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Brooklyn
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Saoirse Ronan
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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In a small town in 1950s Ireland Eilis Lacey is one among many women of her generation who cannot find work at home. So, when a job is offered in America, she knows she must leave. Arriving, alone, at a noisy boarding house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has left behind. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she begins to find a new way of living, and the possibility of companionship, Eilis receives tragic news which sends her back to Ireland.
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Brooklyn
- Narrated by: Saoirse Ronan
- Series: Eilis Lacey, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 17-10-24
- Language: English
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Heroes
- Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
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Imagine sandals on your feet, a sword in your hand and the hot sun beating down on your helmet. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fleece. Marvel as Atalanta - a woman raised by bears - outrun any man before being tricked with golden apples. Discover how Bellerophon captures the winged horse Pegasus to help him slay the monster Chimera. Heroes is the story of what we mortals are truly capable of - at our worst and our very best....
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Ancient Myths from a Modern Legend!
- By Simon on 02-11-18
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Heroes
- Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Series: Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths, Book 2
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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Villa of Secrets
- By: Patricia Wilson
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
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Rebecca Neumanner's marriage is on the brink of collapse as her desire to be a mother becomes an obsession. Then she receives news from her estranged family in Rhodes. Called back to the beautiful Greek island of her birth, she realises how little she knows of the grandmother she has eluded for over a decade. Bubba has never spoken of the Nazi occupation during her youth, but there have always been whispers. What desperate measures did she take that terrible day in 1944 when her family was ripped apart? Can the rumour she had blood on her own hands really be true? But Bubba intends to take her secrets to the grave.
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Wow
- By mrs a j harding on 22-05-19
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Villa of Secrets
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-07-18
- Language: English
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Odyssey
- Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths, Book 4
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years - battling monsters, the temptations of goddesses and suffering the curse of Poseidon - to voyage home to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca.
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amazing audio book
- By M. Smith on 03-10-24
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Odyssey
- Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths, Book 4
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Series: Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths, Book 4
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 26-09-24
- Language: English
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The Jane Austen Collection
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Claire Foy, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Billie Piper, and others
- Length: 45 hrs
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Renowned as much for her wit and satirical social commentary as for her stories of love and romance, Jane Austen remains unfailingly relevant and one of Britain’s best loved authors. In this Audible Original collection, an all-star list of narrators (Billie Piper, Claire Foy, Emma Thompson, Florence Pugh and Gugu Mbatha-Raw) capture Austen’s pin-sharp humour and tone in these dramatisations of her six beloved novels accompanied by a full cast.
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Not split into individual titles - UPDATED
- By MelF on 05-11-20
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The Jane Austen Collection
- An Audible Original Drama
- Narrated by: Claire Foy, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Billie Piper, Florence Pugh, Emma Thompson
- Length: 45 hrs
- Release date: 05-11-20
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike ( Gone Girl). In her bright and energetic performance of this British classic, she expertly captures Austen’s signature wit and tone. Her attention to detail, her literary background, and her performance in the 2005 feature film version of the novel provide the perfect foundation from which to convey the story of Elizabeth Bennet, her four sisters, and the inimitable Mr. Darcy.
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Oh Dear!
- By Sir Henry on 30-01-18
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Pride and Prejudice
- Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
- Series: Jane Austen's Novels
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 08-12-15
- Language: English
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- By: Susanna Clarke
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman, Richard Armitage, V.E. Schwab
- Length: 36 hrs and 35 mins
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1806. England is beleaguered by the long war, and centuries have passed since magicians faded from view. But one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell. Proceeding to London, he raises a woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician. Young, handsome and daring, Jonathan Strange is his very antithesis. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men – which overwhelms that between England and France.
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman, Richard Armitage, V.E. Schwab
- Series: Susanna Clarke, Book 1
- Length: 36 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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The Cavendon Women
- By: Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
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A sweeping, multigenerational saga for fans of Downton Abbey, set around the stately home of Cavendon Hall as the roaring '20s change the family's fortunes forever. It's 1926. One stately home's future lies with four very different young women.... On a summer weekend in 1926, the Ingham family gathers at Cavendon Hall, the great house in Yorkshire that has been their family home for centuries, summoned by the earl.
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Definitely ready!
- By Mrs J Allen on 08-08-22
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The Cavendon Women
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Series: Cavendon Hall, Book 2
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 26-03-15
- Language: English
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The American No
- By: Rupert Everett
- Narrated by: Allan Corduner, Freddie Fox, Rupert Everett
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Seven stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, hope and rejection, from a writer at the height of his powers. A brilliantly witty, funny and tender collection of stories that draws on the wealth of film and TV ideas Rupert Everett has created over the course of his career, The American No will delight and surprise his many fans.
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The American No
- Narrated by: Allan Corduner, Freddie Fox, Rupert Everett
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-10-24
- Language: English
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Persuasion
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Greta Scacchi
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a tale of love and marriage told with irony and insight. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth have met and seperated years before. Their reunion, after the passage or irrecoverable years of their youth, forces a recognition of the false values that drove them apart.
