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Italian Shoes
- By: Henning Mankell
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall120
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Performance79
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Story79
Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him.
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An exceptional book...
- By Rulf Neigenfind on 30-03-10
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Italian Shoes
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 15-12-09
- Language: English
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Alec
- A Novel
- By: William di Canzio
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance33
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Story33
"Sackville imbues this character-driven historical drama with warmth, comfort, and a sense of optimism, especially during the story's darkest moments." —AudioFile Magazine William di Canzio’s Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster’s secret novel of a happy same-sex love affair, tells the...
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Sensitive continuation of EM Forster's novel
- By Anonymous on 26-04-22
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Alec
- A Novel
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-07-21
- Language: English
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Millie
- By: Catherine Cookson
- Narrated by: Elin Mohede
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Den vackra, föräldralösa Millie får en enkel och kärleksfull uppfostran av den barska men godhjärtade lumphandlerskan Agnes "Tras-Aggie" Winkowski. Möjligheten att jobba som barnflicka på en herrgård gör att Millie kan bidra till uppehället, tills en dramatisk och skrämmande händelse förändrar allt. Catherine Cookson föddes 1906 i South Shields och dog 1998 i Newcastle-upon-Tyne. "Kate Hannigan", hennes första roman, utkom 1949.
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Millie
- Narrated by: Elin Mohede
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 18-04-19
- Language: Swedish
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Mike and Psmith
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Graham Seed
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall72
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Performance63
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Story63
It was a preference for cricket over schoolwork that united Mike and Psmith in their reluctance to attend their new school, Sedleigh. The school insists that its attendees be keen, but it is sorely unprepared for boys of such foresight and resources as Mike and Psmith who have decided to indulge in all manner of high-jinks and adventures.
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Mike and Psmith
- By julia on 05-07-13
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Mike and Psmith
- Narrated by: Graham Seed
- Series: Psmith, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 01-03-13
- Language: English
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Mystery in the Village
- Turnham Malpas 19
- By: Rebecca Shaw
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance5
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Story5
It's a time of turmoil for the village of Turnham Malpas.... Peter and Caroline Harris live a comfortable life at the rectory, but their cosy world is shaken up when Caroline's old flame, Morgan Jefferson, appears. He's intent on convincing her to pursue a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity - in America. Plus, it looks like Caroline's career isn't the only thing Morgan is interested in.
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Mystery in the Village
- Turnham Malpas 19
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Series: Tales from Turnham Malpas, Book 19
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 19-10-16
- Language: English
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The Innocents
- By: Francesca Segal
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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Story14
Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives and families have been intertwined for years; theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel's cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the family fold. As the long-awaited wedding approaches, Adam is torn between duty and temptation, security and freedom, and must make a choice that will break either one heart, or many.
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Great mispronunciations!
- By bookworm on 02-08-18
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The Innocents
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 09-03-17
- Language: English
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Ancestral Vices
- By: Tom Sharpe
- Narrated by: Griff Rhys Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall488
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Performance412
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Story407
When Lord Petrefact hires Walden Yapp, Professor of Demotic Historiography at Kloone University, to write a scurrilous family history Yapp finds plenty of material in Buscott village, where Frederick Petrefact is running the Mill and adding new vices to the family collection. If Yapp can lay his hands on the Petrefact Papers in the Buscott Museum he may be able to expose the multi-national capitalism of the Petrefacts to the whole world.
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Rollicking good yarn
- By Clive on 01-12-13
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Ancestral Vices
- Narrated by: Griff Rhys Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 16-08-11
- Language: English
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Before the Fall
- By: Noah Hawley
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall246
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Performance233
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Story231
The rich are different. But fate is blind. A private jet plunges into the sea. The only survivors are down-on-his-luck artist Scott Burroughs and JJ Bateman, the four-year-old son of a super-rich TV executive. For saving the boy, Scott is suddenly a hero. And then, as the official investigation is rapidly overtaken by a media frenzy, it seems he may also be a villain. Why was he on the plane in the first place, and why did it crash?
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Good story, narration distractingly bad
- By Anonymous on 04-12-17
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Before the Fall
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-11-17
- Language: English
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The French Guesthouse
- By: Isabelle Broom
- Narrated by: Mira Dovreni
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
On the night Fliss loses everything - her beloved hotel ravaged by fire and fiancé exposed as a cheat - she receives devastating news: her estranged mother has died. Summoned to a dilapidated guesthouse in France for the reading of the will, Fliss is stunned to discover she has been left all her mother's possessions. As Fliss begins restoring the guesthouse, she unearths long-buried secrets about her mother, their past and the true cost of her long absence.
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Wonderful
- By Anonymous on 03-03-26
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The French Guesthouse
- Narrated by: Mira Dovreni
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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Shadows on the Nile
- By: Kate Furnivall
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance25
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Story26
It's 1932 and 27-year-old Jessica is living London life to the full when her younger brother, Tim, an ancient Egyptian archaeology expert, goes missing. Teaming up with Sir Montague Chamford - who can resist neither a damsel in distress nor the chance of adventure - Jessie vows to find her beloved brother. Following the clues Tim has left in his wake, Jessie and Monty head to Egypt. In the relentless heat of the desert, romance is kindled between them, but danger also lurks in every shadow. And then Jessie starts to wonder how much Monty really knows about her brother's disappearance....
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Charming, exciting and beautifully read
- By Flick W. on 22-02-21
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Shadows on the Nile
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 20-06-13
- Language: English
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Act of Faith
- By: Erica James
- Narrated by: Eve Matheson
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall138
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Performance122
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Story121
Impetuous Ali Anderson has always been a loose cannon. While she’s still trying to come to terms with the death of her baby son and subsequent divorce from Elliot, she takes it upon herself to play God with her best friend’s incomprehensible marriage. Ali’s meddling has disastrous consequences. Finding herself cut off from those she loves, she comes to realise that a little forgiveness goes a long way...
