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The White Octopus Hotel
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB AWARD 2026
- By: Alexandra Bell
- Narrated by: Mei Mei MacLeod
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Journey to a magical hotel in the Swiss Alps, where two lost souls living in different centuries meet and discover that behind its many doors, they may just find a second chance. ‘Have you travelled a long way?’ she asked carefully. A smile twitched at the corner...
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Wonderful story
- By Mrs P M J Zapata on 05-03-26
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The White Octopus Hotel
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB AWARD 2026
- Narrated by: Mei Mei MacLeod
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 28-10-25
- Language: English
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Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore
- A charming, must-read 2026 cosy fantasy romance debut with grumpy/sunshine vibes, small-town magic, and heartwarming second chances
- By: Emily Krempholtz
- Narrated by: Emma Ladji
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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'Charming . . . A romance that, gently and pleasantly, asks questions about power and its uses.' The New York Times 'I have rarely read a book so charming...Violet Thistlewaite might not be a villain anymore, but she's definitely stolen my heart.' Ashley Poston, New York Times bestselling author...
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Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore
- A charming, must-read 2026 cosy fantasy romance debut with grumpy/sunshine vibes, small-town magic, and heartwarming second chances
- Narrated by: Emma Ladji
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 18-11-25
- Language: English
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- 20th Anniversary Edition
- By: Susanna Clarke
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 36 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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"Richard Armitage...steps in and sweeps us away on his deep, velvety voice, one much worth the marathon listening time. Listeners will know they are in for a treat immediately as they hear his voice change between reading the front matter and the first moments of the novel...this new edition...
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- 20th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 36 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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The Full Moon Coffee Shop
- The Full Moon Coffee Shop, Book 1
- By: Mai Mochizuki
- Narrated by: Sadao Ueda, Tomoko Komura, Yuriri Naka
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance25
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Based on the Japanese myth of cats returning favours to humans who are kind to them, "The Full Moon Coffee Shop" is the name of a peculiar cake cafe that is run by talking cats, which has no fixed location and instead materialises unpredictably on the night of a full moon. The protagonists of this story - a successful female scriptwriter in crisis, a heartbroken tv director, and two male entrepreneurs - all end up there in the middle of the night, in a dream-like state, and receive life-changing advice on love, work, and relationships from a cat who interprets his guests' astrological chart.
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Nice idea but not quite there
- By Laura Noble on 29-01-25
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The Full Moon Coffee Shop
- The Full Moon Coffee Shop, Book 1
- Narrated by: Sadao Ueda, Tomoko Komura, Yuriri Naka
- Series: The Full Moon Coffee Shop, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 29-08-24
- Language: English
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Upon a Frosted Star
- By: M.A. Kuzniar
- Narrated by: Jamie Myles, Christina Parracho
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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‘An enchanting new twist on a classic tale’ Elodie Harper When the snow falls, she will be free… The invitations always arrive the same way – without warning, appearing around the city on the first snowfall of the year, simply inscribed with ‘Tonight.’ When struggling artist, Forster...
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Too much! And yet not enough!
- By Sarah Wood on 16-12-25
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Upon a Frosted Star
- Narrated by: Jamie Myles, Christina Parracho
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 21-09-23
- Language: English
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The Lantern of Lost Memories
- A charming and heartwarming story for fans of cosy Japanese fiction
- By: Sanaka Hiiragi
- Narrated by: Hanako Footman
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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One photograph, one treasured memory, one chance to go back . . . If you could relive one day of your life, which would you choose? In a cosy photography studio in the mountains between this world and the next, someone is waking up as if from a dream. A kind man will hand them a hot cup of tea...
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Simply beautiful
- By Wedgewood on 12-09-25
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The Lantern of Lost Memories
- A charming and heartwarming story for fans of cosy Japanese fiction
- Narrated by: Hanako Footman
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 22-08-24
- Language: English
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The Soul Catchers
- The Japanese magical realism modern classic, perfect for fans of Before The Coffee Gets Cold
- By: Naoko Higashi, Lucy North - translator
- Narrated by: Sadao Ueda, Yuriri Naka
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A JAPANESE MODERN CLASSIC Discover the highly original and moving literary gem for fans of Banana Yoshimoto and Kawaguchi's BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD What if you could come back after death to watch over your loved one, installing yourself in a treasured mug, for...
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The Soul Catchers
- The Japanese magical realism modern classic, perfect for fans of Before The Coffee Gets Cold
- Narrated by: Sadao Ueda, Yuriri Naka
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 19-03-26
- Language: English
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Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
- A Novel
- By: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Jull Costa Margaret - translator, Robin Patterson - translator
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Machado de Assis’ classic novel, the precursor of Latin American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly relevant work for 21st-century audiences. In eloquent, contemporary prose, Costa and Patterson breathe new life into the dynamic character of Brás Cubas and reveal the vivid, tempestuous Rio de Janeiro of his time. The recently deceased Cubas narrates his life story, admitting glibly: “I am not so much a writer who has died, as a dead man who has decided to write.”
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Playful romp through a life
- By R. Hunter on 15-09-25
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Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 14-12-20
- Language: English
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All's Well
- By: Mona Awad
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance42
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Story42
"A dazzling wild ride of a novel – daring, fresh, entertaining, and magical. Mona Awad is a powerful and poetic storyteller, telling us something new and profound here about the connection between suffering and elation. When I was away from this book, I longed to get back to it." — George...
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All's well
- By Amazon Customer on 20-02-23
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All's Well
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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The Phoenix Pencil Company
- By: Allison King
- Narrated by: Carolyn Kang, Jodi Long, Sura Siu, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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‘Absorbing’ GUARDIAN ‘Magical’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ‘Suspenseful’ MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘Wildly inventive’ LIZ MOORE A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK In this dazzling debut novel, a young reclusive coder unearths the story of a lost Shanghai pencil company and a legacy of magic...
