Showing results by publisher "Sceptre" in Genre Fiction
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The Island of Longing
- By: Anne Griffin
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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One unremarkable afternoon, Rosie watched her daughter Saoirse cycle into town, expecting to hear the slam of the door when she returned a few hours later. But the slam never came. Eight years on, after an extensive investigation into her disappearance, Rosie is the only person who stubbornly believes that her child might still be alive. When Rosie receives a call from her father, asking her to return home for the summer, she is forced out of her limbo. Life on the island of Roaring Bay revives old rivalries, but it also brings new friendships and unexpected solace.
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Intense
- By Lovelovebooks on 22-05-2023
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The Island of Longing
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-05-2023
- Language: English
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The Chimes
- By: Anna Smaill
- Narrated by: Luke Kempner
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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A mind-expanding literary debut composed of memory, music and imagination. A boy stands on the roadside on his way to London, alone in the rain. No memories beyond what he can hold in his hands at any given moment. No directions, as written words have long since been forbidden. No parents - just a melody that tugs at him, a thread to follow. A song that says if he can just get to the capital, he may find some answers about what happened to them.
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Wonderful
- By Loveredshoes on 17-06-2016
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The Chimes
- Narrated by: Luke Kempner
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-09-2015
- Language: English
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Listening Still
- By: Anne Griffin
- Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school 17 years ago: to stay or leave for a new life in London with her charismatic teenage sweetheart.
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Wonderful performance, powerful heart wrenching story
- By Tora F on 08-12-2022
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Listening Still
- Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 29-04-2021
- Language: English
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Saltwater: Winner of the Portico Prize
- By: Jessica Andrews
- Narrated by: Natalie Jamieson
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls and neon lights illuminating the Thames at night. At least this is what Lucy expects, having grown up seemingly a world away in working-class Sunderland, amid legendary family stories of Irish immigrants and boarding houses, now-defunct ice rinks and an engagement ring at a fish market. Yet Lucy's transition to a new life is more overwhelming than she ever expected.
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Saltwater: Winner of the Portico Prize
- Narrated by: Natalie Jamieson
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2019
- Language: English
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Tiepolo Blue
- By: James Cahill
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Cambridge, 1994. Professor Don Lamb is a revered art historian at the height of his powers, consumed by the book he is writing about the skies of the Venetian master Tiepolo. However, his academic brilliance belies a deep inexperience of life and love. When an explosive piece of contemporary art is installed on the lawn of his college, it sets in motion Don's abrupt departure from Cambridge to take up a role at a south London museum. There he befriends Ben, a young artist who draws him into the anarchic 1990s British art scene and the nightlife of Soho.
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Tiepolo Blue
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-06-2022
- Language: English
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The Slowworm's Song
- By: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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An ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a bond with the daughter he barely knows when he receives a summons - to an inquiry into an incident during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It is the return of what Stephen hoped he had outdistanced. Above all, to testify would jeopardise the fragile relationship with his daughter. And if he loses her, he loses everything. Instead, he decides to write her an account of his life: a confession, a defence, a love letter. Also a means of buying time.
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Beautiful and heartbreaking
- By Anonymous User on 01-03-2023
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The Slowworm's Song
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 03-03-2022
- Language: English
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Ghosted
- A Love Story
- By: Jenn Ashworth
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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One ordinary morning, Laurie's husband, Mark, vanishes, leaving behind his phone and wallet. For weeks, she tells no one, carrying on her job as a cleaner at the local university, visiting her tricky, dementia-suffering father and holing up in her tower-block flat with a bottle to hand. When she finally reports Mark as missing, the police are suspicious. Why did she take so long? Wasn't she worried? It turns out there are many more mysteries in Laurie's account of events, though not just because she glosses over the facts.
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Ghosted
- A Love Story
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-06-2021
- Language: English
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Ingenious Pain
- By: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he rises through the ranks of Georgian society to become a brilliant surgeon. Yet as a human being he fails, for he can no more feel love and compassion than pain. Until, en route to St Petersburg to inoculate the Empress Catherine against smallpox, he meets his nemesis and saviour.
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Ingenious Pain
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 11-07-2019
- Language: English
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Memories of the Future
- By: Siri Hustvedt
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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A provocative, exuberant novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, which tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbour, Lucy Brite. As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, S. H. transcribes her neighbour's bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook, along with sundry other adventures, until one night when Lucy bursts into her apartment to rescue S. H. from a frightening situation.
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Memories of the Future
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 19-03-2019
- Language: English
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Milk Teeth
- By: Jessica Andrews
- Narrated by: Sarah Durham
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing that she needs to make herself smaller to claim presence in the world. Years later, as a young woman with unattainable ideals, she meets someone who calls everything into question, and is forced to confront episodes from her past. Their relationship takes her from London to Barcelona and the precipice of a new life, full of sensuality.
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Milk Teeth
- Narrated by: Sarah Durham
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-08-2022
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Living Forever
- By: Jaroslav Kalfar
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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When Adela discovers she has a terminal illness, her thoughts turn to Tereza, the American-raised daughter she gave up at birth. Leaving behind her moody, grown son, Roman in their native Czech village, she flies to the United States to find the long-lost daughter who never knew her. In New York City, Tereza is working as the star researcher for two suspicious biotech moguls hellbent on developing a 'god pill' to extend human life indefinitely. But before Tereza can find a cure for Adela, her mother dies mysteriously.
