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Ovid’s Modern Metamorphoses
- 10 Full-Cast Contemporary BBC Radio Dramatisations including Orpheus, Euridice, Phaethon, Echo & Narcissus
- Written by: Ovid, Sebastian Baczkiewicz, Hattie Naylor,
- Narrated by: Toby Jones, Robert Glenister, Deborah Findlay,
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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Ten contemporary reimaginings of Ovid’s iconic tales, with star-studded casts including Toby Jones, Shaun Dooley and Robert Glenister The Roman love poet Ovid has influenced writers past and present, with his witty, sexy tales inspiring authors from Shakespeare to Ezra Pound. Included here are...
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Ovid’s Modern Metamorphoses
- 10 Full-Cast Contemporary BBC Radio Dramatisations including Orpheus, Euridice, Phaethon, Echo & Narcissus
- Narrated by: Toby Jones, Robert Glenister, Deborah Findlay, Rosie Cavaliero, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Burn Gorman, Shaun Dooley, Full Cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 11-06-26
- Language: English
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Atonement
- Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies.
- Written by: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Harriet Walter
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. This new audio edition of Ian McEwan’s beloved modern classic is narrated by Olivier Award winner and Emmy nominee Harriet Walter, who starred as Emily Tallis in the Academy Award-winning film adaptation of Atonement. Her recent credits range from The Crown to...
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Deeply moving
- By Shreker on 23-05-26
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Atonement
- Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies.
- Narrated by: Harriet Walter
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys
- American Literature
- Written by: Francis E. Skipp Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Stuart Langton
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In American Literature, all main periods are covered, from colonial times to the present movement toward cultural diversity. Also covered are key themes and personalities, with emphasis on major figures, including Ben Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Alice Walker, and many more.
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Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys
- American Literature
- Narrated by: Stuart Langton
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release Date: 11-09-06
- Language: English
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The Door
- A hauntingly beautiful literary classic on female friendship from twentieth-century Hungary
- Written by: Magda Szabó, Len Rix - translator
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Another undisclosed facet of her million secrets glittered before us... Emerence is a domestic servant – strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda, a young Hungarian writer, takes her on to help around the house...
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The Door
- A hauntingly beautiful literary classic on female friendship from twentieth-century Hungary
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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Disgrace
- A BBC Radio 4 Good Read
- Written by: J.M. Coetzee
- Narrated by: Jack Klaff
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours, he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to...
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Artfully Crafted To The Core
- By Lakshmi S on 25-02-21
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Disgrace
- A BBC Radio 4 Good Read
- Narrated by: Jack Klaff
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 12-01-15
- Language: English
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Oleanna, The Duck Variations & more
- Six Full Cast BBC Radio Drama Productions
- Written by: David Mamet
- Narrated by: Mark Bonnar, Edward Herrmann, Cecilia Appiah,
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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A collection of dramas by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Mamet A novelist, playwright, filmmaker and director, David Mamet ranks among America’s most famous living writers. He has penned more than 40 stage plays and over 20 screenplays, won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize...
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Oleanna, The Duck Variations & more
- Six Full Cast BBC Radio Drama Productions
- Narrated by: Mark Bonnar, Edward Herrmann, Cecilia Appiah, Lee Montague, Robert Bowman, Lisa Orgolini, Jane Bertish, Michael Feast, William Hootkins, Joseph Mydell, Jon Higgins, Christopher L Martin, Harry Towb, Cyril Shaps, Susannah Fellows
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 25-06-26
- Language: English
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The Consultant
- The darkly funny, satirical Korean thriller
- Written by: Seong-sun Im, An Seon Jae - translator
- Narrated by: Andrew Woo
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents The Consultant by Im Seong-sun, read by Andrew Woo. SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER FOR CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION 2024 'It's a clever book ... [Im Seong-sun] offers readers his razor-sharp observations on consumerism, capitalism and what it means to feel anonymous' M.W...
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The Consultant
- The darkly funny, satirical Korean thriller
- Narrated by: Andrew Woo
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Release Date: 23-11-23
- Language: English
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The Colonel and the Eunuch
- Written by: Mai Jia, Dylan Levi King - translator
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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Bloomsbury presents The Colonel and the Eunuch by Mai Jia, read by Daniel York Loh. The phenomenal #1 Chinese bestseller, with over 3 million copies sold. This is a searing exploration of what makes a hero: a literary masterpiece, available in the English language for the very first time. The...
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The Colonel and the Eunuch
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 09-05-24
- Language: English
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Pereira Maintains
- A Testimony
- Written by: Antonio Tabucchi, Patrick Creagh - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's dictatorship of António Salazar, a journalist is coming to terms with the rise of fascism around him and its insidious impact on his work. Consumed by the passing of his wife and the child he...
