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Diary of a Dead Man on Leave
- A Novel
- By: David Downing
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson, David de Vries
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow's son, who was 11 years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he should never have written any of its contents down. What Walter finds is a scathing chronicle of one the most tumultuous years in German history, narrated by a secret agent on a deadly mission.
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Addicted from the start
- By mrs s j shiel on 16-08-24
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Diary of a Dead Man on Leave
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson, David de Vries
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 02-04-19
- Language: English
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Bad Bad Girl
- A Novel
- By: Gish Jen
- Narrated by: Jen Zhao, Gish Jen
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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L.A. TIMES 15 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR TIME "100 BEST" RUPAUL'S BOOK CLUB PICK An engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship. “A transcendent work of art.” —Boston Globe “Gish Jen has written the multigenerational...
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Bad Bad Girl
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jen Zhao, Gish Jen
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 21-10-25
- Language: English
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The Princess
- By: Wendy Holden
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Britain, 1961. A beautiful blonde baby is born to Viscount Althorp, heir to the Spencer earldom. But Diana grows up amid the fallout of her parents’ messy divorce. She struggles at school. Her refuge throughout is romantic novels. She dreams of falling in love and being rescued by a handsome prince. In royal circles, there is concern about the Prince of Wales. Charles is nearing 30, and the right girl needs to be found fast. She must be young, aristocratic and completely free of past liaisons. Pure and innocent.
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The Princess
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Series: Royal Outsiders, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 17-08-23
- Language: English
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
- By: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge) has been described as an anti-novel. It is set in Paris in the period just before the First World War, but it presents a bleaker milieu than that described by Proust. The language is terse, the atmosphere painful, the images uncompromising. Rilke drew on the short period he spent in Paris in 1903 where, in contrast to the rural circumstances in which he had lived before, he found the underbelly of urban life distressing.
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One of my favorite novels...
- By Anonymous on 19-09-23
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-12-20
- Language: English
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L'adversaire
- By: Emmanuel Carrère
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Carrère
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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« Le 9 janvier 1993, Jean-Claude Romand a tué sa femme, ses enfants, ses parents, puis tenté, mais en vain, de se tuer lui-même. L'enquête a révélé qu'il n'était pas médecin comme il le prétendait et, chose plus difficile encore à croire, qu'il n'était rien d'autre. Il mentait depuis dix-huit ans, et ce mensonge ne recouvrait rien. Près d'être découvert, il a préféré supprimer ceux dont il ne pouvait supporter le regard. Il a été condamné à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité.
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L'adversaire
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Carrère
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 14-09-23
- Language: French
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The Danish Girl
- By: David Ebershoff
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: what do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate.
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"Nature's geatest mishap corrected at last"
- By Rachel Redford on 27-12-15
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The Danish Girl
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 17-12-15
- Language: English
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Joseph and His Brothers Book 2: Young Joseph
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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In this second volume subtitled ‘Young Joseph’, Mann shifts his focus to Joseph’s formative years, moving towards the novel’s ultimate conclusion where he is imprisoned by his brothers and sold into slavery.
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Enjoyable
- By derek waters on 23-02-26
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Joseph and His Brothers Book 2: Young Joseph
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Series: Joseph and His Brothers, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 19-06-25
- Language: English
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Looking for Jane
- By: Heather Marshall
- Narrated by: Sarah Borges
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on the true story of the Jane Collective, an illegal underground abortion service, Looking for Jane reimagines the fraught battle for reproductive rights and the women who demanded the right to choose. Spanning decades, Evelyn, Nancy and Angela's lives intertwine to reveal the devastating consequences that come from a lack of choice and the buried truths that will always find a way to the surface.
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the message
- By ClaireC on 26-01-25
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Looking for Jane
- Narrated by: Sarah Borges
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-03-22
- Language: English
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Cleopatra
- A Novel
- By: Saara El-Arifi
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife. “Enchanting, smart, and subversive—this is El-Arifi’s masterpiece”—RF Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis...
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Cleopatra
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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Evelina & Dear Little Burney
- Two BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: Fanny Burney
- Narrated by: Laura Doddington, Timothy West, Juliet Aubrey, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Before Jane Austen, there was Fanny Burney. In the 1780s, she was England’s most celebrated female author, having achieved extraordinary success with two hit novels. She went on to become a royal servant, marry an exile from the French Revolution and undergo a gruelling mastectomy without the aid of anaesthetic – all events chronicled in her diaries, which were published posthumously to great acclaim. Contained here are dramatisations of her first and most famous novel, and her remarkable journals and letters.
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Evelina & Dear Little Burney
- Two BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
- Narrated by: Laura Doddington, Timothy West, Juliet Aubrey, Eleanor Bron, full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-06-25
- Language: English
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Maria
- A Novel of Maria von Trapp
- By: Michelle Moran
- Narrated by: Candida Gubbins, Jennifer Woodward
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of Maria von Trapp: a novice nun sent to teach a widowed baron's sickly child. Yet much of Maria's life will have to be reinvented for THE SOUND OF MUSIC. When Maria sees the script that is supposedly based on her life, she becomes so incensed that she sets off to confront Hammerstein in person. Told that he's busy, she is asked to express her concerns to his secretary Fran instead. The pair strike up an unlikely friendship as Maria tells Fran about her life.
