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The Night Watch
- By: Sarah Waters
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall707
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Performance347
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Story351
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners, three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy.
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Atmospheric and gripping
- By Karen on 26-03-06
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The Night Watch
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 10-02-06
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Past
- Shadow Series, Book 1
- By: J.E. Leak
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance48
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New York City, 1943. From jazz clubs to back alleys, passion and peril collide in this slow-burn sapphic love story that simmers through every twist and turn. Nightclub singer–turned–OSS spy Kathryn Hammond has a past she can’t outrun and a mission she can’t afford to fail. But when fearless reporter Jenny Ryan becomes her assignment, sparks fly and everything starts to unravel.
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I would give it more than 5 stars if possible.
- By Anonymous on 20-04-26
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In the Shadow of the Past
- Shadow Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Series: Shadow, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 04-05-22
- Language: English
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The Stranger's Child
- From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty
- By: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
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Sunday Times Novel of the Year Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet...
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Superb narration
- By davidmcewen on 30-01-25
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The Stranger's Child
- From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 19-10-23
- Language: English
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Affinity
- By: Sarah Waters
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall329
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Performance294
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Set in and around the women's prison at Milbank in the 1870's, Affinity is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing literary mystery, and a poignant love story with an unexpected twist in the tale. Following the death of her father, Margaret Prior has decided to pursue some 'good work' with the lady criminals of one of London's most notorious gaols. Surrounded by prisoners, murderers, and common thieves, Margaret feels herself drawn to one of the prison's more unlikely inmates.
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Slow going at first but speeds up well.
- By iris on 26-10-14
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Affinity
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-09-14
- Language: English
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Girls Girls Girls
- By: Shoshana von Blanckensee
- Narrated by: Rachel F. Hirsch, Shoshana von Blanckensee
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Finalist for the 2026 LAMBDA Literary Award Finalist for the 2025 CALIBA Golden Poppy Award Longlisted for the 2026 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award "Jam-packed with queer angst and queer joy . . . and a truly incredible amount of heart. I devoured this novel." —Kristen Arnett, New York Times...
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Really enjoyed
- By Amazon Customer on 24-06-25
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Girls Girls Girls
- Narrated by: Rachel F. Hirsch, Shoshana von Blanckensee
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 17-06-25
- Language: English
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The Swimming Pool Library
- By: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall358
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Performance281
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Story281
This novel centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography.
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Gay lit. of the highest order
- By common reader on 14-01-09
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The Swimming Pool Library
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 19-09-06
- Language: English
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Orlando
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Mason Alexander Park
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Meet Orlando: a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, poet, lover, adventurer—and, after a transformational sleep, a woman. Spanning over 300 years of British history, Orlando bends the rules of time, gender, and narrative as its protagonist navigates shifting societies, identities, and expectations, all while seeking something elusive: the truth of the self. Playful, profound, and radically ahead of its time, Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel is part love letter, part satire, and part meditation on the fluid nature of existence.
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Like a lion purring in my ear holes
- By Anonymous on 18-03-26
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Orlando
- Narrated by: Mason Alexander Park
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-09-25
- Language: English
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The Half Life of Valery K
- By: Natasha Pulley
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall244
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Performance219
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In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive. On one ordinary day, Valery’s university mentor steps in and sweeps him from the prison camp to an unnamed town hidden in a forest so damaged it looks like the trees have rusted from within. Here, Valery is Dr. Kolkhanov once more, and he’s expected to serve out his prison term studying the effect of radiation on local animals. As he begins his work, he is struck by the questions his research raises: what, exactly, is being hidden from the thousands who live in the town?
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Loved every minute
- By Erdferkel on 02-07-22
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The Half Life of Valery K
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-06-22
- Language: English
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Fingersmith
- A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Shortlisted
- By: Sarah Waters
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 23 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,633
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A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK (BOOKER PRIZE GEMS) London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'. But from the moment she draws breath, Sue's fate is linked to that of...
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Brilliant!
- By joanna on 02-10-14
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Fingersmith
- A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Shortlisted
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 23 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 25-09-14
- Language: English
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You Will Be Safe Here
- By: Damian Barr
- Narrated by: Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance83
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South Africa, 1901, the height of the second Boer War. Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise, they will be safe. Johannesburg, 2010. Sixteen-year-old outsider Willem just wants to be left alone with his books and his dog. Worried he’s not turning out right, his ma and her boyfriend send him to New Dawn Safari Training Camp. Here they ‘make men out of boys’. Guaranteed.
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Superb, brutal. Must read
- By RHIANNON JENKINS TSANG on 07-06-19
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You Will Be Safe Here
- Narrated by: Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 28-03-19
- Language: English
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Fellow Travelers
- By: Thomas Mallon
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
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Overall18
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In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim's first job and, after Fuller's advances, his first love affair.
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Too much history, not enough story
- By James on 14-03-24
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Fellow Travelers
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 24-10-23
- Language: English
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Havisham
- By: Elle Machray
- Narrated by: Alby Baldwin
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Jilted bride. Mad witch. Tragic villainess. This time, she will have her revenge. ‘Dazzling’ HEAT MAGAZINE ‘This is a novel of enormous élan’ THE TIMES Charlotte Havisham has a secret. She's been underestimated for too long: by her former fiancé, Compeyson; by her family; and by...