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Pereira Maintains
- A Testimony
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 02-07-21
- Language: English
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Territory of Light
- Written by: Yuko Tsushima, Geraldine Harcourt - translator
- Narrated by: Rina Takasaki
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, read by Rina Takasaki. Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator's separation from her...
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Territory of Light
- Narrated by: Rina Takasaki
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 03-01-19
- Language: English
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The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
- Written by: Colleen Oakley
- Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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“This is the hopeful book we all need right now. I loved it!”—Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lies That Bind As Seen on the TODAY SHOW A Southern Living Best Beach Read * A PopSugar Best Book of May * An Us Weekly Summer Beach Staple * A Frolic Under-the-Radar...
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The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
- Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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Happy Endings
- A Novel
- Written by: Thien-Kim Lam
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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With her debut novel, Thien-Kim Lam serves up a sexy second-chance romance about exes with unfinished business. When working together reignites their passion, will these former flames sizzle or get burned all over again? Trixie Nguyen is determined to make her sex toy business a success, proving...
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Happy Endings
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 18-05-21
- Language: English
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Hotel Milano
- Booker shortlisted author of Europa
- Written by: Tim Parks
- Narrated by: Sean Baker
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling writer of Italian Ways, Europa and The Hero's Way, a story set during the first days of lockdown in Europe, about the unexpected kindness of strangers and one man's emotional reckoning. Milan, 2020. Drawn abruptly from his reclusive life in London...
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Outstanding
- By Amazon Customer on 06-04-23
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Hotel Milano
- Booker shortlisted author of Europa
- Narrated by: Sean Baker
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 19-01-23
- Language: English
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Sugar
- The addictive Richard and Judy book club pick
- Written by: Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. Young and confident, with a swagger in her step, Sugar arrives in the small southern town of Bigelow with the hope of starting over. Soon Bigelow is alight with gossip and suspicion, and Sugar fears she can't hide from her past. Until, that is, she meets Pearl, her...
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Sugar
- The addictive Richard and Judy book club pick
- Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Series: The Sugar Lacey Series, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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The Skating Rink
- Written by: Roberto Bolaño
- Narrated by: Emilio Delgado, David Crommett, Tony Chiroldes
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Martí’s fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy – and revenge. Cushioning her fall from grace, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old masion on the outskirts of...
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The Skating Rink
- Narrated by: Emilio Delgado, David Crommett, Tony Chiroldes
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 07-10-25
- Language: English
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The Trouble with Happiness
- and Other Stories
- Written by: Tove Ditlevsen, Michael Favala Goldman - translator
- Narrated by: Stine Wintlev
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of love, marriage and family life in mid-century...
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The Trouble with Happiness
- and Other Stories
- Narrated by: Stine Wintlev
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 03-03-22
- Language: English
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The Mermaid Chair
- The No. 1 New York Times bestseller
- Written by: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Don't miss the extraordinary new novel from Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings - published on 21st April 2020, and available to buy now. Jessie Sullivan has been married half her life, and has become accustomed to her role. But when she returns to the isolated island where she grew up to...
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The Mermaid Chair
- The No. 1 New York Times bestseller
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 08-05-14
- Language: English
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First Comes Like
- A Novel
- Written by: Alisha Rai
- Narrated by: Saira Ayers, Neil Shah
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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The author of The Right Swipe and Girl Gone Viral returns with a story about finding love in all the wrong inboxes... Beauty expert and influencer Jia Ahmed has her eye on the prize: conquering the internet today, the entire makeup industry tomorrow, and finally, finally proving herself to her...
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First Comes Like
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Saira Ayers, Neil Shah
- Series: Modern Love (Rai), Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 16-02-21
- Language: English
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The Night Guest
- Written by: Hildur Knútsdóttir, Mary Robinette Kowal - translator
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
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This program is read by author and narrator Mary Robinette Kowal, winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards. Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake at night. Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She...
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The Night Guest
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
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Highway Blue
- the must-read modern-day Bonnie and Clyde love story
- Written by: Ailsa McFarlane
- Narrated by: Maria T Creasey
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. Featured in the Observer 10 BEST DEBUTS OF 2021. A hypnotic story of young love on the run. Anne Marie is adrift San Padua, living a precarious life of shift-work and shared apartments. Her husband Cal left her on their first anniversary and two years later, she can't...
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Highway Blue
- the must-read modern-day Bonnie and Clyde love story
- Narrated by: Maria T Creasey
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 06-05-21
- Language: English
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