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Winging It
- By: Anna Jefferson
- Narrated by: Helen Keeley
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance16
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Story17
Emily Jones is a new mum: she's bought the swank buggy, planned her labour soundtrack, read the books. Then her little girl actually arrives and Emily realises: she has all the gear, no idea - and only 12 months of maternity leave to figure it out. Lonely but not alone, it's the women Emily befriends in this first year who really see her through to the other side.
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bloody excellent
- By Ms Emma L Knight on 24-05-19
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Winging It
- Narrated by: Helen Keeley
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 16-05-19
- Language: English
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Rain
- By: Barney Campbell
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance44
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Story44
ONE OF THE EVENING STANDARD'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Barney Campbell's Rain is a searingly powerful début that reads like a British Matterhorn ******** Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Rain by Barney Campbell, read by Mark Meadows. 'Corporal Thomas (my acting...
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Pretty real
- By Charlie Suku on 02-10-19
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Rain
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 30-07-15
- Language: English
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Snowdrops
- By: A. D. Miller
- Narrated by: Kevin Howarth
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall207
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Performance78
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Story77
A riveting psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one Moscow winter, as a thirty-something Englishman’s moral compass is spun by the seductive opportunities revealed to him by a new Russia: a land of hedonism and desperation, corruption and kindness, magical dachas and debauched nightclubs: a place where secrets - and corpses - come to light only when the deep snows start to thaw...
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Disappointing and a bit dreary
- By LilyRose on 08-11-11
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Snowdrops
- Narrated by: Kevin Howarth
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 14-03-11
- Language: English
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Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill
- (Middle School 4)
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Story15
Rafe Khatchadorian, the hero of the bestselling Middle School series, is ready for a fun summer at camp – until he finds out it’s a summer school camp! Luckily, Rafe easily makes friends with his troublemaking cabin mates and bunkmate, a boy nicknamed Booger Eater, who puts up with endless...
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Fabulous one of my favourites
- By Roz on 11-10-21
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Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill
- (Middle School 4)
- Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy
- Series: Middle School, Book 4
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 20-06-13
- Language: English
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The Boy That Never Was
- Soon to be a major TV series starring Colin Morgan and Simon Callow
- By: Karen Perry
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland, Gerry O'Brien, Niamh Daly, and others
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall114
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Performance104
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Story104
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Boy That Never Was by Karen Perry. Read by Gerry O'Brien, Niamh Daly, Christopher Ragland and Roy McMillan. You were loved and lost - then you came back . . . Five years ago, three-year-old Dillon disappeared. For his father...
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Beautifully narrated.
- By The Book Girl on 07-08-14
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The Boy That Never Was
- Soon to be a major TV series starring Colin Morgan and Simon Callow
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland, Gerry O'Brien, Niamh Daly, Roy McMillan
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 27-03-14
- Language: English
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Blast From the Past
- By: Ben Elton
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall111
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Performance90
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Story91
It’s 2:15 a.m., and you’re in bed alone and you’re woken by the phone.Your eyes are wide and your body tense before it has completed so much as a single ring. And as you wake, in the tiny moment between sleep and consciousness, you know already that something is wrong.Only someone bad would call at such an hour. Or someone good, but with bad news, which would probably be worse.You lie there in the darkness and wait for the answer machine to kick in.
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Notable narration
- By Rob Claydon on 28-03-11
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Blast From the Past
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 25-02-11
- Language: English
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The Cleverness of Ladies
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance49
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Story49
Glorious short stories from international bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, in a collection written especially for World Book Day. There are times when ladies must use all their wisdom and good sense to face life's problems and mysteries. Mma Ramotswe, owner of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, keeps her wits about her as she looks into why the country's star goalkeeper isn't saving goals.
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A mix of beautiful short stories
- By Silva4 on 16-07-19
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The Cleverness of Ladies
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Series: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 12.6
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 01-04-12
- Language: English
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A Bend in the River
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall98
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Performance73
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Story73
In this incandescent novel, V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man, an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
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A flowing history from the heart of Africa
- By Nigel on 03-05-06
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A Bend in the River
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-09-04
- 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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Mister Teacher
- By: Jack Sheffield
- Narrated by: Jack Sheffield
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance55
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Story55
It's 1978, and Jack Sheffield begins his second year as headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. There are three letters on his desk - one makes him smile, one makes him sad and one is destined to change his life forever. This is from nine-year-old Sebastian, suffering...
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Heart warming!
- By Kindle Customer on 30-11-18
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Mister Teacher
- Narrated by: Jack Sheffield
- Series: Teacher, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 28-02-13
- Language: English
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A Boy Made of Blocks
- By: Keith Stuart
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall281
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Performance256
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Story257
A beautiful, funny and surprising story of autism, family and love, perfect for fans of The Rosie Project, David Nicholls' Us and Nick Hornby's About a Boy. Life is built on the little things.... Eight year-old Sam has always been different - beautiful, surprising and autistic. For all he loves his family, dad Alex has always struggled to connect with Sam, and the strain has pushed Alex's marriage with Jody to the edge.