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A Brief History of Living Forever
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 28-03-2023
- Language: English
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Now Is the Time
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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At the end of May 1381, the 14-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: the plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian poll tax was being widely evaded. Yet Richard, bolstered by his powerful, admired mother, felt secure in his God-given right to reign.
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Now Is the Time
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2015
- Language: English
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The Bewitching
- By: Jill Dawson
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma, Jilly Bond
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Alice Samuel might be old and sharp-tongued, but she's no fool. Visiting her new neighbours in her Fenland village, she suspects Squire Throckmorton's household is not as God-fearing as it seems and finds the children troubled. What she cannot foresee is that all five daughters will succumb in turn to a terrifying affliction and accuse her of witchcraft—who else to blame than an ugly, black-capped woman with mysterious healing skills?
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The Bewitching
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma, Jilly Bond
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 07-07-2022
- Language: English
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American Fever
- By: Dur E Aziz Amna
- Narrated by: Monica Sagar
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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On a year-long exchange programme in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama. An unforgettably witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. The experience is memorable for reasons both good and bad; a first kiss, new friends, racism, Islamophobia, homesickness. Along the way Hira starts to feel increasingly unwell until she begins coughing up blood, and receives a diagnosis of tuberculosis, pushing her into quarantine and turning her newly established world upside down.
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American Fever
- Narrated by: Monica Sagar
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 18-08-2022
- Language: English
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Remember, Mr Sharma
- By: A. P. Firdaus
- Narrated by: Zoha Rahman
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Delhi, 1997: It is India's fiftieth year of independence, the year of Hindu nationalists and atomic bombs. But twelve-year-old Adi has a bigger problem: his Ma has gone missing - again. Left with an ailing grandmother, a raging father and no answers, he finds an unlikely ally: a talking vulture who reveals itself to be a bureaucrat from the 'Department of Historical Adjustment'.
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Remember, Mr Sharma
- Narrated by: Zoha Rahman
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-07-2023
- Language: English
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Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
- The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2019
- By: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's forces in Spain. Gradually Lacroix recovers his health but not his peace of mind - he cannot talk about the war or face the memory of what happened in a village on the gruelling retreat to Corunna. After the command comes to return to his regiment, he sets out instead for the Hebrides, with the vague intent of reviving his musical interests and collecting local folk songs.
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Lots of interesting parts
- By Jules on 25-06-2022
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Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
- The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2019
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 23-08-2018
- Language: English
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Body Tourists
- The gripping, thought-provoking new novel from the Booker-longlisted author of The Testament of Jessie Lamb
- By: Jane Rogers
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts, Sandra Duncan, Luke Thompson, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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In this version of London, there is a small, private clinic. Behind its layers of security, procedures are taking place on poor, robust teenagers from northern estates in exchange for thousands of pounds - procedures that will bring the wealthy dead back to life in these young, supple bodies for 14 days. It's an opportunity for wrongs to be righted, for fathers to meet grandsons, for scientists to see their work completed. Old wine in new bottles. But at what cost?
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great story and narration
- By Anonymous User on 08-06-2020
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Body Tourists
- The gripping, thought-provoking new novel from the Booker-longlisted author of The Testament of Jessie Lamb
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts, Sandra Duncan, Luke Thompson, Vivienne Rochester, Heather Long, David Timson
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2019
- Language: English
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How Much the Heart Can Hold
- Seven Stories on Love
- By: Carys Bray, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Bernardine Evaristo, and others
- Narrated by: Grainne Gillis, Jane Collingwood, Jeff Harding, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from philautia (self-love) to agape (love for humanity) and from storge (a natural affection for family) to mania (a frenzied, obsessive love).
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How Much the Heart Can Hold
- Seven Stories on Love
- Narrated by: Grainne Gillis, Jane Collingwood, Jeff Harding, Jilly Bond, Luke Thompson, Raj Ghatak, Sarah Barron
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2016
- Language: English
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Love Without End
- A Story of Heloise and Abelard
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Mark Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Paris in 1117. Heloise, a brilliant young scholar, is astonished when the famous radical philosopher Peter Abelard consents to be her tutor. But what starts out as a meeting of minds turns into a passionate, dangerous love affair, which incurs terrible retribution. Nine centuries later, Arthur is in Paris to recreate the extraordinary story of Heloise and Abelard in a novel. To his surprise, his daughter visits and agrees to help, challenging his portraits of a couple who seem often inscrutable, sometimes breathtakingly modern.
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Love Without End
- A Story of Heloise and Abelard
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Mark Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-03-2019
- Language: English
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Oxygen
- By: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: James Meunier
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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In the summer of 1997, four people reach a turning point: Alice Valentine, who lies gravely ill in her West Country home; her two sons, one still searching for a sense of direction, the other fighting to keep his acting career and marriage afloat; and László Lázár, who leads a comfortable life in Paris yet is plagued by his memories of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. For each, the time has come to assess what matters in life, and all will be forced to take part in an act of liberation - though not necessarily the one foreseen.
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Oxygen
- Narrated by: James Meunier
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2024
- Language: English
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