General & Contemporary

It

• UNABRIDGED (44 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Steven Weber
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To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine, was just their hometown: familiar, well ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing....

The Break

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs)
• By Marian Keyes
• Narrated By Aoife McMahon
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The story of a relationship that everyone thought was forever and which is now in danger of being for never, The Break is about getting older and staying in love when life, real life, is trying to pull you apart.

The Handmaid's Tale

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Margaret Atwood
• Narrated By Joanna David
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The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs....

Big Little Lies

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Liane Moriarty
• Narrated By Caroline Lee

Pirriwee Public is a beautiful little beachside primary school where children are taught that 'sharing is caring.' So how has the annual School Trivia Night ended in full-blown riot? Sirens are wailing. People are screaming. The principal is mortified. And one parent is dead. Was it a murder, a tragic accident or just good parents gone bad? As the parents at Pirriwee Public are about to discover, sometimes it's the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal.

The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs)
• By Paulo Coelho
• Narrated By Jeremy Irons
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Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an Alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest.

Into the Water

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Paula Hawkins
• Narrated By Imogen Church, Sophie Aldred, Daniel Weyman, and others
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The most hotly anticipated novel of the year, from the author of the best-selling novel The Girl on the Train....

The Girl on the Train

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Paula Hawkins
• Narrated By Clare Corbett, India Fisher, Louise Brealey
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Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed.

What Alice Forgot

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Liane Moriarty
• Narrated By Caroline Lee

When Alice Love surfaces from a beautiful dream to find she's been injured in a gym, she knows that something is very wrong – she hates exercise. Alice's first concern is her baby – she's pregnant with her first child, and she's desperate to see her husband, Nick, who she knows will be worried about her.But Alice isn't pregnant. And Nick isn't worried.

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Dominic Smith
• Narrated By Edoardo Ballerini
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This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the story's told. In this extraordinary audiobook, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith brilliantly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the Golden Age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated Australian art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth.

The Hypnotist's Love Story

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Liane Moriarty
• Narrated By Caroline Lee
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The Hypnotist's Love Story is about the mild craziness that lurks behind the facades we present to the world, especially when it comes to love. Ellen O'Farrell is an expert when it comes to human frailties. She's a hypnotherapist who helps her clients deal with everything from addictions to life-long phobias. So when she falls in love with a man who is being stalked by his ex-girlfriend she's more intrigued than frightened.

Truly Madly Guilty

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Liane Moriarty
• Narrated By Caroline Lee
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What if they hadn't gone? That's the question Clementine can't stop asking herself. It was just a backyard barbeque. They didn't know their hosts that well. They were friends of friends. They could so easily have said no. But she and her husband, Sam, said yes, and now they can never change what they did and didn't do that beautiful winter's day.

The Light Between Oceans: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 24 mins)
• By M L Stedman
• Narrated By Noah Taylor
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After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.

After You

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Jojo Moyes
• Narrated By Anna Acton
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of After You by the Jojo Moyes, the stunning sequel to the worldwide phenomenon Me Before You. Jojo Moyes says: "I hadn't planned to write a sequel to Me Before You. But working on the movie script and reading the sheer volume of tweets and emails every day asking what Lou did with her life meant that the characters never left me."

The Secret History

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Donna Tartt
• Narrated By Donna Tartt
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The smartest murder-mystery you will ever hearA misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their privileged lives apart, they drag Richard into the nightmare that engulfs them. And soon they enter a terrifying heart of darkness from which they may never return.

The Fifth Season: The Broken Stone, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 27 mins)
• By N. K. Jemisin
• Narrated By Robin Miles

This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet, small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose innovations have been civilisation's bedrock for a thousand years, collapses as its greatest city is destroyed by a madman's vengeance.

The Bell Jar

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Sylvia Plath
• Narrated By Maggie Gyllenhaal

Read by the critically acclaimed actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship at a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women's aspirations seriously.

Wonder

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By R J Palacio
• Narrated By Diana Steele, Nick Podehl, Kate Rudd
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Wonder is the funny, sweet and incredibly moving story of Auggie Pullman. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, this shy, bright ten-year-old has been home-schooled by his parents for his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the stares and cruelty of the outside world. Now, for the first time, Auggie is being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. The thing is, Auggie's just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face.

4 3 2 1

• UNABRIDGED (37 hrs)
• By Paul Auster
• Narrated By Paul Auster
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On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and intellectual passions contrast.

Three Wishes

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Liane Moriarty
• Narrated By Caroline Lee
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Three sisters, one birthday, one little problem... The three Kettle sisters have had a mortifying mishap. Their raucous, champagne-soaked birthday dinner has come to an abrupt end following a violent argument and an emergency dash to the hospital. So who started it this time? Was it angry, hurt Cat, still recovering from the 'night of the spaghetti'? Was it Lyn, so serenely successful, at least on the outside? Or was it quirky, dreamy Gemma, the sister who can't keep a secret except for the most important one of all?

