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Amanda's Wedding
- By: Jenny Colgan
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance55
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Story56
Amanda's old school friends can't believe it when the social-climbing queen of preen, Satan's very own PR girl, pulls off the ultimate publicity stunt in getting herself engaged to a Scottish laird. Who cares that Fraser McConnald has worn the same pair of Converse trainers for the last three years and that his castle is a pile of rubble with one calor gas heater - she'll be titled!
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I couldn't believe this was Janny Colgan
- By NellMcMH on 27-10-20
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Amanda's Wedding
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 24-09-15
- 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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Tigerman
- By: Nick Harkaway
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall114
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Performance103
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Story103
Lester Ferris needs a rest. He's spent his life being shot at, and Afghanistan was the last stop on his road to exhaustion. Mancreu is the ideal place for Lester to relax. A former British colony, soon to be destroyed because of its very special version of toxic pollution. But Lester Ferris makes a friend: a street kid with a comicbook fixation who will need a home - who might, Lester hopes, become an adopted son. But in a place like Mancreu, just what sort of hero will the boy need?
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"Awesome" and "full of win!"
- By Rich on 15-01-21
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Tigerman
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 22-05-14
- Language: English
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The Second Husband
- By: Louise Candlish
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance43
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Story43
When her ten-year marriage to Alistair ends with his infidelity, Kate Easton vows she will not make the same mistake twice. She will never put herself - or her two children - through a relationship again. Then Alistair announces that his new wife is pregnant and he intends to cut his financial support to Kate. To keep her home she must divide it up and make way for a lodger. Enter Davis Calder, a glamorous and charismatic tutor with a failed marriage of his own behind him.
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Predictable.
- By DubaiReader on 11-05-14
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The Second Husband
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 01-04-09
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Michael K
- By: J.M. Coetzee
- Narrated by: Jack Klaff
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance42
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Story43
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and...
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A fine book, engagingly read.
- By SG4 on 13-09-17
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Life and Times of Michael K
- Narrated by: Jack Klaff
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 12-01-15
- Language: English
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The Single Girl’s To-Do List
- By: Lindsey Kelk
- Narrated by: Cassandra Harwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall150
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Performance125
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Story124
A hilarious and romantic standalone novel from the bestselling author of the I Heart series, Rachel Summers loves a to-do list: Boyfriend – Flat - Great job. NOT on the list: Being dumped - Best friends Emelie and Matthew ride to her rescue with an entirely new kind of list – The Single Girl’s To-Do List.
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Love Love Loved This Book
- By Claire Bullimore on 11-09-14
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The Single Girl’s To-Do List
- Narrated by: Cassandra Harwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 09-06-11
- Language: English
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The Black Dress
- By: Deborah Moggach
- Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall105
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Performance91
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Story92
Pru's husband has walked out, leaving her alone to contemplate her future. She's missing not so much him, but the life they once had - picnicking on the beach with small children, laughing together, nestling up like spoons in the cutlery drawer as they sleep. Now there's just a dip on one side of the bed and no one to fill it. In a daze, Pru goes off to a friend's funeral. Usual old hymns, words of praise and a eulogy but...it doesn't sound like the friend Pru knew. And it isn't. She's gone to the wrong service.
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How true are truths?
- By Rachel Redford on 02-08-21
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The Black Dress
- Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 22-07-21
- Language: English
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Katryn (Afrikaans Edition)
- Vrou van die Richtersveld [Wife of the Richtersveld]
- By: Jan Huisamen
- Narrated by: Johan Nel
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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Story11
Hierdie aangrypende roman oor ’n ongeletterde Nama-vrou van die Richtersveld speel af in die 1950’s. Katryn Jonis word van moord aangekla, maar sy kom agter die pro deo advokaat glo nie in haar onskuld nie en besluit dan om haar eie verdediging in die hof te behartig. Die vindingryke en berekende wyse waarop die reguit en passievolle Katryn die waarheid uit die staat se getuies in die hof trek, boei die leser deurgaans. Daar is baie vrae: Wie het dan die moord gepleeg, en hoekom?
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Searingly honest
- By Wilhelm Snyman on 02-09-20
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Katryn (Afrikaans Edition)
- Vrou van die Richtersveld [Wife of the Richtersveld]
- Narrated by: Johan Nel
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 08-08-19
- Language: afrikaans
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Human Croquet
- By: Kate Atkinson
- Narrated by: Susan Jameson
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall245
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Performance222
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Story224
Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green.And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees.The...
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Brilliant
- By DartmoorDiva on 30-07-15
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Human Croquet
- Narrated by: Susan Jameson
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 09-02-15
- Language: English
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コンビニ人間
- By: 村田 沙耶香
- Narrated by: 大久保 佳代子
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
第155回(2016年)芥川龍之介賞受賞作
36歳未婚女性、古倉恵子。
大学卒業後も就職せず、コンビニのバイトは18年目。
これまで彼氏なし。
オープン当初からスマイルマート日色駅前店で働き続け、
変わりゆくメンバーを見送りながら、店長は8人目だ。
日々食べるのはコンビニ食、夢の中でもコンビニのレジを打ち、
清潔なコンビニの風景と「いらっしゃいませ!」の掛け声が、
毎日の安らかな眠りをもたらしてくれる。
仕事も家庭もある同窓生たちからどんなに不思議がられても、
完璧なマニュアルの存在するコンビニこそが、
私を世界の正常な「部品」にしてくれる――。
ある日、婚活目的の新入り男性、白羽がやってきて、
そんなコンビニ的生き方は
「恥ずかしくないのか」とつきつけられるが……。
現代の実存を問い、
正常と異常の境目がゆらぐ衝撃のリアリズム小説。-
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Beware sound issues
- By nyami on 17-06-23
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Juliet, Naked
- By: Nick Hornby
- Narrated by: Ben Miles, Bill Irwin, Jennifer Wiltsie
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall277
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Performance154
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Story154
Brought to you by Penguin. Annie's put fifteen years into safe, slightly obsessive Duncan, and now she's like her money back, please. It's time to move on. But she lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to a question nobody asked. Is she really going to find real, proper...
