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Swimming in the Dark
- By: Tomasz Jedrowski
- Narrated by: Robert Nairne
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike summer swimming in secluded lakes, reading forbidden books - and falling in love. But with summer over, the two are sent back to Warsaw, and to the harsh realities of life under the Party. Exiled from paradise, Ludwik and Janusz must decide how they will survive; and in their different choices, find themselves torn apart.
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gay and joyous
- By Waggy From Derby on 31-05-20
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Swimming in the Dark
- Narrated by: Robert Nairne
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-02-20
- Language: English
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The Eye in the Door
- The second novel in the Booker Prize-winning World War One trilogy
- By: Pat Barker
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. The masterful second novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls WINNER OF THE 1993 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in...
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The opportunity to visualise each character and engage in their lives.
- By Mrs on 05-06-25
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The Eye in the Door
- The second novel in the Booker Prize-winning World War One trilogy
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Series: Regeneration, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-08-21
- Language: English
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The Hunters Club
- The Oxford Mysteries, Book 3
- By: Alis Hawkins
- Narrated by: Ffion Aynsley, Iestyn Arwel
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Oxford, 1883. Young men are being found bound, gagged, and hooded at the gates of their colleges in the small hours. Basil Rice, Jesus College fellow, is asked by the senior proctor to investigate. But investigating matters of sexual purity is dangerous, as it lays Basil open to unwelcome scrutiny of his own private life. Meanwhile, the University Vice Chancellor's Court has wrongly imprisoned a young shopgirl from the town, and she seeks the services of Non Vaughan, a young academic and budding journalist, to clear her name.
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Another great works by Alis Hawkins
- By M on 07-03-26
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The Hunters Club
- The Oxford Mysteries, Book 3
- Narrated by: Ffion Aynsley, Iestyn Arwel
- Series: The Oxford Mysteries, Book 3
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 16-10-25
- Language: English
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Spoiled Milk
- 'A truly impeccable novel' Julia Armfield
- By: Avery Curran
- Narrated by: Charlotte Ryder
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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'A dirty little jewel of a novel' Julia Armfield 'Malory Towers meets The Conjuring' Alice Slater 'Gory, tender, sexy' Krystelle Bamford 'Compulsively readable' Guardian In 1928, Emily Locke's final year at the isolated Briarley School for Girls is derailed when Violet, the school's brightest...
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Spoiled Milk
- 'A truly impeccable novel' Julia Armfield
- Narrated by: Charlotte Ryder
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-03-26
- Language: English
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Orlando
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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Published in 1928, Orlando is a fictional biography that spans several centuries and follows the protagonist, Orlando, an Elizabethan nobleman who undergoes a mysterious gender transformation. The novel explores themes of gender identity, fluidity and the constraints imposed by societal norms. It challenges traditional notions of gender roles and raises questions about the nature of identity and the passage of time.
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Best reader of an extraordinary book
- By Thomas Crawley on 16-04-25
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Orlando
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 22-01-24
- Language: English
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The Paris Express
- a thrilling historical novel about a city on the brink and the people caught up in one woman's dangerous game
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In this riveting historical thriller, a deadly plot unfolds aboard a train hurtling towards Paris. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Room, Emma Donoghue takes you on a heart-pounding ride in The Paris Express. 'Ratchets up the pace until it's hurtling along as fast as the train itself'...
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Train Travel in its Infancy in France.
- By Mary hayes on 02-09-25
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The Paris Express
- a thrilling historical novel about a city on the brink and the people caught up in one woman's dangerous game
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 20-03-25
- Language: English
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Sacred Country
- By: Rose Tremain
- Narrated by: Harrison Knights
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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We're all something else inside.... 1952. Standing in a cold Suffolk field with her family, six-year-old Mary Ward has a revelation: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy. So begins Mary's heroic struggle to change gender. Moving from the claustrophobic rural community of the 1950s to London in the swinging '60s and beyond to the glitter of America in the '70s, Sacred Country is the story of a journey to find a place of safety and fulfilment in a savage and confusing world.
