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Red Side Story
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Narrated by: Chris Harper, Jasper Fforde
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance332
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Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see. This is the world inhabited by Eddie Russett (red, middle-level) and Jane Grey (monochromatic, lowest in society). Eddie and Jane must negotiate the delicate Chromatic politics of society to find out what the 'Something that Happened' actually was, how society got to be this way, and crucially, is there Somewhere Else beyond their borders?
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Everything I waited far far far to long for
- By Judge Tread on 08-04-24
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Red Side Story
- Narrated by: Chris Harper, Jasper Fforde
- Series: Shades of Grey, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-02-24
- Language: English
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Shades of Grey
- For fans of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett - the cult classic, full of colourful characters and brilliant twists
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall510
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Performance451
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Story449
Hundreds of years in the future, after the Something that Happened, the world is an alarmingly different place. Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour. Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by...
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Absolutely brilliant... But where's the rest?
- By Helen on 09-03-15
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Shades of Grey
- For fans of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett - the cult classic, full of colourful characters and brilliant twists
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Series: Shades of Grey, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 16-12-11
- Language: English
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The Eyre Affair
- Thursday Next Book 1
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Kruger
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,005
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Performance904
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Story901
There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers, but there are policemen who can travel...
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Audio problems mar an otherwise entertaining read
- By Charlie on 06-06-13
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The Eyre Affair
- Thursday Next Book 1
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Kruger
- Series: Thursday Next Novels, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 11-03-13
- Language: English
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Infinite Jest
- By: David Foster Wallace
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 56 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall182
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Performance150
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Story148
'A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything' New York Times 'Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight' James Wood, Guardian 'He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with a sleeping partner, wakes said...
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Great Book, Great Performance, but no End Notes.
- By His Three Calls to Cormac on 06-03-19
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Infinite Jest
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 56 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 24-01-19
- Language: English
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One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Kruger
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall273
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Performance232
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Story230
It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister? All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake.
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Much better
- By Celia 22 on 07-03-21
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One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Kruger
- Series: Thursday Next Novels, Book 6
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 30-07-12
- Language: English
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Endling
- LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE
- By: Maria Reva
- Narrated by: Maria Reva, Max Meyers, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance41
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* LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 * * WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2026 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE * * WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE * * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, BBC, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, GOOD...
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Quirky and beautifully written
- By Celia on 01-09-25
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Endling
- LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE
- Narrated by: Maria Reva, Max Meyers, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 19-08-25
- Language: English
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The Man Who Saw Seconds
- By: Alexander Boldizar
- Narrated by: Christian Leatherman
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Locus Award and CIBA Mark Twain grand prize, The Man Who Saw Seconds is a gripping speculative fiction thriller, blending absurdist satire and adrenaline-charged suspense, about a New York man who can see five seconds into the future—which changes his life forever; perfect for...
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absolute barnstormer
- By Andrew Cummings on 22-11-25
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The Man Who Saw Seconds
- Narrated by: Christian Leatherman
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 23-09-25
- Language: English
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Assumption
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance6
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In Assumption, Percival Everett is on top form as he once again upends our expectations about characters, plot, race, and meaning. Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman’s murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up...
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Underwhelming
- By Shelfseeker on 05-06-25
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Assumption
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 21-03-24
- Language: English
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The Sharter
- A Comedic Journey Out of Hip-Hop Hypnosis
- By: Alfonso F.R.
- Narrated by: Alfonso F.R.
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Humor is healthy. Author & narrator Alfonso F.R. provides a vital tool for snapping millions out of hip-hop hypnosis, this audiobook. You’ve heard a disgusting hip-hop song today, haven’t you? The most pervasive poison in society is difficult to avoid. This “music" isn’t to empower, educate, or motivate you. It’s to hypnotize you into becoming a hedonistic derelict. Do you think it’s natural to listen to percussion instruments with a guy talking about drugs, violence, and depravity? The tribalistic war drums tap into your instincts to condition you into a life of idiocy. It isn’t music.
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Comedic ascension
- By Anonymous on 27-03-26
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The Sharter
- A Comedic Journey Out of Hip-Hop Hypnosis
- Narrated by: Alfonso F.R.
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-05-25
- Language: English
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Dance Dance Dance
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall591
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Performance535
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Story536
Combine an offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose, and the result is the remarkable story Dance Dance Dance: high-class call girls billed to MasterCard, a psychic 13-year-old dropout has a passion for talking heads, and meet a hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. Don’t forget the one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem.
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Brilliant - a Murakami 'Masterpiece of weirdness'
- By The Viscount on 04-10-16
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Dance Dance Dance
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Series: Rat, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-07-16
- Language: English
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Plastic
- A Novel
- By: Scott Guild
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie, Will Damron
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental destruction in a surprising new mold. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN OUR CULTURE...
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Plastic
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie, Will Damron
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 13-02-24
- Language: English
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Family of Origin
- A Novel
- By: CJ Hauser
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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*BONUS: Includes the viral essay sensation "The Crane Wife"* "An innovative work of climate fiction, a nuanced and empathic family story, and, for my money, the summer's best novel thus far." --NPR.org "The most oddly enticing novel you will read this year...Keenly satirical yet unashamedly...