The Spy: Jed Walker Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 47 mins)
• By James Phelan
• Narrated By Mulraney Adrian

A sinister group - code-named Zodiac - has launched devastating global attacks. Twelve targets across the world, 12 code-named missions. Operating distinct sleeper cells, they are the ultimate terrorist organisation, watching and waiting for a precise attack to activate the next group. It is a frightening and deadly efficient way to stay one step ahead. And cause the most chaos. For ex-CIA operative Jed Walker, chaos is his profession. On the outer, burned by his former agency, he is determined to clear his name.

Mimi Plus Two: The Mimi Chronicles, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs)
• By Whitney Dineen
• Narrated By Elizabeth Austin

Mimi has it all. She's marrying the love of her life, about to have his baby, and is moving into the house of her dreams. Things couldn't be better! Until her wedding, that is, when everyone toasts to her perfect life. Not one to tempt the fates, Mimi is sure her loved ones are jinxing her future happiness. Enter pregnancy drama, aristocratic in-laws, and catastrophic postpartum depression. Mimi's journey is hilarious, heart-warming, and borderline insane.

The Image of You

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Adele Parks
• Narrated By Lucy Paterson
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Anna and Zoe are twins. Identical in appearance, utterly different in personality, they share a bond so close that nothing - or no one - can rip them apart. Until Anna meets charismatic Nick. Anna is trusting, romantic and hopeful; she thinks Nick is perfect. Zoe is daring, dangerous and extreme; she thinks Nick is a liar. Zoe has seen Anna betrayed by men before. She'll stop at nothing to discover if Nick is as good as he seems. The problem is, lies may hurt. But honesty can kill.

The Girl in the Green Dress

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Cath Staincliffe
• Narrated By Julia Franklin
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How far would you go to protect your child? Can you really keep them safe? What if who they are puts them at risk? And what if they have blood on their hands?Teenager Allie Kennaway heads off for prom night, cheered on by dad Steve and her little sister, Teagan. But Allie never comes home, beaten to death in an apparent hate crime because of her transgender identity. As police investigate the brutal murder, a crime that has appalled the country, one parent is at her wits' end with her son's behaviour.

Chasing Daisy

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Paige Toon
• Narrated By Jennifer Woodward
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Daisy has been dumped, unceremoniously jilted. Not by any ordinary guy, no...Daisy has a secret in her past that she won't even tell her best friend, Holly. She's given up on men - and on her own family. But life still has to be lived and where better to recover than as far away from home as possible. Grabbing a chance to see the world, Daisy packs her bags and joins the team catering to the world's highest-paid, supercharged racing drivers on the Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit.

The Picture House by the Sea

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Holly Hepburn
• Narrated By Karen Cass
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The picture house by the sea is the Palace at Polwhipple - a lovely art deco cinema nestled in front of azure Cornish seas. But it is long past its heyday now, and its only saving grace is Ferrelli's, the family run ice-cream concession in the foyer, which is widely known as the best ice cream for miles. So when Ferdie, the owner of Ferelli's, breaks his leg, his granddaughter Gina drops everything to come and help out.

Keep You Safe

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Melissa Hill
• Narrated By Aoife McMahon, Caroline Lennon

A mother always knows best. Doesn't she? For single mum Kate O'Hara, there was no decision to make. Her daughter, Rosie, is one of a small percentage of Irish children with a disorder that prevents her from being vaccinated against measles. All Kate can do is hope that herd immunity keeps the disease at bay and her little girl safe. For Madeleine Harrington, it was a leap of faith she wasn't prepared to take. Which is why she and her husband decline measles jabs for their daughter, Clara.

The Worst Case Scenario Cookery Club

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Chrissie Manby
• Narrated By Karen Cass
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In the quaint seaside town of Newbay, a beginner's cookery course is starting. And three very different students have signed up.... Liz, determined to find love, has heard the old adage that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. John is newly widowed after 57 years of marriage, facing a lifetime of cheese on toast. Twenty-two-year-old DeeDee has been drifting from one dead-end job to another. The only thing they have in common: between them, they can barely boil an egg!

Blanche on the Lam: Blanche White Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Barbara Neely
• Narrated By Lisa Reneé Pitts
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Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. But when an employer stiffs her, and her checks bounce, she goes on the lam, hiding out as a maid for a wealthy family at their summer home. That plan goes awry when there's a murder and Blanche becomes the prime suspect. So she's forced to use her savvy, her sharp wit, and her old-girl network of domestic workers to discover the truth and save her own skin.

Switched

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 50 mins)
• By N.R. Walker
• Narrated By Joel Leslie

Israel Ingham's life has never been easy. He grew up in a house devoid of love and warmth. Nothing he ever did was good enough. The fact that Israel is gay just added to the long list of his father's disappointments. Then a letter from Eastport Children's Hospital changes everything. A discovery is made, one of gross human error. Twenty-six years ago, two baby boys were switched at birth and sent home with the wrong families.

