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Far Horizon
- By: Tony Park
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Story13
Former Australian Army officer Mike Williams is trying to forget a troubled past - with a carefree existence as an overland tour guide in Africa. But then one day on the road, he receives word that the South African Police have some news for him. A bloody and tragic run-in with ivory hunters in Mozambique the year before had left Mike's world in shreds. But now the authorities are on the poachers' trail and they need his help to catch them.
Tenacious English journalist Sarah Thatcher is along for the ride, and insists on becoming involved.
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Good read, awful performance
- By StarryWazzoh on 17-04-21
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Far Horizon
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 01-02-13
- Language: English
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I Love Dick
- By: Chris Kraus, Eileen Myles - foreword
- Narrated by: David de Vries, Susan Ericksen, Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance20
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Story20
In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed independent filmmaker, turning forty, falls in love with a well-known theorist and endeavors to seduce him with the help of her husband.
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Academic and fun
- By Lily on 06-06-21
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I Love Dick
- Narrated by: David de Vries, Susan Ericksen, Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 21-04-17
- Language: English
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The Novel Habits of Happiness: Isabel Dalhousie, Book 10
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Karlyn Stephen
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall139
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Performance129
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Story129
From a small town outside Edinburgh comes the news that a young boy has been recounting vivid recollections of a past life: a perfect description of an island off the coast of Scotland which he couldn't possibly know and a house there where he claims to have spent his former life. When the boy's mother asks Isabel to investigate his claims, she feels she must - of course! - help them learn the truth, and she and her husband, Jamie, set off for the island.
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Poor quaility recording!
- By Julie White on 02-06-15
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The Novel Habits of Happiness: Isabel Dalhousie, Book 10
- Narrated by: Karlyn Stephen
- Series: Isabel Dalhousie Series, Book 10
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-05-15
- Language: English
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That Girl from Nowhere
- By: Dorothy Koomson
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Akiya Henry
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall222
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Performance198
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Story200
From the best-selling author of The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before, and My Best Friend's Girl, an emotional story about love, identity, and the meaning of family. ‘Where are you coming from with that accent of yours?’ he asks. ‘Nowhere,’ I reply. ‘I’m from nowhere.’ ‘Everyone’s from somewhere,’ he says. ‘Not me,’ I reply silently. Clemency Smittson was adopted as a baby, and the only connection she has to her birth mother is a cardboard box hand decorated with butterflies.
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Koomson doesn't disappoint
- By Lauren on 28-09-15
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That Girl from Nowhere
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Akiya Henry
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-04-15
- Language: English
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The French Guesthouse
- By: Isabelle Broom
- Narrated by: Mira Dovreni
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
On the night Fliss loses everything - her beloved hotel ravaged by fire and fiancé exposed as a cheat - she receives devastating news: her estranged mother has died. Summoned to a dilapidated guesthouse in France for the reading of the will, Fliss is stunned to discover she has been left all her mother's possessions. As Fliss begins restoring the guesthouse, she unearths long-buried secrets about her mother, their past and the true cost of her long absence.
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Description of the guesthouse
- By Amazon Customer on 16-05-26
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The French Guesthouse
- Narrated by: Mira Dovreni
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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Lichtspiel
- By: Daniel Kehlmann
- Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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Story10
Einer der Größten des Kinos, vielleicht der größte Regisseur seiner Epoche: Zur Machtergreifung dreht G.W. Pabst in Frankreich; vor den Gräueln des neuen Deutschlands flieht er nach Hollywood. Aber unter der blendenden Sonne Kaliforniens sieht der weltberühmte Regisseur mit einem Mal aus wie ein Zwerg. Nicht einmal Greta Garbo, die er unsterblich gemacht hat, kann ihm helfen. Und so findet Pabst sich, fast wie ohne eigenes Zutun, in seiner Heimat Österreich wieder, die nun Ostmark heißt.
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Wow! Wieder ein Meisterstück von Daniel Kehlmann!
- By taptoflow on 09-05-24
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Lichtspiel
- Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-10-23
- Language: German
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The Gameshouse
- The Serpent, The Thief and The Master
- By: Claire North
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall289
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Performance272
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Story271
It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost though chess, backgammon - every game under the sun. But those whom fortune favours may be invited to compete in the higher league...where the games played are of politics and nations, of economics and kings. It is a contest where Capture the Castle involves real castles and where hide and seek takes place on the scale of a continent. Among those worthy of competing in the higher league, three unusually talented contestants play for the highest stakes of all....
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An amazing story that is wonderfully read!
- By Kush on 03-12-15
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The Gameshouse
- The Serpent, The Thief and The Master
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Gameshouse, Book 1-3
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 05-11-15
- Language: English
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The Careful Use of Compliments
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance56
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Story56
For philosophically-minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought. And whilst juggling the arrival of baby Charlie, a passionate relationship with his father Jamie, a truce with her furious niece Cat, and...
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Beautifully read tedious story
- By mandy simpson-horn on 01-04-22
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The Careful Use of Compliments
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Series: Isabel Dalhousie Series, Book 4
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-08-13
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
- An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance36
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Story37
The continuing adventures from Isabel Dalhousie, Edinburgh philosopher and curious observer of the behaviour of her fellow man.