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Building bricks to cross the dividing line
- By Rachel Redford on 15-09-16
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A Boy Made of Blocks
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-09-16
- Language: English
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The Mission House
- By: Carys Davies
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance39
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Story39
From the prize-winning author of West, a collision between old and new, east and west, in a former British hill station in contemporary South India. Fleeing the dark undercurrents of contemporary life in Britain, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in Ooty, a hill station in South India. There he finds solace in life's simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the small town with his driver, Jamshed, and staying in a mission house beside the local presbytery where the Padre and his adoptive daughter, Priscilla, have taken Hilary under their wing.
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The Mission House
- By alipally on 24-12-21
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The Mission House
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-09-20
- Language: English
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Is That You, Beth Cherry?
- Curl up with a warm, funny, feel-good story from Sunday Times besteller Lucy Dillon
- By: Lucy Dillon
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Story15
'A wonderfully warm, cosy, and inspiring read.' Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I absolutely LOVED it!' Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Lucy Dillon is my go-to author when I need a pick-me-up - this new book is more of exactly everything I have come to love about her writing.' Reader review...
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Really enjoyable
- By Janey H on 20-11-25
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Is That You, Beth Cherry?
- Curl up with a warm, funny, feel-good story from Sunday Times besteller Lucy Dillon
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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Village School
- Fairacre Series, Book 1
- By: Miss Miss Read
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 5 hrs
- Abridged
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Overall38
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Performance30
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Story30
Fairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school, and at the heart of the school, its head mistress, Miss Read. Through her discerning eye, we meet the villagers of Fairacre and see their trials and tribulations, from the irascible school cleaner Mrs. Pringle, to the young school children, with their scraped knees, hopeful faces, and inevitable mischief.
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happy reminder of my childhood
- By margaret on 15-03-22
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Village School
- Fairacre Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Series: Fairacre, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 15-08-06
- Language: English
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Give Me Everything You've Got
- 'Read the book of the summer' - Harpers Bazaar
- By: Imogen Crimp
- Narrated by: Mei Mei MacLeod
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
Bloomsbury presents Give Me Everything You've Got by Imogen Crimp, read by Mei Mei Macleod ‘Rebecca meets Brideshead Revisited meets Saltburn’ STYLIST ‘A subtle, claustrophobic, seduction of a novel’ CLAIRE FULLER ‘Evocative, gripping and, at times, verging on horror’ IRISH TIMES...
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Utterly engrossing and beautifully written
- By Pollybic on 11-06-26
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Give Me Everything You've Got
- 'Read the book of the summer' - Harpers Bazaar
- Narrated by: Mei Mei MacLeod
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 07-05-26
- Language: English
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Falling Slowly
- By: Anita Brookner
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance13
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Story13
Beatrice considers herself to be delicate and sensitive, idle and confused. Forced into early retirement, she has an unashamed and romantic desire to be rescued by the ideal man. But Beatrice's only family is her orderly sister, Miriam.
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All Souls
- By Welsh Mafia on 02-11-14
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Falling Slowly
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 12-05-10
- Language: English
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The Dreamers
- By: Karen Thompson Walker
- Narrated by: Erin Hunter
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance33
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Story33
‘Riveting, profoundly moving’ Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven ‘Beautiful and devastating’ Red ‘Thought-provoking and profound’ Cosmopolitan Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months… She sleeps through sunrise. She sleeps through...
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Beautifully written
- By M.M on 27-08-25
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The Dreamers
- Narrated by: Erin Hunter
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-02-19
- Language: English
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Umbrella
- By: Will Self
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance48
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Story48
Shortlisted for the 2012 Booker prize: Could modernity be an illness? Umbrella follows the story of Audrey Death, who fell victim to the encephalitis lethargica, sleeping sickness epidemic at the end of the First World War and has been in a coma ever since. Arriving at the asylum she still...
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Just Perfect
- By woodwild on 04-12-12
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Umbrella
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 11-10-12
- Language: English
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Grantchester Grind
- By: Tom Sharpe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall207
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Performance181
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Story181
The instinct of the true Porterhouse man faced with a crisis is to reach for the bottle and then to fall back on the subtle tactical skills honed at Cambridge down the centuries: blackmail and kidnap. But will these be enough? Menaced on all sides - by the collapse of the Chapel, by the tentacles of organised crime, and by the hovering threat of the abominable Dog’s Nose Man - will Porterhouse be forced to unleash the most fearsome weapon in its armoury - the college food?
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Disjointed, unfunny, bulked out by expletives
- By twigs way on 22-02-12
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Grantchester Grind
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Series: Porterhouse Blue, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 31-01-12
- Language: English
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After the Fire, A Still Small Voice
- By: Evie Wyld
- Narrated by: David Tredinnick
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance27
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Story26
Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of your own. Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family's beach shack. As he struggles to make friends with his...
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After The Book a warm glow
- By holly bird on 03-05-14
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After the Fire, A Still Small Voice
- Narrated by: David Tredinnick
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-12-12
- Language: English
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