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The Lost Temple of Java
- The Mysteries of Borobudur, the World's Largest Buddhist Temple
- By: Phil Grabsky
- Narrated by: Janet Lawrence
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3 out of 5 stars 2
Borobudur in Central Java has been described as the eighth wonder of the world. It is the world's largest Buddhist temple, built out of 1.6 million blocks of worked volcanic stone and containing three miles of relief carvings and 504 statues of Buddha. Yet for 1,000 years it lay deserted in the jungle until it was rediscovered by none other than the famous Englishman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fascinating account
- By Anonymous User on 15-12-2019
- The Lost Temple of Java
- The Mysteries of Borobudur, the World's Largest Buddhist Temple
- By: Phil Grabsky
- Narrated by: Janet Lawrence
A fascinating account
Reviewed: 15-12-2019
Easy to listrn to and an important study. Well worth the effort for anyone interested in knowledge about great structures in history.
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The Goodbye Party
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: Louis Nowra
- Narrated by: Ben Oxenbould, Steve Bisley, Aaron Pedersen, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4 out of 5 stars 79
The case was barely open before it was deemed an accident. But O’Malley knew it was murder. He just couldn’t prove it. Thirty-five years later, O’Malley is found dead in his flat in what looks like a drug overdose. But his son James knows something’s amiss. His dad was close to solving that case after all these years. And someone else knew it. To track down his father’s killer, James must find the men and women who were there on the fateful night when that young couple died.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audible should reopen the Bogle-Chandler case!
- By Anonymous User on 09-10-2019
- The Goodbye Party
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: Louis Nowra
- Narrated by: Ben Oxenbould, Steve Bisley, Aaron Pedersen, Jacinta Stapleton, full cast
Great playwright storyteller
Reviewed: 21-10-2019
I loved it. Consistenly engaging through- characters who built a great drama and thriller, leaving me in suspense until the end unlike others I have ever read before.
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Second Wind
- By: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Perry Stuart is a TV meteorologist who routinely works before the cameras. His life calm and ordered, his face familiar to every British household, Stuart's profound weather knowledge and accuracy have given him high status among forecasters, but no physical baptism by storm. Not, that is, until a fellow forecaster offers him a Caribbean hurricane-chasing ride in a small aeroplane.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A good yarn.
- By Anonymous User on 15-09-2019
- Second Wind
- By: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
A good yarn.
Reviewed: 15-09-2019
Dick Francis was a master of the genre.
I enjoy the adventure and human insight revealled.
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Last Night
- Stories
- By: James Salter
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang, Kathe Mazur, Edoardo Ballerini, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
From a writer whose every book is a literary event, a superbly accomplished work of fiction. Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion–by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. In ten powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most intimate moments. A book dealer faces the truth about his life–as it is and never will be again–when he is visited unexpectedly by his brash former girlfriend.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Out of the box
- By Anonymous User on 05-07-2019
- Last Night
- Stories
- By: James Salter
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang, Kathe Mazur, Edoardo Ballerini, Gabra Zackman, LJ Ganser, Joe Barrett, David Ledoux
Out of the box
Reviewed: 05-07-2019
So glad I found this book and author. I enjoyed the descriptions of interesting characters who found themselves in dynamic scenarios.
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Greenlight
- Audible's Thriller of 2018
- By: Benjamin Stevenson
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas, David Tredinnick, Jennifer Vuletic, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 742
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 701
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Story4 out of 5 stars 700
Four years ago Eliza Dacey was brutally murdered. Within hours, her killer was caught. Wasn’t he? So reads the opening titles of Jack Quick’s new true-crime documentary. A skilled producer, Jack knows that the bigger the conspiracy, the higher the ratings. Curtis Wade, convicted of Eliza’s murder on circumstantial evidence and victim of a biased police force, is the perfect subject. Millions of viewers agree. Just before the finale, Jack uncovers a minor detail that may prove Curtis guilty after all. Convinced it will ruin his show, Jack disposes of the evidence and delivers the finale unedited: proposing that Curtis is innocent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Aussie Thriller
- By Thomas on 07-09-2018
- Greenlight
- Audible's Thriller of 2018
- By: Benjamin Stevenson
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas, David Tredinnick, Jennifer Vuletic, Glenn van Oosterom, Paul English, Mariele Runacre-Temple
A failed thriller with no tension first half.
Reviewed: 22-06-2019
The reading lacked engaging characters and it is in such a protected, long winded, overexplained narrative
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Hanif Kureishi
- Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
- By: Holly Newson
- Narrated by: Hanif Kureishi
- Length: 14 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
This critically acclaimed British writer of Pakistani descent is the author of some of the most recognised postcolonial literature in the world, including The Buddha of Suburbia, which won the Whitbread Award for best first novel, and to screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette. Hanif Kureishi talks to us about his feelings on writing and teaching it, his love of long-form TV series and what it was like to start writing at a time in which art had to be shocking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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good work
- By Anonymous User on 19-10-2018
- Hanif Kureishi
- Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
- By: Holly Newson
- Narrated by: Hanif Kureishi
good work
Reviewed: 19-10-2018
Enjoy the insightful interview with someone who is truly creative Llooking forward to listening to one of his novels cheers.
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Flying Finish
- By: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7
Henry Grey doesn't particularly care for having been born the heir to an earldom. He is a reserved young man whose greatest problem is his mother's matchmaking plots and whose greatest joy is to ride as an amateur steeplechase jockey. But on a sudden impulse, he throws in his respectable desk job to join a firm that transports racehorses all over the world. Yardman Transport proves to be Henry's passport to many things, not the least the girl he loves, and a tidy little racket that brings him face to face with death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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well done
- By Anonymous User on 18-10-2018
- Flying Finish
- By: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
well done
Reviewed: 18-10-2018
Another successful novel. I enjoyed this one just as much as I have a whole range of Dick Francis' writings.
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Front Runner
- By: Felix Francis
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Things are hotting up in this latest thriller from best-selling author Felix Francis, in his fifth solo novel Front Runner. Jefferson Hinkley is back. In his role as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff is approached by the multi-time champion jockey, Dave Swinton, to discuss the delicate matter of losing races on purpose. Little does Jeff realise that the call would result in an attempt on his life, locked in a sauna with the temperature well above boiling point.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a good read
- By Anonymous User on 17-10-2018
- Front Runner
- By: Felix Francis
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
a good read
Reviewed: 17-10-2018
just enough excitement to keep me interested enjoyed the whole lot. will enjoy another yes.
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The Bell Jar
- By: Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 198
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- By Chelsea on 27-01-2019
- The Bell Jar
- By: Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
brilliant
Reviewed: 14-10-2018
so much said in such a short space. a towering talent. lucky I am to have come upon this incredible text.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Clive Merrison, full cast, Michael Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon, based on Arthur Conan Doyle's original short stories. The 12 dramatisations include 'A Scandal in Bohemia'; 'The Red-Headed League'; 'A Case of Identity'; 'The Boscombe Valley Mystery'; 'The Five Orange Pips'; 'The Man with the Twisted Lip'; and 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle'.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent reading of an excellent novel
- By Anonymous User on 01-10-2019
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Clive Merrison, full cast, Michael Williams
Masterful text and wonderful acting.
Reviewed: 15-08-2018
All actors of high calibre and execution of great text well done.Tthis makes for great entertainment and suspense.