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Sinophagia
- A Celebration of Chinese Horror 2024
- By: Xueting Christine Ni
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, David Lee Huynh
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
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From the menacing vision of a red umbrella, to the ominous atmosphere of the Laughing Mountain; from the waking dream of virtual working to the sinister games of the locked room . . . this is a fascinating insight into the spine-chilling voices working within China today-a long way from the traditional expectations of hopping vampires and hanging ghosts.
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Sinophagia
- A Celebration of Chinese Horror 2024
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, David Lee Huynh
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 24-09-24
- Language: English
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Bring Up the Bodies
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind Tutt
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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By 1535 Thomas Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, the king’s new wife. But Anne has failed to give the king an heir, and Cromwell watches as Henry falls for plain Jane Seymour. Cromwell must find a solution that will satisfy Henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career. But neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of Anne’s final days.
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Just isn't grabbing me
- By Colin on 12-02-13
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Bring Up the Bodies
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind Tutt
- Series: Wolf Hall Trilogy (abridged), Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 10-05-12
- Language: English
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More Notes of a Dirty Old Man
- The Uncollected Columns
- By: Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne - editor
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Filled with his usual obsessions - sex, booze, gambling - More features Bukowski's offbeat insights into politics and literature, his tortured, violent relationships with women, and his lurid escapades on the poetry reading circuit. Highlighting his versatility, the book ranges from thinly-veiled autobiography to purely fictional tales of dysfunctional suburbanites, disgraced politicians, and down-and-out sports promoters - climaxing with a long, hilarious adventure among French filmmakers.
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More Notes of a Dirty Old Man
- The Uncollected Columns
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 31-10-17
- Language: English
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What Katy Did
- By: Susan Coolidge
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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Ever since her mother died, 12-year-old Katy has attempted to look after her five younger brothers and sisters. Her father, Dr. Carr, depends on her to set a good example while he takes care of patients. But no matter how hard Katy tries to be good, trouble always finds her. She tears all her dresses and breaks the dishes. She forgets to do her homework, so she gets bad grades. And her quick temper hurts the feelings of those she loves the most. But the day she refuses to listen when Aunt Izzie forbids her to use the new swing changes her life forever.
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A M A Z I N G
- By Ruth on 02-07-19
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What Katy Did
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Series: Katy Did, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-02-13
- Language: English
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Shadows in Heaven
- Tarabeg, Book 1
- By: Nadine Dorries
- Narrated by: Avena Wallace
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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In postwar Tarabeg, two women are waiting for ambitious Michael Malone to return home. Rosie is the local schoolteacher, and most people think she is promised to him. Just a few have guessed that he has secretly begun to woo Sarah, whose brutal fisherman father would kill her if he knew. Both Rosie and Sarah love Michael, both hope to become his wife and their lives will interweave in a tale of tangled secrets, old promises and new feuds. Michael Malone's choice will have fateful consequences for everyone - especially, in due course, for his young daughter....
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Lovely story.
- By denise stott on 11-09-21
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Shadows in Heaven
- Tarabeg, Book 1
- Narrated by: Avena Wallace
- Series: Tarabeg, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 29-11-18
- Language: English
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The Help
- By: Kathryn Stockett
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
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Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where Black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver. There's Aibileen, raising her 17th white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue and white Miss Skeeter, home from college, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another.
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Brilliant!
- By L.V.Marsden on 19-06-24
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The Help
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-08-21
- Language: English
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Blood and Money
- McBride & Tanner, Book 1
- By: Rachel McLean
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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DI Jade Tanner has been plunged into managing the Complex Crimes Unit, Police Scotland's newest investigating team. She's recruited Dr Petra McBride, fresh from losing her job at Dundee University, and DS Mo Uddin, who's reluctantly transferred from Birmingham. When America's newest internet billionaire is shot on the shores of Loch Lomond, the team is brought in. Jade suspects a connection with the shooting of a local millionaire, an unsolved case which has been haunting her.
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Blood and Money
- McBride & Tanner, Book 1
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Series: McBride & Tanner, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 13-08-24
- Language: English
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
- By: James Boswell
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 51 hrs and 2 mins
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Charming, vibrant, witty and edifying, The Life of Samuel Johnson is a work of great obsession and boundless reverence. The literary critic Samuel Johnson was 54 when he first encountered Boswell; the friendship that developed spawned one of the greatest biographies in the history of world literature. The book is full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization, and paints a vivid picture of 18th-century London, peopled by prominent personalities of the time.
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A peerless biography
- By Peter on 10-12-18
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 51 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 28-12-17
- Language: English
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The Deep Sky
- By: Yume Kitasei
- Narrated by: Sarah Skaer
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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It is the eve of Earth’s environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity’s last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect.
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The Deep Sky
- Narrated by: Sarah Skaer
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-08-24
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
- By: Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
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Dante's Divine Comedy is considered to be not only the most important epic poem in Italian literature, but also one of the greatest poems ever written. It consists of 100 cantos, and (after an introductory canto) they are divided into three sections. Each section is 33 cantos in length, and they describe how Dante and a guide travel through Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
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Dull!
- By David on 13-06-14
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The Divine Comedy
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 17-09-09
- Language: English
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
- By: Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Atandwa Kani
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
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Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, 44-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next 27 years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most memorably, his courageous wife, Winnie, and his five children. Now, 255 of these letters, a majority of which were previously unpublished, provide the most intimate portrait of Mandela since Long Walk to Freedom.