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What the real story
- By J. M. Lowther on 11-01-26
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Maria
- A Novel of Maria von Trapp
- Narrated by: Candida Gubbins, Jennifer Woodward
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 30-07-24
- Language: English
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Rousseau's Lost Children
- By: Gavin McCrea
- Narrated by: Heather Long, Patrick Moy
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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'Inventive, intimate, often devastating . . . packs a heavy emotional punch, producing a deeply affecting account of power and connection and its ability to entrap us, even in love' Irish Times 'Smart, formally playful, and psychologically astute, Rousseau's Lost Children is a novel of ideas...
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Rousseau's Lost Children
- Narrated by: Heather Long, Patrick Moy
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 26-02-26
- Language: English
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Finding Margaret Fuller
- A Novel
- By: Allison Pataki
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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A “sweeping” (Entertainment Weekly) novel of America’s forgotten leading lady, the central figure of a movement that defined a nation—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post “Soul-stirring . . . brings to life the epic and inspiring story of...
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Made me cry
- By Rae on 18-10-24
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Finding Margaret Fuller
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 19-03-24
- Language: English
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This Is Where the Serpent Lives
- By: Daniyal Mueenuddin
- Narrated by: Daniyal Mueenuddin
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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A stunning new work from universally acclaimed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose debut short story collection won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026: Town & Country, Bustle, AARP...
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This Is Where the Serpent Lives
- Narrated by: Daniyal Mueenuddin
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 13-01-26
- Language: English
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Man in White
- By: Johnny Cash
- Narrated by: Webb Wilder
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The only novel written by the legendary songwriter and performer, Johnny Cash—the incredible story of the apostle Paul. In this historical novel about the life of Paul before and after his conversion, discover the passionate, fiery, and destructive man once known as Saul of Tarsus. Paul's...
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Essential book for every Bible scholar
- By Mrs Barbara Davies on 11-03-24
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Man in White
- Narrated by: Webb Wilder
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-04-18
- Language: English
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Trying
- By: Emily Phillips
- Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Written by Grazia magazine's Features Director, this is a novel about a woman who is trying, and so far failing, to conceive. A hugely funny, searingly honest comedy about what to expect when you're not expecting. Olivia and Felix are trying for a baby. They even moved to the suburbs in anticipation of their future family. But despite approaching her cycle and their sex life with military precision, there's still no sign of what felt like the sure next step, whilst friends' broods seem to be growing by the week.
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Tonic to the soul
- By Sarah on 19-06-20
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Trying
- Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 25-01-18
- Language: English
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Where Butterflies Go
- By: Debra Doxer
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Meira Sokolow had the misfortune of being born to Jewish parents in Warsaw, Poland, in 1912. Before she took her first breath, her fate had been sealed. Residing in the Jewish Quarter of the city, Meira's early life was typical. She fell in love with a local boy, got married, and had a daughter. Then the German army marched into Warsaw and everything changed. Forced into the ghetto with her family, she found survival to be a daily struggle. Hunger, disease, and unimaginable cruelty were her stark realities.
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A well written story about the horrors of WW2 and life afterwards
- By Lynsey B on 27-12-25
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Where Butterflies Go
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 24-08-21
- Language: English
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Self-Portraits
- Stories
- By: Osamu Dazai
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In these short stories, collected and translated by Ralph McCarthy, we can see just how closely Dazai’s life mirrored his art, and vice versa, as the writer/narrator falls from grace, rises to fame, and falls again. Addiction, debt, shame, and despair dogged Dazai until his self-inflicted death, and yet despite all the lies and deception he resorted to in life, there is an almost fanatical honesty to his writing.
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Self-Portraits
- Stories
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 18-03-24
- Language: English
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Nest of the Gyrfalcon: Book Two of the Story of Eleanor of Aquitaine
- The Heirs of Anarchy, Book 6
- By: G. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Lucy Archer-Woodcock
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Spring 1152. Once she was a Queen, and will become so again... Eleanor of Aquitaine has escaped her marriage to Louis of France, as well as various lords bent on capturing her and forcing her into marriage with them, and is safe in her homeland once more. Sending a message to Henry, Duke of Normandy, Eleanor arranges her second marriage, this time to a lord of her choosing, a man already in possession of an empire of his own, an heir to the English throne about to take back the crown stolen from his mother, the Empress Matilda.
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Nest of the Gyrfalcon: Book Two of the Story of Eleanor of Aquitaine
- The Heirs of Anarchy, Book 6
- Narrated by: Lucy Archer-Woodcock
- Series: The Heirs of Anarchy, Book 6
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 13-03-25
- Language: English
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Die Assistentin
- By: Caroline Wahl
- Narrated by: Caroline Wahl
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Eine Karriere als Musikerin – das war eigentlich Charlottes größter Wunsch. Aber jetzt ist es ja eh zu spät, und sie muss sich um einen vernünftigen Job kümmern, schon wegen der Eltern. Sie findet eine Stelle in einem Verlag, auch nicht schlecht, und München ist eine schöne Stadt, vor allem im Sommer. Im Vorzimmer des Verlegers sitzt Charlotte ganz nah am Zentrum der Macht. Dass der seine Assistentinnen oft auswechselt, kriegt sie schnell mit.
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Die Assistentin
- Narrated by: Caroline Wahl
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: German
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