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The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
- By: Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, Rod Bradbury - translator
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall465
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Performance429
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Story421
79-year-old Martha Anderson, with the aid of her Zimmer frame, is robbing a bank. She’s not past it yet and intends to fund her way to a much more exciting life-style. Except all the cashier can see is a little old lady. So Martha is bundled into a cab and sent back to her atrocious care home...
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The League of Pensioners is looking for funds....
- By Brooksies on 18-05-14
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The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Series: Little Old Lady, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-01-14
- Language: English
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Silk - The Clerks’ Room: Series 1 and 2
- A BBC Radio 4 Drama Based on the BBC TV Series
- By: Mick Collins
- Narrated by: Neil Stuke, John MacMillan, Amy Wren, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance4
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Story4
Inspired by Peter Moffat's popular BBC One show, Silk, this compelling courtroom drama returns to Shoe Lane Chambers, but from a different perspective. Rather than focussing on the lawyers, it centres on the people who can make or break their careers—their clerks.
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Excellent
- By Emily Aherne on 16-07-23
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Silk - The Clerks’ Room: Series 1 and 2
- A BBC Radio 4 Drama Based on the BBC TV Series
- Narrated by: Neil Stuke, John MacMillan, Amy Wren, Theo Barklem-Biggs, full cast
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 16-06-22
- Language: English
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Please Sir!
- By: Jack Sheffield
- Narrated by: Jack Sheffield
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance41
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Story41
A NEW YEAR AT RAGLEY-ON-THE-FOREST SCHOOL... It's 1981, the time of Adam and the Ants, Rubik's Cube, the Sony Walkman and the Falklands War, as head teacher Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley-on-the-Forest School for another rollercoaster year. Vera, the ever-efficient chool secretary, has to...
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A favourite.
- By Paula on 12-01-26
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Please Sir!
- Narrated by: Jack Sheffield
- Series: Teacher, Book 5
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-01-14
- Language: English
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Tales of Para Handy
- By: Neil Munro
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance45
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Story45
Neil Munro's captivating Tales of Para Handy, captain of the "Vital Spark", the "smertest" steamboat ever to sail the River Clyde. Whatever happened to the shaggy dog story? Very few, if any seem to be published these days. Maybe our lives are all too pressurised and full-on to allow us to kick back and listen to an engaging, diverting, well-told tale.
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The West Coast of Scotland
- By James on 10-01-25
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Tales of Para Handy
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 16-09-13
- Language: English
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Orange Blossom Days
- Warmth, wisdom and love on every page - if you treasured Maeve Binchy, read Patricia Scanlan
- By: Patricia Scanlan
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall118
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Performance109
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Story108
*** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER *** In a beautiful southern Spanish town, where the sea sparkles and orange blossoms scent the air, the gates of a brand new apartment complex, La Joya de Andalucía, glide open to welcome the new owners. Anna and Austen MacDonald, an Irish couple, are preparing to...
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a long story that didn't really go anywhere
- By Kez on 26-04-17
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Orange Blossom Days
- Warmth, wisdom and love on every page - if you treasured Maeve Binchy, read Patricia Scanlan
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-03-17
- Language: English
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The Godfather
- The Lost Years
- By: Mark Winegardner
- Narrated by: Joe Grifasi
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Abridged
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Overall44
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Performance34
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Story34
"The bloody victory of the Corleone Family was not complete," begins the final chapter of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, "until a year of delicate manoeuvring established Michael Corleone as the most powerful Family chief in the United States." The Godfather: The Lost Years takes place in the years 1955-65, but it is built upon the story of that "year of delicate political manoeuvring" and how, in winning the battle of that year, Michael Corleone set the stage to lose the war.
