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The School Inspector Calls!
- By: Gervase Phinn
- Narrated by: Gervase Phinn
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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Summer has arrived in Barton-in-the-Dale and as a new term begins at the little primary school, it's not just the warm weather that's getting people hot under the collar. Meetings with the teachers from Urebank School to discuss the merger are producing more than a few fireworks, a disruptive new pupil arrives, set to cause trouble, and a surprising staff love affair is exposed.
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Book three of three
- By Amazon Customer on 09-11-14
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The School Inspector Calls!
- Narrated by: Gervase Phinn
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 19-06-14
- Language: English
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Gentlemen and Players
- By: Joanne Harris
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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At St Oswald’s, a long-established boys’ grammar school in the north of England, a new year has just begun. For the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world; and Roy Straitley, the eccentric veteran Latin master, is finally – reluctantly – contemplating retirement. But beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crises of the school, a darker undercurrent stirs.
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Stunning Narration
- By Laurie-an on 01-05-11
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Gentlemen and Players
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 20-01-11
- Language: English
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Best Kept Secret: Clifton Chronicles, Book 3
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor’s deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her father’s office on the night he was killed. When the General Election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat
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Oh No!!!!!
- By mollyeyre on 17-03-13
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Best Kept Secret: Clifton Chronicles, Book 3
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Series: Clifton Chronicles, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 14-03-13
- Language: English
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Thrush Green
- By: Miss Miss Read
- Narrated by: Clare Higgins
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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It's the May Day holiday, and a fair has come to the village of Thrush Green. The residents of Thrush Green all have their own views about the fair. For young Paul, just recovered from an illness, it is a joy to be allowed out to play at the fair; for Ruth, who returned to the soothing tranquility of Thrush Green nursing a broken heart, the fair is a welcome distraction from her own problems. And for Dr Lovell, the fair brings an unexpected new patient.
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Order Please!!!
- By Mrs B on 25-07-17
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Thrush Green
- Narrated by: Clare Higgins
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 23-05-11
- Language: English
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Shift
- Wool Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Hugh Howey
- Narrated by: Peter Brooke
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
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The much anticipated prequel to best seller Wool that takes us back to the beginnings of the silo. The full novel which brings together First, Second and Third Shift.
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Great book, terrible performance!!
- By Mr. Stephen Briglin on 15-05-13
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Shift
- Wool Trilogy, Book 2
- Narrated by: Peter Brooke
- Series: The Silo Saga, Book 2
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 25-04-13
- Language: English
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Jacaranda
- By: Gaël Faye
- Narrated by: Gaël Faye
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Quels secrets cache l’ombre du jacaranda, l’arbre fétiche de Stella ? Il faudra à son ami Milan des années pour le découvrir. Des années pour percer les silences du Rwanda, dévasté après le génocide des Tutsi. En rendant leur parole aux disparus, les jeunes gens échapperont à la solitude. Et trouveront la paix près des rivages magnifiques du lac Kivu. Sur quatre générations, avec sa douceur unique, Gaël Faye nous raconte l’histoire terrible d’un pays qui s’essaie malgré tout au dialogue et au pardon. Comme un arbre se dresse entre ténèbres et lumière, Jacaranda célèbre l’humanité, paradoxale, aimante, vivante.
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Appassionata
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 5
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 29 hrs and 34 mins
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Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the loneliest and the most exploited girl in the world. When a dramatic suicide attempt destroyed her violin career, she set her sights on the male-dominated heights of the conductor's rostrum. Given the chance to take over the Rutminster Symphony Orchestra, Abby is ecstatic, not realising the RSO is composed of the wildest bunch of musicians ever to blow a horn or caress a fiddle.
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Audio narration oddly stilted
- By Amazon Customer on 23-05-20
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Appassionata
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 5
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Series: Rutshire Chronicles, Book 5
- Length: 29 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 26-07-18
- Language: English
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The New Neighbours
- By: Diney Costeloe
- Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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Dartmouth Circle is quiet and exclusive - just the way its residents want it to stay, especially arch busybody Sheila Colby. When she hears that the house next door to her has been bought for a student and four friends to rent, she is incandescent. Nothing in this outwardly serene little cul-de-sac is quite as it seems - will the arrival of Madeleine 'Mad' Richmond and her friends bring seething tensions and dark secrets bubbling to the surface?
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Disappointed so could not finish
- By M. J. Kinvig on 27-04-19
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The New Neighbours
- Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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Kane and Abel
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
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Kane & Abel for a new generation!!
They had only one thing in common - William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant. Two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths were destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune.
The marvellous story, spanning 60 years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save - and finally destroy - each other.
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Superb listen
- By josephine on 05-06-13
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Kane and Abel
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Series: Kane & Abel, Book 1
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 20-10-09
- Language: English
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The Dandelion Years
- By: Erica James
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory, Lee Maxwell Simpson
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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Ashcombe was the most beautiful house Saskia had ever seen as a little girl, providing a perfect sanctuary to hide from the tragedy which shattered her childhood. Now an adult, Saskia is still living at Ashcombe and, as a book restorer ,devotes her days tending to broken, battered books. When she discovers a notebook carefully concealed in an old Bible, Saskia finds herself drawn into a heart-rending tale of wartime love....
