Literary Lives

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    • By: Sarah Winman
    • Narrated by: Sarah Winman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,718 ratings
    • From the author of When God Was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war, art and the ghost of E.M. Forster....

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    • By: Matt Haig
    • Narrated by: Joanna Lumley, Jordan Stephens
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 726 ratings
    • The Life Impossible is a story of wild adventure, deep transformation and gloriously heart-warming characters. It shows how a new outlook can burst into life at any moment and change everything....

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    • By: Hanya Yanagihara
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,591 ratings
    • A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and memory....

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    • Hardacre Family Saga Series, Book 1
    • By: CL Skelton
    • Narrated by: Justine Eyre
    • Series: Hardacre Family Saga Series, Book 1
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Hardacre is the sweeping rags to riches story of the Hardacre family. This dramatic family saga follows generations of the Hardacres from Victorian times to the 1950s. Hardacre traces the family's humble beginnings to their position of great wealth....

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    • A Tale of Manchester Life
    • By: Elizabeth Gaskell
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 636 ratings
    • Elizabeth Gaskell's remarkable first novel, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life portrays a love that defies the rigid boundaries of class with tragic consequences....

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    • By: Lesley Allen
    • Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 30-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • Biddy Weir is a quirky girl. Abandoned by her mother as a baby, and with a father who's not quite equipped for the challenges of modern parenting, Biddy lives in her own little world, happy to pass her time painting by the sea and watching the birds go by....

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    • By: Marian Keyes
    • Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
    • Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,394 ratings
    • One day, sitting in traffic, Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life....

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    • By: Douglas Stuart
    • Narrated by: Angus King
    • Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,481 ratings
    • It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life....

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    • By: Yann Martel
    • Narrated by: Sanjeev Bhaskar
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,084 ratings
    • One boy, one boat, one tiger... After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific....

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    • By: Kate Atkinson
    • Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
    • Series: Todd Family, Book 1
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,746 ratings
    • During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Kristina McMorris
    • Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • 2 CHILDREN FOR SALE. In 1931, near Philadelphia, ambitious reporter Ellis Reed photographs the gut-wrenching sign posted beside a pair of siblings on a farmhouse porch....

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    • By: Susan Meissner
    • Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The author of A Fall of Marigolds journeys from the present day to World War II England, as two sisters are separated by the chaos of wartime....

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    • By: Hala Alyan
    • Narrated by: Leila Buck
    • Length: 19 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home....

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    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 18-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle....

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    • By: Charles Dickens
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 30 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is closely modelled on the 18h-century novels that Charles Dickens loved as a child, such as Robinson Crusoe, in which the fortunes of a hero shape the plot....

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    • By: Coco Mellors
    • Narrated by: Kit Griffiths
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 511 ratings
    • For fans of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage....

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    • By: Gabrielle Zevin
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • A.J. Fikry, the grumpy owner of Island Books, is going through a hard time: his bookshop is failing, he has lost his beloved wife, and his prized possession - a rare first edition book has been stolen. But one day A.J. finds two-year-old Maya sitting on the bookshop floor....

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    • By: Sarah Rose Etter
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Series: The Book of X
    • Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood on the family meat farm, to a desk job in the city, to finally experiencing love, she grapples with her body, men, and society, all while imagining a softer world....

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