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The Count of Monte Cristo
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 50 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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The Count of Monte Cristo follows Edmond Dantès, a young sailor betrayed by those he trusts and condemned to a life he doesn’t deserve. After a daring escape and the discovery of a vast hidden treasure, he transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo—and sets out to rewrite his destiny. In a world of hidden motives and shifting loyalties, this story feels strikingly modern: a smart, high-stakes journey of identity, power, and the price of vengeance.
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This more modern narration loses some characterisation
- By NutwoodWanderer on 31-03-26
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 50 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 30-12-25
- Language: English
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- The bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classic
- By: Harper Lee
- Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,951
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Performance6,257
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Story6,242
Brought to you by Penguin. 'ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN' 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man...
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One of the greats.
- By Simon on 05-10-15
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- The bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classic
- Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-07-14
- Language: English
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Flesh
- WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025
- By: David Szalay
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,084
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Performance1,063
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Story1,063
**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025** Through chance, luck and choice, one man’s life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London – in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our lives Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a...
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Totally meh.
- By Bax on 21-11-25
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Flesh
- WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 06-03-25
- Language: English
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Number Thirty-Two
- By: Cassie Steward
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall99
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Performance98
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Story98
Number Thirty-Two was once a family home. Anna was once a mother and a wife. Now, she is in arrears and alone. With little choice but to sell up, she is forced to confront the memories of the people who once inhabited the empty rooms. With the help of an unlikely ally in her next door neighbour's son, she is finally able to piece together the tragic events of forty years ago that have inextricably linked the fates of their families and ricocheted through both of their households for decades.
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Beautiful
- By Hannah Q-K on 07-01-26
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Number Thirty-Two
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 18-09-25
- Language: English
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Blood Meridian
- Or the Evening Redness in the West
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,757
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Performance1,486
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Story1,484
Author of the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier.
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Visionary, violent, yet redemptive. A masterpiece.
- By Peter Kettle on 07-04-13
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Blood Meridian
- Or the Evening Redness in the West
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 16-05-07
- Language: English
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Slags
- By: Emma Jane Unsworth
- Narrated by: Chloe Massey
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall178
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Performance172
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Story172
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ADULTS AND ANIMALS 'Compulsive and hilarious, like a brilliant gossip with your best friend. Emma Jane Unsworth is my favourite' Sara Pascoe 'Her best yet – funny, gritty, delightfully feral and, as ever, painfully truthful' DOLLY ALDERTON ‘An...
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Fabulous reflection of sisterhood
- By Roni on 07-06-26
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Slags
- Narrated by: Chloe Massey
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-05-25
- Language: English
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Atmosphere
- A Love Story; The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Kristen Dimercurio, Julia Whelan, Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,281
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Performance1,214
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Story1,214
Brought to you by Penguin. AN EPIC NOVEL SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE 1980S SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM ABOUT THE EXTRAORDINARY LENGTHS WE GO TO LIVE AND LOVE BEYOND OUR LIMITS. In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston’s Johnson...
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Another stunning story from Taylor Jenkins Reid
- By Sharon on 19-07-25
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Atmosphere
- A Love Story; The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
- Narrated by: Kristen Dimercurio, Julia Whelan, Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 03-06-25
- Language: English
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The Lords of the North
- By: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,030
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Performance1,849
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Story1,837
The third book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. A hero will be forged from this broken land. As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. The year is 878 and the Vikings have been thrown out of Wessex. Uhtred, fresh from fighting for Alfred in the battle to free...
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Very good story telling
- By Gizmo on 25-02-26
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The Lords of the North
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Series: Last Kingdom (formerly Saxon Tales), Book 3
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-05-14
- Language: English
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A Fine Balance
- By: Rohinton Mistry
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,466
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Performance1,330
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Story1,329
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers - a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village - will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.
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My favourite book ever
- By Jane Showering on 16-10-18
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A Fine Balance
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 19-06-18
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cities
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,922
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Performance1,625
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Story1,627
'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the recording begins and ends with some of Dickens's best-known words, and between those lines is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the audiobook tells the story of a French doctor who is imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille in Paris. Upon his release, he moves to London with his daughter, Lucie, whom he had never met.
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The best of books, the best of readers
- By Mr David Newton on 17-11-07
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A Tale of Two Cities
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 19-01-06
- Language: English
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The Winds of War
- By: Herman Wouk
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 45 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall452
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Performance385
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Story383
Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.