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A Happy Surprise
- By Dixie_Chick on 07-08-25
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The Phoenix Pencil Company
- Narrated by: Carolyn Kang, Jodi Long, Sura Siu, Crystal Yu
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 03-06-25
- Language: English
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Grim Tidings
- By: B.K. Borison
- Narrated by: Stephen Dexter, Angelina Rocca
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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✨Pre-order the brand-new, magical, cosy paranormal romance from instant Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestseller B.K. Borison, author of And Now, Back To You and Good Spirits, now!✨ *** 'No one combines whimsy, humor, and heat as perfectly as B.K. Borison' ALI HAZELWOOD *** Darcy Moore...
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Grim Tidings
- Narrated by: Stephen Dexter, Angelina Rocca
- Series: Ghosted, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 15-09-26
- Language: English
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The Woman in the Dunes
- By: Kobo Abe
- Narrated by: Julian Cihi
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance75
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The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit...
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Underwhelmed
- By corinne on 24-07-20
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The Woman in the Dunes
- Narrated by: Julian Cihi
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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Broken Light
- By: Joanne Harris
- Narrated by: Imogen Stubbs
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall160
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Performance151
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Bernie Moon's ambitions and dreams have been forgotten by everyone else - including Bernie herself. At 19 she was full of promise, but now facing 50 and going through the menopause, she's a fading light. Until the murder of a woman in a local park unlocks a series of childhood memories, and with them, a talent that she has hidden all her adult life. What happens when the frustrations and power of an older woman are finally given their chance to be revealed?
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Shame!
- By Jane on 28-01-24
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Broken Light
- Narrated by: Imogen Stubbs
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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Beauty Is a Wound
- By: Eka Kurniawan
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole functions as a scathing critique of his young nation's troubled past: the rapacious offhand greed of colonialism....
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what a story!
- By Amazon Customer on 19-11-20
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Beauty Is a Wound
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-01-16
- Language: English
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Midnight's Children
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Nikesh Patel, Meera Syal, Anneika Rose, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations. From that moment on, his fate is mysteriously handcuffed to the history of his country. But Saleem's story starts almost 30 years earlier, when his grandfather, Dr Aadam Aziz, falls in love with a woman concealed behind a perforated sheet. That pivotal moment in Kashmir in 1919 sparks a series of bizarre events that will lead to the birth of a boy with an extraordinary destiny.
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Another fantastic dramatisation by the BBC
- By Nigel on 18-09-17
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Midnight's Children
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- Narrated by: Nikesh Patel, Meera Syal, Anneika Rose, Preeya Kalidas, Aysha Kala, full cast
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 14-09-17
- Language: English
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Magic and the Shinigami Detective
- The Case Files of Henri Davenforth, Book 1
- By: Honor Raconteur
- Narrated by: Donovan Hughes, Dallas Boudreaux
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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When the Night Foxes boldly break into the Fourth Precinct’s Evidence Building, it causes quite the stir. As a Magical Examiner, Henri Davenforth is immediately called in. To his astonishment, Captain Gregson has him work the case like a detective. More astounding, he assigns Henri a partner - The Shinigami Detective. The woman is famous for killing the most destructive rogue witch of the century, and no one is quite certain where she’s from. Every officer in the precinct is either in awe of her, or a little frightened by her. Henri is just baffled.
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I loved the gentle tone and superb performance
- By Mark on 08-03-22
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Magic and the Shinigami Detective
- The Case Files of Henri Davenforth, Book 1
- Narrated by: Donovan Hughes, Dallas Boudreaux
- Series: The Case Files of Henri Davenforth, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-01-22
- Language: English
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The Book Witch
- A Magical Love Letter To Books, Book Boyfriends And Storytelling
- By: Meg Shaffer
- Narrated by: Gemma Acosta
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Rainy March is a proud third-generation book witch, sworn to defend works of fiction from all foes real and imaginary. With her magical umbrella and feline familiar, she jumps into and out of novels to fix malicious alterations and wrangle characters that go off-script. Book witches live by a...
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Great narration and unique story
- By Holley on 21-04-26
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The Book Witch
- A Magical Love Letter To Books, Book Boyfriends And Storytelling
- Narrated by: Gemma Acosta
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 09-04-26
- Language: English
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Lily and the Octopus
- By: Steven Rowley
- Narrated by: Michael Urie
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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A national bestseller combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, “Lily and the Octopus is the dog book you must read this summer” (The Washington Post). Ted—a gay, single, struggling writer is stuck: unable to open himself up...
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
- By Wras on 06-09-16
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Lily and the Octopus
- Narrated by: Michael Urie
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-06-16
- Language: English
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Small Hours
- the spellbinding new novel from the author of ISAAC AND THE EGG
- By: Bobby Palmer
- Narrated by: Stephen Mangan
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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'Powerful' JOANNA GLEN 'Beautiful' KATE SAWYER 'A triumph' JENNIE GODFREY The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and the Egg. If you stood before sunrise in this wild old place, looking through the trees into the garden, here's what you'd...
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Beautifully Written
- By SammiEW on 02-09-25
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Small Hours
- the spellbinding new novel from the author of ISAAC AND THE EGG
- Narrated by: Stephen Mangan
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-03-24
- Language: English
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Tales from the Cafe
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Book 2
- By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot - translator
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall161
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The second book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s heartwarming Tales from the Cafe, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would...
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- By Kathy on 31-07-24
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Tales from the Cafe
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Book 2
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Book 2
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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