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The Slowworm's Song
- Written by: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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An ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a bond with the daughter he barely knows when he receives a summons - to an inquiry into an incident during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It is the return of what Stephen hoped he had outdistanced. Above all, to testify would jeopardise the fragile relationship with his daughter. And if he loses her, he loses everything. Instead, he decides to write her an account of his life: a confession, a defence, a love letter. Also a means of buying time.
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The Slowworm's Song
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2022-03-03
- Language: English
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The Bewitching
- Written by: Jill Dawson
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma, Jilly Bond
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Alice Samuel might be old and sharp-tongued, but she's no fool. Visiting her new neighbours in her Fenland village, she suspects Squire Throckmorton's household is not as God-fearing as it seems and finds the children troubled. What she cannot foresee is that all five daughters will succumb in turn to a terrifying affliction and accuse her of witchcraft—who else to blame than an ugly, black-capped woman with mysterious healing skills?
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The Bewitching
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma, Jilly Bond
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2022-07-07
- Language: English
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Back in the Day
- Written by: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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In this captivating memoir, Melvyn Bragg recalls growing up in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton, from his early childhood during the war to the moment he had to decide between staying on or spreading his wings. This is the tale of a boy who lived in a pub and expected to leave school at 15 yet won a scholarship to Oxford. Derailed by a severe breakdown when he was 13, he developed a passion for reading and study - though that didn't stop him playing in a skiffle band or falling in love.
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Back in the Day
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2022-08-25
- Language: English
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Casanova
- Written by: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Giacomo Casanova arrives in England in the summer of 1763 at the age of 38, seeking a respite from his restless travels and liaisons. But the lure of company proves too hard to resist and the dazzlingly pretty face of young Marie Charpillon even harder. Casanova's pursuit of this elusive bewitcher drives him from exhilaration to despair and to attempt to reinvent himself in the roles of labourer, writer and country squire.
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Casanova
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2019-07-18
- Language: English
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Ingenious Pain
- Written by: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he rises through the ranks of Georgian society to become a brilliant surgeon. Yet as a human being he fails, for he can no more feel love and compassion than pain. Until, en route to St Petersburg to inoculate the Empress Catherine against smallpox, he meets his nemesis and saviour.
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Ingenious Pain
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2019-07-11
- Language: English
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The Last of the Greenwoods
- Written by: Clare Morrall
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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In a field outside Bromsgrove, two elderly brothers live in adjoining railway carriages. No one visits, and they never speak to each other. Until the day Zohra Dasgupta, a young postwoman, delivers an extraordinary letter - from a woman claiming to be the sister they thought had been murdered 50 years earlier.
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The Last of the Greenwoods
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2018-02-08
- Language: English
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Rapture
- Written by: Emily Maguire
- Length: 10 hrs
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The motherless child of an English priest living in ninth-century Mainz, Agnes is a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. At eighteen, to avoid a future as a wife or nun, Agnes enlists the help of a lovesick Benedictine monk to disguise herself as a man and secure a place at the revered Fulda monastery. So begins the life of John the Englishman: a matchless scholar and scribe of Fulda, then a charismatic heretic in an Athens commune and, by her middle years, a celebrated teacher in Rome.
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Rapture
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 2024-10-01
- Language: English
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The Number Bias
- How numbers dominate our world and why that's a problem we need to fix
- Written by: Sanne Blauw, Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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It is not an overstatement to say that numbers dictate the way we live our lives. They tell us how we're doing at school, how much we weigh, who might win an election and whether the economy is booming. But numbers aren't as objective as they may seem; behind every number is a story. Yet politicians, businesses and the media often forget this - or use it for their own gain. Sanne Blauw travels the world to unpick our relationship with numbers and demystify our misguided allegiance....
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The Number Bias
- How numbers dominate our world and why that's a problem we need to fix
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2020-07-09
- Language: English
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The Language of Birds
- the novel inspired by the Lord Lucan affair
- Written by: Jill Dawson
- Narrated by: Ellie Heydon, Eilidh Beaton
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective and brings to vivid life an era when women's voices all too often went unheard. In the summer of 1974, Mandy River arrives in London to make a fresh start and begins working as nanny to the children of one Lady Morven. She quickly finds herself in the midst of a bitter custody battle and the house under siege: Lord Morven is having his wife watched.
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The Language of Birds
- the novel inspired by the Lord Lucan affair
- Narrated by: Ellie Heydon, Eilidh Beaton
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-04
- Language: English
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The Novel in the Viola
- Written by: Natasha Solomons
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlourmaid, she knows nothing about England except that she won't like it. As servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn, Elise wears her mother's pearls beneath her uniform and causes outrage by dancing with a boy called Kit. But war is coming, and the world is changing. And Elise must change with it. At Tyneford she learns that you can be more than one person. And that you can love more than once.