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Wrong voice
- By Karen on 17-07-12
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The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
- An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Series: Isabel Dalhousie Series, Book 8
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-09-11
- Language: English
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A Distant View of Everything
- Isabel Dalhousie, Book 11
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Karlyn Stephen
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance49
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Story50
The latest novel in Alexander McCall Smith's much-loved Isabel Dalhousie series. Recently distracted by the arrival of her and Jamie's second son, Magnus, Isabel Dalhousie - philanthropic editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - is anxious. The next issue of the Review is far from ready, her eldest, Charlie, is jealous, and their housekeeper, Grace, has an officious approach to childcare. With some relief, Isabel returns to helping out at her niece Cat's delicatessen, where surely the most taxing duty is the preparation of sandwiches.
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Gentle philosophy
- By Nicola on 24-10-23
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A Distant View of Everything
- Isabel Dalhousie, Book 11
- Narrated by: Karlyn Stephen
- Series: Isabel Dalhousie Series, Book 11
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 28-05-17
- Language: English
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A Bend in the River
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall98
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Performance73
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Story73
In this incandescent novel, V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man, an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
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A flowing history from the heart of Africa
- By Nigel on 03-05-06
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A Bend in the River
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-09-04
- Language: English
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The Tree of Man
- By: Patrick White
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 22 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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Story12
An extraordinary story about a couple’s experience of moving into the remote Australian wilderness. Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company, journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife, Amy, to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment.
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Very well read. A masterpiece
- By Mimi Roberts on 12-04-25
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The Tree of Man
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 22 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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A Week in December
- By: Sebastian Faulks
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall351
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Performance191
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Story193
A Week in December takes place over the course of a single week. It brings together an intriguing cast of characters, each apparently in his or her own world but - as gradually becomes clear - intricately related. As the story builds to its climax, Faulks pulls together powerful ideas about family, money, religion and the way we live today.
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Really gripping story
- By Paul Taylor on 19-02-10
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A Week in December
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-02-10
- Language: English
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Ein Sommer, der bleibt
- Peter Kurzeck erzählt das Dorf seiner Kindheit
- By: Peter Kurzeck, Klaus Sander
- Narrated by: Peter Kurzeck
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Das Dorf Staufenberg liegt auf einer Felskuppe. Hoch oben die alte Burg. Wenn der böhmische Flüchtlingsjunge Peter vom Turm ins Tal blickt...
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Ein Sommer, der bleibt
- Peter Kurzeck erzählt das Dorf seiner Kindheit
- Narrated by: Peter Kurzeck
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 16-10-09
- Language: German
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Dr Finlay
- The Complete BBC Radio Collection
- By: A. J. Cronin
- Narrated by: David Tennant, John Gordon Sinclair, Celia Imrie, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance66
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Story65
Ready with his black bag, Dr Finlay sets out to remedy all manner of ailments suffered by his patients in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford. In this complete BBC Radio collection, we meet the surprising Dr Finlay as he is welcomed to the practise with a black eye. Over the course of these series the early years of Dr Finlay are explored, as he gets to grips with the locals in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford.
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chapters with titled
- By Victoria Walker on 30-12-19
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Dr Finlay
- The Complete BBC Radio Collection
- Narrated by: David Tennant, John Gordon Sinclair, Celia Imrie, full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 19-12-19
- Language: English
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The Bookshop of Yesterdays
- By: Amy Meyerson
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading. Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy’s bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for...
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The Bookshop of Yesterdays
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-06-18
- Language: English
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Stern Men
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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On two remote islands off the coast of Maine, the local lobstermen have fought savagely for generations over the fishing rights to the ocean waters between them. Young Ruth Thomas is born into this feud, the daughter of one of the greediest lobstermen in Maine. Eighteen years old, as smart as a whip and irredeemably unromantic, Ruth returns home from boarding school determined to throw her education overboard and join the 'stern men'.
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Witty and Warm
- By C on 16-03-26
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Stern Men
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 23-04-18
- Language: English
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Remainder
- By: Tom McCarthy
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Overall56
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Performance41
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Story41
Traumatised by an accident that involves something falling from the sky and leaving him eight-and-a-half million pounds richer, our hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting memories and situations from his past. But, when this fails to quench his thirst for authenticity, he starts reconstructing more and more violent events, including hold-ups and shoot-outs.
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A work of genius - nothing less
- By Welsh Mafia on 14-08-10
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Remainder
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 21-05-07
- Language: English
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Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools
- By: Victoria Twead
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Overall253
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Performance235
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Story233
If Joe and Vicky had known what relocating to a tiny mountain village in Andalucía would really be like, they might have hesitated. They can have no idea of the culture shock in store for them...no idea they'll become reluctant chicken farmers and own the most dangerous cockerel in Spain...no idea they'll help capture a vulture and be rescued by a mule. Will they stay, or will they return to the relative sanity of England?
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FANTASTIC!!
- By Anonymous on 02-03-23
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Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Series: Old Fools, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 21-06-18
- Language: English
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The Van
- By: Roddy Doyle
- Narrated by: Brendan Gleeson
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
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Overall61
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Performance56
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Story54
The final book in Roddy Doyle's highly acclaimed Barrytown Trilogy focuses on Jimmy Rabbitte Sr, who is facing the vicissitudes of unemployment when his friend Bimbo invites him to become his partner in a new venture: a fish and chip van.
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last part of the trilogy, farewell to the Rabbits
- By Nicholas P. on 09-01-17
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The Van
- Narrated by: Brendan Gleeson
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 22-01-08
- Language: English
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