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Lovely story nicely read
- By Mr S Gregory on 30-06-15
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The Dandelion Years
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory, Lee Maxwell Simpson
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 26-02-15
- Language: English
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Gossip from Thrush Green
- By: Miss Miss Read
- Narrated by: Gwen Watford
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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Gossip From Thrush Green returns readers to that delightful English village, neighbour to Fairacre, for a golden summer. But this sleepy, pristine setting conceals a flurry of activity among the villagers. Rumour has it that Mr. Venables is considering retirement just as the village’s teacher is about to make an important decision. Molly Curdle prepares for a new baby. The kindly vicar, Charles Henstock, works on his sermon - quite unaware of the disaster that will overtake him.
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Good, honest storytelling
- By Robinson on 12-04-18
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Gossip from Thrush Green
- Narrated by: Gwen Watford
- Series: Thrush Green, Book 6
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 09-01-12
- Language: English
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This is Me
- By: Shari Low
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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This is... Denise. Married to Ray, her first and only love, Denise has never, for one moment, regretted putting the husband she idolised on a pedestal above everyone and everything else. But, after forty years of marriage, he is gone, leaving Denise to discover that their perfect marriage was fatally flawed. Now she faces a future alone. But first, she must face the betrayals of the past. This is... Claire. The estranged daughter of Denise, the woman who put her husband before her children, Claire took the opposite path and devoted her life to raising her family, sacrificing.
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Another Brilliant story by Shari low
- By MillsLupe on 30-07-24
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This is Me
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 12-12-22
- Language: English
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The Goldfinch
- By: Donna Tartt
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 32 hrs and 25 mins
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Aged 13, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld.
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Narrator Hand Picked By Tartt- Outstanding!
- By Tara Mcgrath on 02-12-13
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The Goldfinch
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 32 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 22-10-13
- Language: English
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Wicked!
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
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At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the facilities of his school with Larkminster Comprehensive - known locally, as 'Larks'. His reasons for doing so are purely financial, but he is encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the dynamic new head of Larks, who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure.
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I am no prude but this is all about under age sex
- By Bella H on 22-11-19
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Wicked!
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Series: Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8
- Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 20-09-18
- Language: English
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Cabin Pressure
- Zurich: The BBC Radio 4 airline
- By: John Finnemore
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cole, Full Cast, Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 55 mins
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The complete finale of the hit BBC Radio 4 sitcom- 2 episodes. Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and prayer world of a tiny, one-plane airline, staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. In this, the finale of the whole series, we discover that for MJN Air, whether it's choosing an ice-cream flavour, putting a princess in a van or remembering your grandmother's name, no job is too small, but, many, many jobs are too difficult.
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Brilliant!!!!!!
- By SARA JANE RATHBONE on 01-02-15
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Cabin Pressure
- Zurich: The BBC Radio 4 airline
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cole, Full Cast, Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 55 mins
- Release date: 15-01-15
- Language: English
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The Hypnotist's Love Story
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
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The Hypnotist's Love Story is about the mild craziness that lurks behind the facades we present to the world, especially when it comes to love. Ellen O'Farrell is an expert when it comes to human frailties. She's a hypnotherapist who helps her clients deal with everything from addictions to life-long phobias. So when she falls in love with a man who is being stalked by his ex-girlfriend she's more intrigued than frightened.
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Brilliant
- By Catherine on 23-11-14
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The Hypnotist's Love Story
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 13-12-11
- Language: English
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A Delicate Truth
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's Private Secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it.
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Gripping listen
- By Mrs Anne Dunne on 02-05-13
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A Delicate Truth
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 25-04-13
- Language: English
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Anna
- By: Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Anna Cole grew up poor, but her mother's love made her feel rich every day. Then her mother died, and Anna was sent to a care home. As a teenager, Anna vowed that one day she would have children of her own and create the happy, noisy family life she always craved. Then, one day, Anna meets Theo Montgomery in a lift. Theo has kind eyes but a sad past. His family were rich, but his childhood was full of neglect. Theo can't imagine bringing a child into this cruel world, but he does want a soul mate. Someone to love him unconditionally; someone with whom he can share his family's wealth.
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I wanted to like it but....
- By andrea mciver on 22-09-21
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Anna
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Series: One Love, Two Stories, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-12-18
- Language: English
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What We Keep
- By: Jennifer Millikin
- Narrated by: Victoria Dickson, Wesley Mercer
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Charming and heroic, there’s nothing about Gabriel Woodruff that Avery Burke doesn’t love. His warm brown eyes, his generosity, that small scar above his lip. The newspaper photo of him carrying her from a burning home only adds to the romance of it all. A fairytale beginning and a picture-perfect marriage practically guarantees Avery and Gabriel a ride into the sunset. But every relationship has flaws, and what they ignored while they were busy being flawless eventually surfaces. The unraveling begins with the smallest tug on the tiniest string.
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Emotional!
- By Jocelyne on 13-09-24
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What We Keep
- Narrated by: Victoria Dickson, Wesley Mercer
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 05-09-24
- Language: English
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Jump!
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Gerri Halligan
- Length: 26 hrs and 47 mins
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Following the death of her bullying husband, Etta Bancroft's selfish children move her to a village in the Cotswolds. One night, she discovers a filly, left to die in the snow. With help, Etta rescues the horse, and she and her friends form a syndicate to pay for her upkeep. As the horse recovers, she begins to show racing pedigree, so the syndicate enters her into a maiden hurdle - and are shocked at the result.
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Do not buy this
- By Anne on 25-05-11
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Jump!
- Narrated by: Gerri Halligan
- Series: Rutshire Chronicles, Book 9
- Length: 26 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 15-11-10
- Language: English
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