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How short the story is
- By Nick on 06-05-25
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The Godfather
- The Lost Years
- Narrated by: Joe Grifasi
- Series: The Godfather Returns (abridged), Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-11-05
- Language: English
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The Universe Versus Alex Woods
- By: Gavin Extence
- Narrated by: Joe Thomas
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall465
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Performance410
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Story409
A tale of an unexpected friendship, an unlikely hero, and an improbable journey, Alex's story treads the fine line between light and dark, laughter and tears. And it might just strike you as one of the funniest, most heartbreaking novels you've ever heard. Alex Woods knows that he hasn't had the most conventional start in life. He knows that growing up with a clairvoyant single mother won't endear him to the local bullies. He also knows that even the most improbable events can happen - he's got the scars to prove it. What he doesn't know yet is that when he meets ill-tempered, reclusive widower Mr Peterson, he'll make an unlikely friend.
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Grows on you!
- By F on 26-05-13
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The Universe Versus Alex Woods
- Narrated by: Joe Thomas
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 31-01-13
- Language: English
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Rumpole
- By: John Mortimer
- Narrated by: Margot Boyd, Maurice Denham
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall158
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Performance133
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Story134
Maurice Denham stars as John Mortimer's famous comic creation Rumpole of the Bailey. Defender of the underdog, friend of South London villains and scourge of QCs, much-loved barrister Horace Rumpole was first brought to life on television, and in 1980 BBC Radio 4 introduced him to the airwaves for a 13-episode series.
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Maurice Denham is marvellous as Rumpole
- By Nigel on 23-11-17
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Rumpole
- Narrated by: Margot Boyd, Maurice Denham
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-11-16
- Language: English
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Meltdown
- By: Ben Elton
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall194
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Performance177
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Story176
For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged and cocaine fuelled. If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended up either dead or in rehab. But Jimmy was as lucky in love as he was at betting on dodgy derivatives, so...
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Good Naration
- By vicki I on 05-10-17
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Meltdown
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 25-02-16
- Language: English
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Mr Phillips
- By: John Lanchester
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance7
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Story7
Mr Phillips wakes on the morning of July 31st in his modest, nearly mortgage-free home, in the bed he has contentedly shared with his wife of 30 years - though to be honest, at night he lies beside her and dreams of other women. He's ready to face another ordinary day. Except that for Mr Phillips, it is not an ordinary day, for on July 28th, he was summarily sacked. Nonetheless, he rises at his usual hour and prepares himself as he has done his entire working life for the office he no longer has.
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Whimsical, poignant and risqué!!
- By susan on 12-05-19
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Mr Phillips
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 22-01-08
- Language: English
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Dime Store Magic
- By: Kelley Armstrong
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall78
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Performance57
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Story57
Paige Winterbourne is a witch. Not that you'd notice - no warts, no green skin, no cute little wiggle of the nose whenever she casts a spell. No, most of the time she's just a normal 23-year-old girl; works too hard, worries about her weight, wonders if she'll ever find a boyfriend. Okay, so she does have an adopted teenage daughter, Savannah, who wants to raise her black witch of a mother from the dead. And who is being stalked by a telekinetic half-demon and an all-powerful cabal of sorcerers.
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I'm biased
- By Jj on 11-05-21
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Dime Store Magic
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Series: Otherworld, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-07-11
- Language: English
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At Night All Blood Is Black
- By: David Diop
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance47
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Story47
Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France. German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open. Without his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone and lost amidst the savagery of the conflict. He devotes himself to the war, to violence and death, but soon begins to frighten even his own comrades in arms. How far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?
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So beautifully narrated
- By JET OMOSHEBI on 18-07-24
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At Night All Blood Is Black
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 06-10-21
- Language: English
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Find Me
- By: André Aciman
- Narrated by: Michael Stuhlbarg
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall445
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Performance390
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Story389
In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever. Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic. Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion.