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Havisham
- Narrated by: Alby Baldwin
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 07-05-26
- Language: English
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Frankissstein
- A Love Story
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: John Sackville, Perdita Weeks, Harrison Knights
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall209
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Performance194
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** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 ** Brought to you by Penguin. From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love...
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Ron, the sex bot salesman, steals the show!
- By miss s wilkinson on 23-01-20
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Frankissstein
- A Love Story
- Narrated by: John Sackville, Perdita Weeks, Harrison Knights
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 28-05-19
- Language: English
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Das Meer der Lügen
- Ein Lord-John-Roman
- By: Diana Gabaldon, Barbara Schnell - Übersetzerin
- Narrated by: Robert Frank
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Dramatisch, abenteuerlich, hochspannend: der erste Roman aus Diana Gabaldons historischer Bestseller-Reihe um die beliebteste Nebenfigur der Outlander-Saga, Lord John Grey. Der britische Offizier Lord John Grey ist eben erst aus dem schottischen Exil nach Hause zurückgekehrt, als ihn im London des Jahres 1757 neues Ungemach erwartet: Er erhält den prekären Auftrag, vertrauliche Papiere aufzuspüren, die der britischen Armee gestohlen wurden – vermutlich von einem der eigenen Soldaten!
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Das Meer der Lügen
- Ein Lord-John-Roman
- Narrated by: Robert Frank
- Series: Die Lord-John-Reihe, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 22-05-26
- Language: German
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An Unsuitable Heir
- Sins of the Cities, Book 3
- By: KJ Charles
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall163
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Performance153
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On the trail of an aristocrat's secret son, enquiry agent Mark Braglewicz finds his quarry in a music hall, performing as a trapeze artist with his twin sister. Graceful, beautiful, elusive, and strong, Pen Starling is like nobody Mark's ever met - and everything he's ever wanted. But the long-haired acrobat has an earldom and a fortune to claim.
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Loved it
- By Samuel on 24-08-21
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An Unsuitable Heir
- Sins of the Cities, Book 3
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Series: Sins of the Cities, Book 3
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-10-17
- Language: English
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Seven Summer Nights
- By: Harper Fox
- Narrated by: Chris Clog
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
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Overall197
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Performance181
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It's 1946, and the dust of World War Two has just begun to settle. When famous archaeologist Rufus Denby returns to London, his life and reputation are as devastated as the city around him. He's used to the most glamorous of excavations, but can't turn down the offer of a job in rural Sussex. It's a refuge, and the only means left to him of scraping a living. With nothing but his satchel and a mongrel dog he's rescued from a bomb site, he sets out to investigate an ancient church in the sleepy village of Droyton.
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Exquisite narration, my fave Harper Fox...
- By BevS on 03-03-18
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Seven Summer Nights
- Narrated by: Chris Clog
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 14-11-17
- Language: English
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Band Sinister
- By: KJ Charles
- Narrated by: Cornell Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Overall159
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Performance146
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Sir Philip Rookwood is the disgrace of the county. He's a rake and an atheist, and the rumors about his hellfire club, the Murder, can only be spoken in whispers. (Orgies. It's orgies.) Guy Frisby and his sister, Amanda, live in rural seclusion after a family scandal. But when Amanda breaks her leg in a riding accident, she's forced to recuperate at Rookwood Hall, where Sir Philip is hosting the Murder. Guy rushes to protect her, but the Murder aren't what he expects. Sir Philip turns out to be charming, kind - and dangerously attractive.
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I think this is my absolute favourite audiobook!
- By Chriss on 04-05-20
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Band Sinister
- Narrated by: Cornell Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 19-03-19
- Language: English
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The Sealed Letter
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Overall83
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Performance57
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Based on a real-life scandal that gripped England in 1864. From the bestselling author of Room, Emma Donoghue's The Sealed Letter is a delicious tale of secrets, betrayal, and forbidden love. Helen Codrington is unhappily married. Emily 'Fido' Faithfull hasn't seen her once-dear friend for years...
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Wasted 12 hours of my life listening to this
- By C on 29-12-14
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The Sealed Letter
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 15-05-12
- Language: English
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Briefly, a Delicious Life
- A 'wildly seductive' [Sarah Waters] ghostly historical love story
- By: Nell Stevens
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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'A gorgeous, wildly seductive novel, shimmering with intelligence, humour and joy' - Sarah Waters Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize In 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her children travel to a monastery in Mallorca. They are there to create and to convalesce, to live a simple life...
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Stunning
- By M. Gartland on 23-10-25
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Briefly, a Delicious Life
- A 'wildly seductive' [Sarah Waters] ghostly historical love story
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 23-06-22
- Language: English
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Backwards to Oregon
- By: Jae
- Narrated by: Hayden Bishop
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
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Overall145
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“Luke” Hamilton has always been sure she’d never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man. After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet and take her away to begin a new, respectable life. But now, they find themselves married and on the way to Oregon in a covered wagon, with 2,000 miles ahead of them.
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The best surprise I've ever read/listened to
- By Louise on 27-09-19
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Backwards to Oregon
- Narrated by: Hayden Bishop
- Series: The Oregon Series, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 14-03-19
- Language: English
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