluptuous Daisy.... Adrian yearns for a better more meaningful world. But he's not ready to surrender his pen yet.
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Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Adrian Mole, Book 6
- Narrated by: Mathew Horne
- Series: Adrian Mole, Book 6
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 18-07-24
- Language: English
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