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I'm sad I didnt pick it up sooner
- By FENARETI on 24-01-20
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Find Me
- Narrated by: Michael Stuhlbarg
- Series: Call Me By Your Name, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 29-10-19
- Language: English
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Stern Men
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
On two remote islands off the coast of Maine, the local lobstermen have fought savagely for generations over the fishing rights to the ocean waters between them. Young Ruth Thomas is born into this feud, the daughter of one of the greediest lobstermen in Maine. Eighteen years old, as smart as a whip and irredeemably unromantic, Ruth returns home from boarding school determined to throw her education overboard and join the 'stern men'.
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Witty and Warm
- By C on 16-03-26
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Stern Men
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 23-04-18
- Language: English
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The Wedding
- By: Nicholas Sparks
- Narrated by: Tom Wopat
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance57
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Story57
After 30 years of marriage, Wilson is forced to face a painful truth. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun (originally recounted in The Notebook), and their 50-year love affair, Wilson is unable to express his true feelings. With his daughter about to marry and his wife thinking about leaving him, Wilson knows it is time to act. He will do anything he can to save his marriage.
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Fantastic, can never guess the ending
- By MR B WEBSTER on 29-03-22
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The Wedding
- Narrated by: Tom Wopat
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 31-01-19
- Language: English
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Für Polina
- By: Takis Würger
- Narrated by: Robert Stadlober
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Story4
Als er vierzehn ist, verliebt sich Hannes Prager in das Mädchen Polina. Um ihr seine Liebe zu zeigen, komponiert der wundersam begabte Junge eine Melodie, die Polinas ganzes Wesen und Wünschen umfasst. Kurz danach stirbt Hannes’ Mutter bei einem Unfall, mit ihr stirbt seine Musik, und Polina verschwindet aus seinem Leben. Nach Jahren, in denen er nichts als Leere fühlt, erkennt Hannes: Er muss Polina wiederfinden. Doch das Einzige, womit er sie erreichen kann, ist ihre Melodie.
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Wunderschön
- By Louisa Danne on 26-01-26
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Für Polina
- Narrated by: Robert Stadlober
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 26-02-25
- Language: German
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A Kiss Before Dying
- Introduction by Chelsea Cain
- By: Ira Levin
- Narrated by: Mauro Hantman
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance75
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Story75
Dorothy meets a handsome young man with an eye for her inheritance while she is in her sophomore year. They are to be married and her life will be blissful; but Dorothy is pregnant and her fiancé's plans are ruined, for Dorothy would be disinherited if her father discovered the truth. So the...
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Superb
- By L. Black on 24-11-20
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A Kiss Before Dying
- Introduction by Chelsea Cain
- Narrated by: Mauro Hantman
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 30-03-17
- Language: English
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Only Say the Word
- By: Niall Williams
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance14
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Story14
Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens and God; later, he loves Kate -- enough to make her his wife and to shape his life around her -- and later still, he loves his children, Jack and Hannah. Only Say the Word tells Jim's story, and the story of the people and places in...
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The characters are real people
- By emd on 09-02-26
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Only Say the Word
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 31-07-14
- Language: English
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Someone Who Isn’t Me
- By: Geoff Rickly
- Narrated by: Geoff Rickly
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone who no longer recognizes himself. When Geoff hears that a drug called ibogaine might be able to save him from his heroin addiction, he goes to a clinic in Mexico to confront the darkest and most destructive versions of himself. In this modern reimagining of the Divine Comedy, survival lurks in the darkest corners of Geoff’s brain, asking, will he make it? Can anyone?
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incredible storytelling and narration
- By Emma on 30-11-25
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Someone Who Isn’t Me
- Narrated by: Geoff Rickly
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-11-25
- Language: English
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Pictures of Lily
- By: Paige Toon
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall138
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Performance123
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Story124
'Will you marry me?' I think of you, then. I think of you every day. But usually in the quietest part of the morning, or the darkest part of the night. Not when my boyfriend of two years has just proposed. I look up at Richard with his hopeful eyes. 'Lily?' he prompts. It's been ten years, but...
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Jane Collingwood is great at bringing PT to life!
- By CurlyBR on 19-11-16
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Pictures of Lily
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 15-12-10
- Language: English
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