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Good fun but beware the narration
- By Baz Borozitch on 05-05-12
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Juliet, Naked
- Narrated by: Ben Miles, Bill Irwin, Jennifer Wiltsie
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-09-09
- Language: English
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Unterleuten
- By: Juli Zeh
- Narrated by: Helene Grass
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance25
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Story25
Manchmal kann die Idylle auch die Hölle sein. Wie das Dorf "Unterleuten" irgendwo in Brandenburg. Wer nur einen flüchtigen Blick darauf wirft, ist bezaubert von den schrulligen Originalen, die den Ort nach der Wende prägen, von der unberührten Natur mit den seltenen Vogelarten, von den kleinen Häusern, die sich Stadtflüchtige aus Berlin gerne kaufen.
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Die Verfilmung war besser!
- By Melanie Gallie on 30-04-24
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Unterleuten
- Narrated by: Helene Grass
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 05-03-16
- Language: German
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The Bertie Project
- 44 Scotland Street, Book 11
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall180
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Performance165
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Story166
Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith. With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another installment in this popular series, now running in its ninth season in the Scotsman. Anything could happen to Bertie and the gang....
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I'd give 10* if I could!
- By Jill Besterman on 19-08-16
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The Bertie Project
- 44 Scotland Street, Book 11
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Series: 44 Scotland Street, Book 11
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 16-08-16
- Language: English
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Second Honeymoon
- By: Joanna Trollope
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance25
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Story25
Ben is, at last, leaving home. At 22, he’s the youngest of the family. His mother, Edie, is distraught. He husband, on the other hand, is rather hoping to get his wife back, after decades of family life. Ben’s brother is struggling in a relationship in which he achieves and earns less than his girlfriend. His sister is wrestling with debts and the end of a turbulent love affair. As the children’s lives become more complicated, they retreat to the simplicities of their childhood. But can you ever go home?
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Thoroughly enjoyed it
- By Yvonne W on 21-07-20
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Second Honeymoon
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 27-01-11
- Language: English
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Full House
- By: Maeve Binchy
- Narrated by: Kate Binchy
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall105
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Performance71
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Story73
Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, shouldn't they leave home? Rosie moved out when she got married, but it didn't work out, so now she is back with her parents. Helen is a teacher, and doesn't earn enough for a place of her own. Anthony writes songs, and is just waiting for the day when someone will pay him for them. Until then, all three are happy at home. It doesn't cost them anything, and surely their parents like having a full house?
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Reality Check
- By Amazon Customer on 23-12-12
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Full House
- Narrated by: Kate Binchy
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 16-02-12
- 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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A Closed Eye
- By: Anita Brookner
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance53
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Story52
Born to elegant but frivolous parents, Harriet grows up ignored and unguided, and retains a curious innocence that neither her marriage to Freddie Lytton, nor her friendship with the beautiful Tessa can dispel. Freddie is far older than she is - a companion rather than a lover - and slightly disapproving of Tessa and her irresponsible, attractive husband, Jack. Yet all four are bound together: by their backgrounds, their children, by Harriet’s unspoken feelings for Jack and by the tragedy that lies in wait for all of them.
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A subtle, unsettling and compelling book.
- By Lucy Frank on 13-12-17
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A Closed Eye
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-01-11
- Language: English
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Bilgewater
- By: Jane Gardam
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance29
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Story29
Marigold Green calls herself ‘hideous, quaint and barmy’. Other people call her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill’s daughter. Growing up in a boys’ school where her father is housemaster, she is convinced of her own plainness and peculiarity. Groomed by the wise and loving Paula, upstaged by bad, beautiful Grace and ripe for seduction by entirely the wrong sort of boy, she suffers extravagantly and comically in her pilgrimage through the turbulent, twilight world of alarming adolescence.
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Wonderful in every way
- By Suzie on 20-03-23
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Bilgewater
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-03-10
- Language: English
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The Perils of Morning Coffee
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Karlyn Stephen
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance22
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Story22
Summer in Edinburgh is a season of delicate sunshine and showers, picnics with loved ones in blossoming gardens and genteel celebrations of art and music. But Isabel Dalhousie's peaceful idyll is broken when a single meeting over coffee with fellow philosopher Dr George McLeod brings an irate phone call from his wife, Roz, who implacably accuses Isabel of conducting an affair with her husband.
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a dilemma
- By Avid reader on 21-06-21
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The Perils of Morning Coffee
- Narrated by: Karlyn Stephen
- Series: Isabel Dalhousie Series, Book 8.5
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-06-15
- Language: English
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The Memory Book
- By: Rowan Coleman
- Narrated by: Robert Blackwood, Clare Corbett, Anna Bentinck, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance83
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Story84
The name of your first-born. The face of your lover. Your age. Your address... What would happen if your memory of these began to fade? When Claire starts to write her Memory Book, she already knows that this scrapbook of mementoes will soon be all her daughters and husband have of her. But how can she hold onto the past when her future is slipping through her fingers...?
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So sad
- By Catherine on 20-08-15
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The Memory Book
- Narrated by: Robert Blackwood, Clare Corbett, Anna Bentinck, Laura Kirman, Various
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 06-03-14
- Language: English
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