Tony Wood
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Bombproof
- By: Michael Robotham
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Sami Macbeth is not a master criminal. He's not even a minor one. He's not a jewel thief. He's not a safe-cracker. He's not an expert in explosives. Sami plays guitar and wants to be a rock god but keeps getting side-tracked by unforeseen circumstances. Fifty-four hours ago Sami was released from prison. Thirty-six hours ago he slept with the woman of his dreams at the Savoy. An hour ago his train blew up. Now he's carrying a rucksack through London's West End and has turned himself into the most-wanted terrorist in the country.
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Fantastic
- By Janette on 04-03-2017
- Bombproof
- By: Michael Robotham
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
Picked me up on page 1 and kept me enthralled.
Reviewed: 04-01-2021
A great story well told and well narrated. Tell it so vividly it's likke watching a film
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Good Omens
- By: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing, and everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist.
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Amazing Story!
- By Anonymous User on 20-01-2019
- Good Omens
- By: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
Great story great production
Reviewed: 06-07-2019
Read the book, watched the TV series, now listened to a terrific reading of the book.
I love the story and will be immersing myself in it all over again.
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The Rosie Result
- Don Tillman, Book 3
- By: Graeme Simsion
- Narrated by: Dan O'Grady
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back in Australia after a decade in New York, and they’re about to face their most important challenge. Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he’s socially awkward and not fitting in. Don’s spent a lifetime trying to fit in - so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs? The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don to decide how much to guide Hudson and how much to let him be himself, and raise some significant questions about his own identity.
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Engrossing, emotional and hilarious
- By Anonymous User on 12-09-2019
- The Rosie Result
- Don Tillman, Book 3
- By: Graeme Simsion
- Narrated by: Dan O'Grady
An interesting insight
Reviewed: 04-05-2019
An insight into the autism spectrum.
As well as being an engrossing novel in its own right it does highlight the trials and tribulations of those in society who are a little different.
I've loved all three of the Rosie books
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Tell Nobody
- Detective Lottie Parker, Book 5
- By: Patricia Gibney
- Narrated by: Michele Moran
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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One hot summer evening, 11-year-old Mikey Driscoll is on the way home from playing with friends. Two days later, his body is discovered on a bed of wildflowers by some local teenagers. The case is assigned to Detective Lottie Parker, and this time it’s personal. The victim was a close friend of her son, Sean, from the run-down Munbally estate on the other side of town. Sean tells his mother Mikey was behaving normally before he died, but Lottie can’t help but feel that her son is keeping something from her.
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Love Patricia Gigney
- By Bob McAullay on 26-04-2019
- Tell Nobody
- Detective Lottie Parker, Book 5
- By: Patricia Gibney
- Narrated by: Michele Moran
The best one yet.
Reviewed: 15-03-2019
I enjoyed all of this series so far but each is better than the last so I eagerly await book 6.
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No Safe Place
- Detective Lottie Parker, Book 4
- By: Patricia Gibney
- Narrated by: Michele Moran
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
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As funeral mourners stand in silence at Ragmullin cemetery, a deafening cry cuts through the air. Lying crumpled at the bottom of an open grave is the bloodied body of a young woman, and Detective Lottie Parker is called in to investigate. Knowing the body can’t have been there long, Lottie wonders if it could be Elizabeth Bryne, a young woman who vanished without trace just days earlier. And with a new boss who seems to have it in for her, Lottie is under pressure to solve both cases quickly.
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a perfect 4th book
- By jessica driver on 05-07-2018
- No Safe Place
- Detective Lottie Parker, Book 4
- By: Patricia Gibney
- Narrated by: Michele Moran
Brilliant!
Reviewed: 26-11-2018
Can't wait to get into the next book. Another gripping book in the series with Lottie Parker.
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Going Postal
- Discworld, Book 33
- By: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Stephen Briggs
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into...a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork.
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Going Postal
- By Rowancat11 on 22-09-2017
- Going Postal
- Discworld, Book 33
- By: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Stephen Briggs
One of the best
Reviewed: 21-11-2018
Sir Terry had really hit his straps when he wrote this Discworld srory.
The characters have deprh, the plot has twists and the phrases and sentences have those little Pratchett twists that evoke his trademark humour.
Coupled with the masterful Stephen Briggs' storytelling I found the whole production spellbinding.
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Batavia
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 17 hrs
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The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland. The magnificent ship is already boiling over with a mutinous plot that is just about to break into the open when, just off the coast of Western Australia, it strikes an unseen reef in the middle of the night. While Commandeur Francisco Pelsaert decides to take the longboat across 2,000 miles of open sea for help, his second-in-command Jeronimus Cornelisz takes over....
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Amazing, completely amazing
- By A. V. James on 27-02-2017
- Batavia
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
A fascinating story of West Australian history
Reviewed: 21-10-2018
Took a little bit of getting into, but once the voyage started I was hooked.
The story is meaningful as I live in Western Australia and have visited the Batavia exhibit at Fremantle museum a few times.
All up it is a gripping story, and as well as being history it gives an insight into how one person can develop powerful control over a large group.
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The Monster Collection
- By: Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Dan Stevens, Greg Wise, and others
- Length: 30 hrs and 25 mins
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Audible presents a special edition of three Gothic masterpieces: a brand-new Audible Exclusive recording of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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Get to know your monsters
- By Anonymous User on 21-06-2020
A great set of stories
Reviewed: 02-02-2018
I always kept meaning to get round to reading these three classics, so was very pleased to see they had come to Audio.
The first (Jekyll and Hyde) was much deeper than I imagined.
Frankenstein had me pitying the monster and getting furious with the doctor for his lack of compassion.
But my favourite was Dracula.
Well read, well paced and a thoroughly rip-roaring yarn.
In short, a great set of stories well read and well produced.
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Friday on My Mind
- By: Nicci French
- Narrated by: Beth Chalmers
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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When a corpse is found floating in the River Thames, the police can at least be sure that identifying the victim will be straightforward. Around the dead man's wrist is a hospital band. On it are the words 'Dr F. Klein'. But psychotherapist Frieda Klein is very much alive. And, after evidence linking her to the murder is discovered, she becomes the prime suspect.
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Drama
- By Anonymous User on 14-02-2020
- Friday on My Mind
- By: Nicci French
- Narrated by: Beth Chalmers
Good story well read
Reviewed: 11-01-2018
A couple of plot holes and a few extended periods of suspending belief but on the whole a well paced story.
I look forward to listening to the next in the series.
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Norse Mythology
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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The great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our storytelling - from Tolkien, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcliff to Game of Thrones and Marvel Comics. They are also an inspiration for Neil Gaiman's own award-bedecked, best-selling fiction. Now he reaches back through time to the original source stories in a thrilling and vivid rendition of the great Norse tales.
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Great book! Fantastic narration
- By Troy Abraham on 19-05-2017
- Norse Mythology
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
Great stories by a great reader
Reviewed: 14-06-2017
Once more Neil Gaiman ahows his class both through his writing and his ability to make a story live theough his reading.