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Transphobic author writing about trans issues
- By Bethany on 26-11-21
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Sacred Country
- Narrated by: Harrison Knights
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 14-12-17
- Language: English
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A Place Called Winter
- Harry Cane, Book 1
- By: Patrick Gale
- Narrated by: Patrick Gale
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall553
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Performance504
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** Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2015 ** To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything. A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his...
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Sectrets, love and loss with an epic backdrop
- By T on 27-03-15
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A Place Called Winter
- Harry Cane, Book 1
- Narrated by: Patrick Gale
- Series: Harry Cane, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 24-03-15
- Language: English
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Taiwan Travelogue
- A Novel
- By: Yang Shuang-Zi, Lin King - translator
- Narrated by: Sarah Skaer
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste its authentic cuisine.
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irritating narration
- By ciara shorley on 06-04-26
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Taiwan Travelogue
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Sarah Skaer
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 25-03-25
- Language: English
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Patience and Sarah
- By: Isabel Miller
- Narrated by: Jean Smart, Janis Ian
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance49
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Set in the 19th century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White and Sarah Dowling, whose romantic bond does not sit well with their puritanical New England community. In addition to being an inspiring love story, the audiobook for Patience and Sarah is an ideal listen for young-adult audiences. It is a story that shows how irrelevant race, religion, and gender are to love, and that loving, and being loved, are what keep us human and sane.
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Good story
- By kat on 30-01-25
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Patience and Sarah
- Narrated by: Jean Smart, Janis Ian
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 15-09-15
- Language: English
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We Are Green and Trembling
- Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026
- By: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Robin Myers - translator
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026** **Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature** A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America’s best-known trans men, Antonio de Erauso From deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso...
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We Are Green and Trembling
- Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 18-06-26
- Language: English
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As a Lover
- By: Hilary McCollum
- Narrated by: Sophie Hunter Scott
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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London. 1928. For centuries, the establishment has suppressed public knowledge of lesbian love. Now, a celebrated writer is set to fight back. Award-winning author, Radclyffe Hall, hopes her new novel, The Well of Loneliness, will transform attitudes to same-sex relationships. It soon comes...
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As a Lover
- Narrated by: Sophie Hunter Scott
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 21-04-26
- Language: English
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Shaken to the Core
- By: Jae
- Narrated by: Samantha Cook
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
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Overall132
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Performance125
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Kate Winthrop, the only child of a wealthy shipping magnate, has the course of her life charted for her by her parents. She's expected to marry well and produce a successor to the Winthrop empire. But Kate has a very different path in mind. Her true passion lies with photography - and with women. Alone in the city after losing her brother, Sicilian immigrant Giuliana Russo starts working for the Winthrops as a maid. Despite their different social status, Kate and Giuliana become friends, much to the dismay of Kate's parents.
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I felt like I was back in San Francisco
- By Emma on 09-04-20
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Shaken to the Core
- Narrated by: Samantha Cook
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 07-04-20
- Language: English
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After Sappho
- By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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After Sappho is Selby Wynn Schwartz's joyous reimagining of the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late 19th and early 20th century as they battle for control over their lives; for liberation and for justice. Sarah Bernhard—Colette—Eleanora Duse—Lina Poletti—Josephine Baker—Virginia Woolf... these are just a few of the women (some famous, others hitherto unsung) sharing the minutes of a novel as fierce as it is luminous—lush and poetic; furious and funny.
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I really wanted to like this book but…
- By valleywriter on 27-06-24
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After Sappho
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-10-22
- Language: English
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The Paris Bookseller
- A sweeping story of love, friendship and betrayal in bohemian 1920s Paris
- By: Kerri Maher
- Narrated by: Lauryn Allman
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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Young, bookish Sylvia Beach knows there is no greater city in the world than Paris. But when she opens an English-language bookshop on the bohemian Left Bank, Sylvia can't yet know she is making history. Many leading writers of the day, from Ernest Hemingway to Gertrude Stein, consider Shakespeare and Company a second home. Here some of the most profound literary friendships blossom - and none more so than between James Joyce and Sylvia herself.