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Very good in parts, creaky in others
- By Richard H on 16-01-19
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The Winds of War
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 45 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 18-10-11
- Language: English
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Very Good Jeeves, Volume 1
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Abridged
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Overall168
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Performance144
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Story143
Jeeves and Wooster never disappoint on audio and these unabridged stories are of course no exception. Wodehouse/Jarvis deliver another excellent audio collection featuring all your favourite characters, not forgetting our intrepid duo of course! Full Story Listings: 1. Jeeves and the Impending Doom, 2. The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy, 3. Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit, 4. Jeeves and the Song of Songs, 5. Episode of the Dog McIntosh, and 6. The Spot of Art
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Entertaining Read
- By Ms. R. D. Cook on 31-03-16
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Very Good Jeeves, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-09-11
- Language: English
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Pandora
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 7
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 24 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall228
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Performance211
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Story209
No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant, Raymond Kelvedon, in a Normandy chateau in 1944, she had cast her spell over his family - all artists and dealers - for 50 years. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed Raymond's tempestuous wife, Galena, both entertaining a string of lovers and giving birth to her four children: Jupiter, Alizarin, Jonathan and superbrat Sienna. Then an exquisite stranger rolls up, claiming to be a long-lost daughter of the family, setting the three Belvedon brothers at each other's throats.
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Sublime!
- By nicola on 13-06-19
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Pandora
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 7
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Series: Rutshire Chronicles, Book 7
- Length: 24 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 13-09-18
- Language: English
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The Other Boleyn Girl
- By: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Vanessa Kirby
- Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall622
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Performance550
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Story549
*Pre-order Royal Witch, Philippa Gregory's new novel now. Coming October 2027* Two sisters. One king. A court built on desire and betrayal. When Mary Boleyn comes to court she is invisible, until she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Stepping into a world of privilege and danger, she becomes his...
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Great book ruined by poor editing
- By SammyGirl on 08-09-18
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The Other Boleyn Girl
- Narrated by: Vanessa Kirby
- Series: The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, Book 9
- Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 26-07-18
- Language: English
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Miss Benson's Beetle
- An uplifting story of female friendship against the odds
- By: Rachel Joyce
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,910
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Performance2,690
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Story2,680
Brought to you by Penguin. It is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition. She is going to travel to the other side of the world to search for a beetle that may or may not exist. Enid...
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Finding the way
- By Rachel Redford on 21-08-20
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Miss Benson's Beetle
- An uplifting story of female friendship against the odds
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 23-07-20
- Language: English
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The Grapes of Wrath
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott - introduction
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall745
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Performance684
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Story682
Brought to you by Penguin. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era...
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Everybody should read this book
- By Cromarty on 09-03-22
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The Grapes of Wrath
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 24-02-22
- Language: English
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The Children of Húrin
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien - editor
- Narrated by: Christopher Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,850
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Performance1,491
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Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of The Children of Húrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, eagles and Orcs, and the...
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An Epic and Griping Tale
- By William on 24-01-13
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The Children of Húrin
- Narrated by: Christopher Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 19-09-07
- Language: English
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One Good Turn
- The second book in the Jackson Brodie series from the bestselling author
- By: Kate Atkinson
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall628
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Performance578
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Story574
Brought to you by Penguin. The second Jackson Brodie novel (after Case Histories): literary crime from the prizewinning, number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription. It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a...
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disappointing narration
- By 1ellisj on 03-08-15
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One Good Turn
- The second book in the Jackson Brodie series from the bestselling author
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Series: Jackson Brodie, Book 2
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-02-15
- Language: English
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The Island of Missing Trees
- The war-torn love story set in 1970s Cyprus, shortlisted for the Women's Prize
- By: Elif Shafak
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma, Amira Ghazalla
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,466
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Performance1,333
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Story1,326
Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK You don't fall in love in Cyprus in the summer of 1974. Not here, not now. In 1974, two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided Cyprus, meet at...
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Narrators are horrible
- By idyll on 16-08-21
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The Island of Missing Trees
- The war-torn love story set in 1970s Cyprus, shortlisted for the Women's Prize
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma, Amira Ghazalla
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 05-08-21
- Language: English
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The Hippopotamus
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall713
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Performance605
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Story601
Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan. But strange things have been going on at Swafford....
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Extremely funny
- By Becki on 18-07-11
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The Hippopotamus
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 02-09-10
- Language: English
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