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Another good book from Erica James.
- By Natasha on 02-11-15
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Act of Faith
- Narrated by: Eve Matheson
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 17-03-11
- Language: English
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The Storyteller
- By: Jodi Picoult
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marno, Jennifer Ikeda, Edoardo Ballerini, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall348
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Performance324
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Story324
Sage Singer has a past that makes her want to hide from the world. But when she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Josef Weber, a quiet old man and respected pillar of the community, she feels that finally, she may have found someone she can open up to. Until Josef tells her the evil secret he's kept for sixty years…
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Such a moving story
- By Anja on 12-07-13
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The Storyteller
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marno, Jennifer Ikeda, Edoardo Ballerini, Suzanne Toren, Fred Berman, Various
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 26-03-13
- Language: English
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At the Reunion Buffet
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Karlyn Stephen
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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Story10
Isabel Dalhousie - philosopher, mother and friend - is taking on the mammoth task of hosting her school reunion. In the hours before 25 former classmates descend on her home and the caterers arrive to set up a buffet, Isabel has time to reflect. She is mindful of the fact that reunions can bring up all sorts of uncomfortable feelings. Later that night, with the party in full swing, Isabel realises that the pull of the past remains as strong as ever.
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At the Reunion Buffet
- Narrated by: Karlyn Stephen
- Series: Isabel Dalhousie Series, Book 10.5
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Release date: 01-06-15
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
- An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance35
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Story36
The continuing adventures from Isabel Dalhousie, Edinburgh philosopher and curious observer of the behaviour of her fellow man.
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Wrong voice
- By Karen on 17-07-12
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The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
- An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Series: Isabel Dalhousie Series, Book 8
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-09-11
- Language: English
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The Siege
- By: Helen Dunmore
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall185
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Performance145
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Story144
Leningrad, September 1941. German tanks surround the city, imprisoning those who live there. The besieged people of Leningrad face shells, starvation, and the Russian winter. Interweaving two love affairs in two generations, The Siege draws us deep into the Levin's family struggle to stay alive during this terrible winter.
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Harrowing and deeply moving
- By Kirstine on 08-10-16
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The Siege
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Series: The Siege, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 22-07-10
- Language: English
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Q & A (filmed as Slumdog Millionaire)
- By: Vikas Swarup
- Narrated by: Christopher Simpson
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall215
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Performance130
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Story128
Adapted For The Film Slumdog Millionaire. Eighteen-year-old Ram Mohammad Thomas has been arrested after answering twelve questions correctly on a TV quiz show to win one billion rupees. The producers have accused him of cheating his way to victory. Twelve extraordinary events in street-kid Ram's life - how he was adopted as a foundling orphan by a priest; came to have three names; fooled a professional hit man; even fell in love - give him the crucial answers.
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Absolutely 100% magnificent
- By Rush on 16-08-09
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Q & A (filmed as Slumdog Millionaire)
- Narrated by: Christopher Simpson
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 23-03-09
- Language: English
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Outcast of Redwall
- By: Brian Jacques
- Narrated by: Brian Jacques, full cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance25
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Story25
Embroiled in a continuing struggle with his nemesis Sunflash the Mace, evil ferret warlord Swartt Sixclaw abandons his son. Taken in by the kindly folk of Redwall Abbey, the youngster is named Veil and raised in the hope he will become good. But Veil commits an unforgivable crime and is banished forever. So when Swartt goes on a rampage, Veil must make a choice. He can either fight for the father who orphaned him, or for those who raised him well—but ultimately turned him away.
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Reliving a classic
- By Rio Collins on 17-05-22
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Outcast of Redwall
- Narrated by: Brian Jacques, full cast
- Series: Redwall, Book 8
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 24-10-08
- Language: English
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The Movie
- By: Louise Bagshawe
- Narrated by: Tara Ward
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
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Overall30
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Performance15
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Story15
Screenwriter Megan Silver is a waitress in an L.A. burger joint, and her life is going nowhere fast. But she has an idea worth a million dollars - if only she can get someone to read her script. Supermodel Roxana Felix is the richest, bitchiest catwalk queen of them all. But it's not enough; she wants to be a movie star, and she'll let nothing get in her way. Studio president Eleanor Marshall is the most powerful woman in Hollywood, yet the romantic inside her longs for love - and a baby.
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Amazing story
- By Holly on 31-05-23
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The Jewels of Paradise
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Overall31
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Performance24
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Story25
Caterina Pellegrini is a young Venetian musicologist hired by two competing cousins to find the truthful heir to an alleged treasure concealed by a once-famous, but now almost forgotten, baroque composer. Sworn to secrecy, Caterina can solve the mystery only by searching through the papers contained in the composer’s two chests that have not been opened for centuries. As she delves into all quarters of his life, from professional to personal, she is drawn into one of the most scandalous affairs of the baroque era.
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VERY different from the Brunetti books!
- By JW Abbotts Ann on 11-05-20
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The Jewels of Paradise
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-10-12
- Language: English
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Starter for Ten
- By: David Nicholls
- Narrated by: Dave John
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall277
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Performance241
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Story243
Brian has arrived at university with a stronger desire than the acquisition of knowledge: he's going to be a star of TV's hottest quiz, University Challenge. But his progress on 'The Challenge' is somewhat stymied by his growing desire for the beguiling Alice Harbison, struggling to make her mark as an actress. And as obstacles impede their affair, Brian becomes more and more convinced that only overwhelming success on the quiz show will win her.
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a good read
- By Carol on 13-04-13
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Starter for Ten
- Narrated by: Dave John
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 09-08-12
- Language: English
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