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A More Adult Love Affair
- By Chloe on 25-01-15
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Persuasion
- Narrated by: Greta Scacchi
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 01-01-06
- Language: English
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Troy
- The Siege of Troy Retold
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for 10 whole and very bloody years. It is Zeus, the king of the gods, who triggers the war when he asks the Trojan prince Paris to judge the fairest goddess of them all. Aphrodite bribes Paris with the heart of Helen, wife of King Menelaus of the Greeks, and naturally, nature takes its course.
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Chapters?
- By Jason on 03-11-20
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Troy
- The Siege of Troy Retold
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Series: Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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Jane Eyre
- By: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
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The work tells the story of Jane's early life, her experience at Lowood School and as a governess. Her refusal to accept Rochester's love on any but her own strictly moral terms is a passionate cry for independence.
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A wonderful rendition of a classic
- By Kiz on 27-08-17
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Jane Eyre
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 31-07-09
- Language: English
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Sense and Sensibility
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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In this Audible Exclusive production, Academy Award® nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) narrates one of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Sense and Sensibility. In this timeless tale of misguided romance and heartbreak, two teenage heroines must overcome the pitfalls of Georgian England’s high society in order to achieve the love and happiness they seek. The admiration that Pike has for Austen’s work is shown clearly through this passionate delivery of Austen’s first published novel.
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What a great way to hear a classic
- By Mrs. A. Gardner on 13-09-18
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Sense and Sensibility
- Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
- Series: Jane Austen's Novels
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 14-08-18
- Language: English
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The Hidden Girl
- By: Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker
- Narrated by: Anna Madeley
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
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Born and raised in a small village on the Yorkshire moors, Leah Thompson grows more beautiful with each passing day. When she catches the attention of the influential, troubled Delancey family, she knows her life will never be the same again. Years later, Leah takes the modelling world by storm, travelling from Milan to London and New York and living life in the lap of luxury. But her past follows her like a dark shadow, mysteriously intertwined with the tragic tale of two young siblings in Poland during the Second World War.
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Great story
- By Niggle on 02-10-24
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The Hidden Girl
- Narrated by: Anna Madeley
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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The Butterfly Room
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
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Posy Montague is approaching her 70th birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonising decision. The house is crumbling around her, and Posy knows the time has come to sell it. Then a face appears from the past - Freddie, her first love, who abandoned her and left her heartbroken 50 years ago.
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My first ever review
- By Airedaleman on 31-05-19
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The Butterfly Room
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-05-19
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice [Audible Studios]
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Lindsay Duncan
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down.
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First of many
- By DooeyDuck on 19-08-08
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Pride and Prejudice [Audible Studios]
- Narrated by: Lindsay Duncan
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 28-02-06
- Language: English
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The Sea Gate
- By: Jane Johnson
- Narrated by: Anna Cordell
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
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Following the death of her mother, Becky begins the sad task of sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope post-marked from Cornwall. In it is a letter that will change her life forever. A desperate plea from her mother's elderly cousin, Olivia, to help save her beloved home. Becky arrives at Chynalls to find the beautiful old house crumbling into the ground and Olivia stuck in hospital with no hope of being discharged until her home is made habitable.
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Absolutely charming
- By Anthony Robins on 24-11-20
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The Sea Gate
- Narrated by: Anna Cordell
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-09-20
- Language: English
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Viscount in Love
- Accidental Brides, Book 1
- By: Eloisa James
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Suddenly guardian to twins, Viscount Dominic Kelbourne is luckily betrothed to a suitable lady - until she elopes. With no time to woo, Dominic decides to marry his fiancée's unconventional sister. Torie isn't perfect, but their kisses are so passionate that society thinks he's actually chosen her. She doubts Dominic is capable of love, let alone respect, but as their heated debates turn into something more, Torie begins to imagine a life as a wife, not a nanny.
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Viscount in Love
- Accidental Brides, Book 1
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: English
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The Girl on the Cliff
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Gerri Halligan
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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Troubled by recent loss, Grania Ryan has returned to Ireland and the arms of her loving family. It is here, on a cliff edge, that she first meets a young girl, Aurora. Strangely drawn to Aurora, Grania discovers that their families are deeply entwined. From a bittersweet romance in wartime London to a troubled relationship in contemporary New York, the Ryans and the Lisles have been entangled for a century.
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Interesting Family Saga
- By Amazon Customer on 19-07-13
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The Girl on the Cliff
- Narrated by: Gerri Halligan
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 07-03-12
- Language: English
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Dilly's Sacrifice
- By: Rosie Goodwin
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Length: 14 hrs
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Dilly is devastated: with her husband unable to work and four children already at home, they cannot afford to feed their newborn baby. Heartbroken, she delivers her baby girl to the Farthing family, who have just lost their own daughter to measles. This act of desperation will change the lives of both families irrevocably. But when the chance for true love finally comes, will Dilly choose family over her own happiness?
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Very enjoyable & easy to listen to.
- By laatkins on 12-05-16
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Dilly's Sacrifice
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Series: Dilly's Story, Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs
- Release date: 24-09-15
- Language: English
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