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The Novel in the Viola
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-01
- Language: English
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Walking Wounded
- Written by: Sheila Llewellyn
- Narrated by: Joshua Higgott, Simon Slater
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Set in Northfield, an understaffed military psychiatric hospital immediately before the NHS is founded, Walking Wounded is the story of a doctor and his patient: David Reece, a young journalist-to-be whose wartime experiences in Burma have come back to haunt him violently; and Daniel Carter, one of the senior psychiatrists, a man who is fighting his own battles as well as those of his patients.
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Walking Wounded
- Narrated by: Joshua Higgott, Simon Slater
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2018-01-25
- Language: English
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Now Is the Time
- Written by: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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At the end of May 1381, the 14-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: the plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian poll tax was being widely evaded. Yet Richard, bolstered by his powerful, admired mother, felt secure in his God-given right to reign.
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Now Is the Time
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2015-10-08
- Language: English
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Fell
- Written by: Jenn Ashworth
- Narrated by: Vicky Hall
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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When Annette Clifford returns to her childhood home on the edge of Morecambe Bay, she despairs: the long-empty house is crumbling, undermined by two voracious sycamores. What she doesn't realise is that she's not alone: her arrival has woken the spirits of her parents, who anxiously watch over her, longing to make amends. Because as the past comes back to Jack and Netty, they begin to see the summer of 1963 clearly, when Netty was desperately ill and a stranger moved in.
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Fell
- Narrated by: Vicky Hall
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2016-07-14
- Language: English
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Outskirts
- Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
- Written by: John Grindrod
- Narrated by: Nick Underwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Green belts are part of the landscape and psyche of post-war Britain, but have led to conflicts at every level of society - between conservationists and developers, town and country, politicians and people, nimbys and the forces of progress. Growing up on 'the last road in London' on an estate at the edge of the woods, John Grindrod had a childhood that mirrored these tensions. His family, too, seemed caught between two worlds: his wheelchair-bound mother and soft hearted father had moved from the inner city and had trouble adjusting.
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Outskirts
- Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
- Narrated by: Nick Underwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2017-06-01
- Language: English
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The Crossing
- Written by: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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On the surface Maud and Tim seem ill matched. Maud is a scientist, an only child from a modest background; Tim is a musician from a large, rich family. She is emotionally cool, he wears his heart on his sleeve. Yet they make a home together, have a child and restore an old yacht. One day they will sail it, all three. Then a dreadful tragedy occurs. The strange thing is, Maud appears unscathed by it. Tim's family are horrified - what is wrong with her?
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The Crossing
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2015-08-27
- Language: English
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Rescue
- From Global Crisis to a Better World
- Written by: Ian Goldin
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford. We are at a crossroads. The wrecking-ball of Covid-19 has destroyed global norms. Many think that after the devastation there will be a bounce back. To Ian Goldin, Professor of Development and Globalisation at the University of Oxford, this is a retrograde notion. He believes that this crisis can create opportunities for change, just as the Second World War forged the ideas behind the Beveridge Report.
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Rescue
- From Global Crisis to a Better World
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2021-05-13
- Language: English
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Consumed
- A Sister’s Story
- Written by: Arifa Akbar
- Narrated by: Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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When Arifa Akbar discovered that her sister had fallen seriously ill, she assumed there would be a brief spell in hospital and then she'd be home. This was not to be. It was not until the day before she died that the family discovered she was suffering from tuberculosis. Consumed is a story of sisterhood, grief, the redemptive power of art and the strange mythologies that surround tuberculosis. It takes us from Keats' deathbed and the tubercular women of opera to the resurgence of TB in modern Britain today.
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Consumed
- A Sister’s Story
- Narrated by: Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2021-06-10
- Language: English
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Winter in Tabriz
- Written by: Sheila Llewellyn
- Narrated by: Callum Hughes, Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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Gripping and atmospheric, Winter in Tabriz tells the story of four young people living in 1970s Iran during the months immediately prior to the revolution and the choices they have to make as a result of the ensuing upheaval. The lives of Damian and Anna, both from Oxford University, become enmeshed with two Iranians - Arash, a poet, and his older brother, Reza, a student sympathetic to the problems of the dissident writers in Iran and a would-be photojournalist, interested in capturing the rebellion on the streets.
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Winter in Tabriz
- Narrated by: Callum Hughes, Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2021-07-15
- Language: English
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A Place in England
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 2
- Written by: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Joseph Tallantire has hope and ambition - like his father before him, he is determined to make something of himself and improve his lot. But life is not easy for an uneducated young man in Cumberland before and during World War II, and Joseph's struggle against the odds is the subject of this moving and evocative novel.
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A Place in England
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 2
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Series: The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2015-12-03
- Language: English
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Kingdom Come
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 3
- Written by: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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Douglas Tallentire has at last achieved what his father and grandfather before him fought for so bitterly. Educated and independent, he can carve out his own career and spread his wings. But success, freedom and happiness are more elusive than ever in the fiercely competitive '70s. From Cumbria to the frenetic whirl of sophisticated life in New York and London, Douglas, like all the Tallentires, must come to terms with private uncertainty and pain.
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Kingdom Come
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 3
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Series: The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2015-12-03
- Language: English
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