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Atandwa Kani
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 10-07-18
- Language: English
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Kokoro [Heart]
- By: Natsume Soseki, Meredith McKinney - translator
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe, Elizabeth Jasicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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No collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki's Kokoro, his most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published here in the first new translation in more than 50 years, Kokoro - meaning "heart" - is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls "Sensei".
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Really great book
- By Rob on 07-06-24
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Kokoro [Heart]
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe, Elizabeth Jasicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 10-08-21
- Language: English
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The Spitfire Girl
- By: Fenella J Miller
- Narrated by: Sarah Ovens
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Flying instructor Ellie Simpson has grown up a tomboy. She's never had an interest in the latest fashions or finding a husband; her only passion is flying her beloved Tiger Moth. But when war is declared, she is no longer be able to do what she loves most - fly.
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monotonous
- By V. Sexton on 11-09-24
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The Spitfire Girl
- Narrated by: Sarah Ovens
- Series: The Spitfire Girl, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-02-19
- Language: English
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The Merchant of Venice
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Antony Sher
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
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Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, agrees to lend Antonio, a Venetian merchant, three thousand ducats so that his friend Bassanio can afford to court his love, Portia. However, Shylock has one condition: Should the loan go unpaid, he will be entitled to a pound of Antonio's own flesh. Meanwhile in Belmont, according to the terms of her father's will, Portia's many suitors must choose correctly from three caskets. Bassanio arrives at Portia's estate and they declare their love for one another before he picks the correct casket.
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Very worthy, and rather dull
- By Philip on 19-01-09
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The Merchant of Venice
- Narrated by: Antony Sher
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 30-10-08
- Language: English
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The Last Tea Bowl Thief
- By: Jonelle Patrick
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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In modern-day Tokyo, Robin Swann's life has sputtered to a stop. She's stuck in a dead-end job testing antiquities for an auction house, but her true love is poetry, not pottery. Her stalled dissertation sits on her laptop, unopened in months, and she has no one to confide in but her goldfish. On the other side of town, Nori Okuda sells rice bowls and tea cups to Tokyo restaurants, as her family has done for generations. But with her grandmother in the hospital, the family business is foundering. Nori knows if her luck doesn't change soon, she'll lose what little she has left.
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Interesting read
- By Anonymous User on 17-03-24
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The Last Tea Bowl Thief
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-09-21
- Language: English
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Mater 2-10
- By: Hwang Sok-Yong
- Narrated by: Yong Kim
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
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Centred on three generations of a family of rail workers and a laid-off factory worker staging a high-altitude sit-in, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of ordinary working Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a powerful account that captures a nation's longing for a rail line to reconnect North and South, a magical-realist novel that manages to reflect the lives of modern industrial workers, and a culmination of Hwang's career—a masterpiece thirty years in the making.
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Mater 2-10
- Narrated by: Yong Kim
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 22-08-24
- Language: English
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Fruit of the Lemon
- By: Andrea Levy
- Narrated by: Ayesha Antoine
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Faith Jackson fixes herself up with a great job in TV and the perfect flatshare. But neither is that perfect—and nor are her relations with her overbearing, though always loving, family. Furious and perplexed when her parents announce their intention to retire back home to Jamaica, Faith makes her own journey there, where she is immediately welcomed by Aunt Coral, keeper of a rich cargo of family history.
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Wonderful book
- By Antonio Sanchez on 03-11-23
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Fruit of the Lemon
- Narrated by: Ayesha Antoine
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 25-08-22
- Language: English
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Sinister in Savannah: The Complete Box Set
- By: Aimee Nicole Walker
- Narrated by: Tristan James
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
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Sinister in Savannah is a fictional podcast exploring the city's most nefarious crimes with Southern-fried snark. The best-selling trilogy is now available in one collection. When the Sinister in Savannah team delves into the thirty-eight-year-old murder of a drag queen, they quickly discover that the story doesn't end with the alleged killer's confession in 1995. In Mr. Perfect, the podcast is back to investigate allegations that a local businessman is dabbling in money laundering. Pretty Poison follows Tess, a woman accused of killing her three husbands.
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Enjoyable Story
- By Mrs. E. J. Curtis on 17-03-23
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Sinister in Savannah: The Complete Box Set
- Narrated by: Tristan James
- Series: Sinister in Savannah Series, Book 1-3
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 24-05-22
- Language: English
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
- By: Charles Bukowski
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Born from Bukowski's columns, the LA underground press of the 1960s, Bukowski defined his early alter ego, Hank Chinaski, as a self-described dirty old man who eyes his defeatist attitude about himself with his clarity to see humor and holiness in others. Addictive and instructive listening, Bukowski delivers the humanity and intelligence of all the unseen. Filled with his usual obsessions - sex, booze, gambling - Notes features Bukowski's offbeat insights into politics and literature, and his tortured, violent relationships.
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Great stories poorly produced .
- By Lawrence C. on 09-03-18
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 31-10-17
- Language: English
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Zorba the Greek
- By: Nikos Kazantzakis
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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A wonderful tale of a young man’s coming of age, Zorba the Greek has been a classic of world literature since it was first translated into English in 1952 and made into an unforgettable movie with Anthony Quinn. Zorba, an irrepressible, earthy hedonist, sweeps his young disciple along as he wines, dines, and loves his way through a life dedicated to fulfilling his copious appetites. Zorba is irresistible in this charming audio production by veteran narrator George Guidall.
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Moved me
- By Paul LFC5X on 23-10-17
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Zorba the Greek
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 27-07-11
- Language: English
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