Fool Me Once: First Wives Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Catherine Bybee
• Narrated By Emma Wilder
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Cynical divorce attorney Lori Cumberland lives by one motto: Love is grand, but divorce is a hundred grand. With one failed marriage under her own personal belt, Lori had fallen hard and early - and it isn't something she plans on repeating. She's content focusing on the temporary marriages of her rich and famous clients. When she joins some of her recent divorcées on a celebratory cruise, her only vow is fun, sun, and new friends. But Lori finds herself tempted by a jury of one.

To Be Where You Are

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Jan Karon
• Narrated By John McDonough
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Millions of Karon fans will be thrilled that it's life as usual in the wildly popular Mitford series: A beloved town character lands a front-page obituary, but who was it, exactly, who died? And what about the former mayor, born the year Lindbergh landed in Paris, who's still running for office? All this, of course, is but a feather on the wind compared to Muse editor J. C. Hogan's desperate attempts to find a cure for his marital woes. Will it be high-def TV or his pork chop marinade?

The Heart Code

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Laura Matson Hahn
• Narrated By Laura Matson Hahn

A young woman's struggle to hear and heed her heart's voice.1930's Connecticut, Czechoslovakia's Bohemia and New York City. Four years, three friends, two families and one unforgettable grandmother.

I Am Girl Power: Health and Happiness Society, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Katie Cross
• Narrated By Anna Caudle

Cardiac nurse Megan Bailey has it all. Until she doesn't. Thanks to a string of horrible relationships, an unexpected twist in her career, and mounting credit card bills, Megan escapes to Adventura Summer Camp to work as camp chef. Instead of a relaxing summer in the mountains, she faces a persnickety oven, squirrels in the kitchen, and a host of uncertain staff. With the help of her twin brothers and a quiet, blue-eyed camp ranger named Justin, Megan will have to navigate the treacherous waters of a storm she never expected: her parents possible divorce.

Kentucky Sunrise

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Fern Michaels
• Narrated By Susie Berneis
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When it comes to men, Nealy is very content with her new husband, lawyer Hatch Littletree. When it comes to horses, she is never satisfied. Nobody can measure up to her standards as a trainer, not even her daughter, Emmie, who now runs the family's famous stables, Blue Diamond Farms. But returning to Blue Diamond Farms for a family reunion sends Nealy reeling. Emmie has let the farm slide, and she has picked a small, gutsy colt to send to the Derby - a nice horse but clearly the wrong one.

The Right Time

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Danielle Steel
• Narrated By Victor Bevine

As Alexandra Winslow climbs the ladder of publishing success, she resolutely adheres to her father's caution: men only read crime thrillers written by men. She publishes under the pseudonym of brilliantly successful Alexander Green, her true identity known only to those closest to her. This creates an isolating double life, but the right time to open up always seems just out of reach and the price of the truth always too high....

Rage

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Kimberly A. Bettes
• Narrated By Rick Gregory

Brian Boozer is a good kid in a bad situation. At 13, he's already endured the pain of losing his father and the agony of living with a step-father who hates and abuses him. At school, Brian suffers even more torment, delivered by bullies who seem to enjoy making his life miserable. The only bright spot in Brian's life is Carly, the girl on whom he's had a crush for years. As his relationship with her evolves, so do the problems at home and the confrontations at school.

Until Death

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Ali Knight
• Narrated By Karen Cass
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Marriage is a prison for Kelly. Her controlling and manipulative husband, Christos, videos her in the house, has her followed and tracks her every move. She may be desperate to leave, but she's not stupid. If she runs, he'll make sure she never sees her children again. Christos has a mistress, Sylvie, keen to pander to his every whim and even keener to step into Kelly's shoes, should she ever vacate them.

Hard Candy 2: Secrets Uncovered

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Amaleka McCall, Buck 50 Productions - producer
• Narrated By Mishi LaChappelle
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When Candice "Candy" Hardaway, the daughter of deceased New York drug kingpin Eric "Easy" Hardaway, set out to get revenge on the people who killed her entire family, she positioned herself knee-deep in the game. While getting close to her father's alleged enemies, Candy uncovered some long-buried secrets that were never meant for her to find out. These secrets also destroyed the only family member she had left - her Uncle Rock.

The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien

• ABRIDGED (5 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Oscar Hijuelos
• Narrated By Cathy Moriarty

Nelson O'Brien runs the Jewel Box Movie Theater in a small Pennsylvania town where he and his wife, Mariela, raise one son and 14 daughters. Through the eyes of Margarita, the eldest daughter, the lives, loves and tragedies of the Montez O'Briens' and their complex family relationships unfold. While reflecting on the life of Emilio, her doggedly masculine brother, Margarita also ruminates on the nature of femininity, family, sex, love, and earthly happiness.

Cold Feet: The Lost Years

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Carmel Harrington
• Narrated By Thomas Judd
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An original Cold Feet novel written in collaboration with the award-winning Cold Feet team. Anyone who was watching TV in the 1990s will remember the hugely popular Cold Feet drama. We loved it for being both funny and heartbreaking. For presenting warm, honest, flawed-but-real people who felt more like our mates than characters on a screen. The show returned to our TVs last year, and after 13 years away, we walked straight back into their lives.