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Family of Origin
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 16-07-19
- Language: English
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The Liar's Dictionary
- A Novel
- By: Eley Williams
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Jon Glover
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming...
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The Liar's Dictionary
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Jon Glover
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 05-01-21
- Language: English
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Good Citizens Need Not Fear
- Stories
- By: Maria Reva
- Narrated by: Allen Lewis Rickman, Kathleen Gati, David Pittu, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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"These immersive linked stories grapple with Ukrainian history through the waning years of the USSR and birth pangs of democracy ... Reva's characters spark off the page as they confront a brutal bureaucratic past with the only tool they possess—hope."—O, The Oprah Magazine A brilliant and...
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Good Citizens Need Not Fear
- Stories
- Narrated by: Allen Lewis Rickman, Kathleen Gati, David Pittu, Yelena Shmulenson, Ilyana Kadushin
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-03-20
- Language: English
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Don Quijote de la Mancha [Don Quixote]
- By: Miguel de Cervantes
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Overall13
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Performance10
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FonoLibro, el líder en audiolibros en español, celebra los 400 años de la obra mas importante y universal de nuestra lengua Las Aventuras del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha, mas conocida por el nombre abreviado de Don Quijote.
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la cabalgata de un patriarca
- By Jean-Pierre on 24-10-25
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Don Quijote de la Mancha [Don Quixote]
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 23-03-06
- Language: Spanish
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Tales from the Motherland
- The Spectacle Trilogy - A Precursor Cycle, Book Zero
- By: Ralph Clayton
- Narrated by: Cindy Palmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Tales from the Motherland: Book Zero is a darkly comic collection of interlinked stories about power, memory, exile, and the quiet absurdities of modern life. Set across post-Soviet cities, imagined borderlands, and bureaucratic nowhere-zones, these stories follow people who live slightly out of sync with their surroundings—men and women shaped by collapse, reinvention, and systems that no longer announce themselves with force, but with procedure, habit, and polite indifference.
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Tales from the Motherland
- The Spectacle Trilogy - A Precursor Cycle, Book Zero
- Narrated by: Cindy Palmer
- Series: The Spectacle Trilogy - A Precursor Cycle, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 15-04-26
- Language: English
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Die 13 ½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär
- Zamonien 1
- By: Walter Moers
- Narrated by: Dirk Bach, Wolfgang Völz
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance28
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Ein Blaubär entführt den Hörer in eine Welt, in der Phantasie und Humor auf abenteuerliche Weise außer Kontrolle geraten sind. Dem Hörer geht es in dieser akustischen Neufassung wie der Hauptfigur: Gepackt vom Sog der Lesung Dirk Bachs geht es über sparsam, aber effektvoll eingesetzte Musik zu Zwergpiraten, Klabautergeistern und Gimpeln. Dramatische Klangbilder machen die Reise so plastisch, dass Finsterberge, der Große Wald, der Ewige Tornado, Atlantis u.v.m.
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Delightful Time-waster
- By Diane Severson on 04-10-22
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Die 13 ½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär
- Zamonien 1
- Narrated by: Dirk Bach, Wolfgang Völz
- Series: Zamonien, Book 1
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-11-13
- Language: German
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The Metamorphosis
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Patrick Shannon
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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The Metamorphosis tells the unsettling story of Gregor Samsa’s transformation into something entirely unexpected: “a monstrous insect.” This is not just a novel about physical transformation but also a deep reflection on alienation and loneliness. The listener will not only to enjoy Kafka’s incomparable style but also to confront the vital questions that only a masterpiece can provoke.
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AI slop ?
- By Anonymous on 22-12-25
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The Metamorphosis
- Narrated by: Patrick Shannon
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Release date: 15-12-25
- Language: English
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Unusual Uses For Olive Oil
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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Life is so unfair, and it sends many things to try Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg. There is the undeserved rise of his rival (and owner of a one-legged dachshund), Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer; the interminable ramblings of the librarian, Herr Huber; and the condescension of his colleagues with regard to his unmarried state. But when his friend Ophelia Prinzel takes it upon herself to match-make, and duly produces a cheerful heiress with her own Schloss, it appears that the professor's true worth is about to be recognised.
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A True Delight
- By Patricia on 08-11-11
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Unusual Uses For Olive Oil
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Series: Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, Book 4
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 06-10-11
- Language: English
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Cul-de-Sac Carnage
- Discount Dan's Backroom Bargains, Book 2
- By: James Hunter
- Narrated by: Steve Campbell
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance39
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With the shadow of the Flayed Monarch looming ever closer, Dan must prepare the store and himself for the battle to come. To stand a chance, he’ll need to expand his operations, broker a precarious trade deal with the Delvers of Howlers Hold, and transform his stash of relics into an arsenal of magical war crimes.
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Great second book to the series
- By Jon Sterling on 25-08-25
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Cul-de-Sac Carnage
- Discount Dan's Backroom Bargains, Book 2
- Narrated by: Steve Campbell
- Series: Discount Dan's Backroom Bargains, Book 2
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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