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Easy read
- By Anonymous on 01-01-23
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The Paris Bookseller
- A sweeping story of love, friendship and betrayal in bohemian 1920s Paris
- Narrated by: Lauryn Allman
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 11-01-22
- Language: English
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Last Barrel
- A Speakeasy Novel, 3
- By: Stacy Lynn Miller
- Narrated by: Lori Prince
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Three years after Whiskey War, Dax and Rose live the high life at the Foster House, running the poshest speakeasy on the west coast. Half Moon Bay is about to claim its place as the top tourist destination in Northern California, with a second club and the remodeled Seaside Hotel under Grace Parsons's ownership and Dax's management. Repeal of Prohibition is on the horizon with the prospect of making their illegal liquor businesses legitimate. Dax's fractured friendship with Charlie Dawson is the only blowback from her battle with Frankie Wilkes
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Loved it! ❤️
- By Caroline Jennings on 18-03-26
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Last Barrel
- A Speakeasy Novel, 3
- Narrated by: Lori Prince
- Series: Speakeasy Series, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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Beguiled
- Enlightenment, Volume 2
- By: Joanna Chambers
- Narrated by: Hamish Mckinlay
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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David and Murdo’s last parting was painful - and on Murdo’s part, bitter - but Murdo’s feelings seem to have mellowed in the intervening years. So much so that he suggests to David that they enjoy each other’s company during Murdo’s stay in the capital. Despite his initial reservations, David cannot put Murdo’s proposal from his mind, and soon find himself at Murdo’s door - and in his arms.
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Enjoyable story with excellent narration.
- By Mithrial on 07-07-22
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Beguiled
- Enlightenment, Volume 2
- Narrated by: Hamish Mckinlay
- Series: Enlightenment, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-11-17
- Language: English
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When First I Met My King
- Book One in the Arthur Trilogy
- By: Harper Fox
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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Once upon a time, there was a winter that wouldn't end. And all that stands between the people of White Meadows and starvation is a young man called Lance. Lance is 16 years old, and for all his courage and hunting skills, he's running out of fight. His family has been wiped out in a border raid, and he's drowning in loneliness. When strangers arrive at White Meadows, all Lance can think of is using his last strength to drive them away. But these men have come in peace, not to burn and destroy. Among them is a hot-headed, utterly charming prince-in-training named Arthur.
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Mythical and Eerie
- By Natalie Al-Otaibi on 13-03-26
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When First I Met My King
- Book One in the Arthur Trilogy
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Series: The Arthur Quartet Series, Book 1
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 03-09-21
- Language: English
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Waiting on a Friend
- By: Natalie Adler
- Narrated by: Dani Martineck
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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'A joy to read' Sophie Ward 'Funny, sexy, heartbreaking' Ann Napolitano 'Wildly inventive and moving' Patrick Ryan East Village, summer of 1984. Renata is a young dyke-about-town who has the ability to see ghosts, which has been happening more and more frequently as her friends have started...
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Waiting on a Friend
- Narrated by: Dani Martineck
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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Heap Earth upon It
- By: Chloe Michelle Howarth
- Narrated by: Peter Claffey, Chris Walley, Máiréad Tyers, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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In January, 1965, the growing town of Ballycrea has four new residents. The O’Leary siblings arrive in their new village under suspicious circumstances. Desperate to make a new start and leave their troubled life behind, the O’Learys offer few, contradicting details about their past. As they slowly settle in to town, the siblings are taken under the wing of Betty and Bill Nevan, a wealthy couple in their forties who have always wanted children. However, as one O’Leary sister grows close to Betty, lines are crossed and their intense relationship becomes difficult to define.
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Heap Earth upon It
- Narrated by: Peter Claffey, Chris Walley, Máiréad Tyers, Phillippa Dunne, Various
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 03-02-26
- Language: English
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