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Mortal Coil
- Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 5
- By: Derek Landy
- Narrated by: Brian Bowles
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Following the shocking revelations of DARK DAYS, get ready for the fifth instalment of the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series – guaranteed to contain at least 40% humour, 50% action, and 100% thrills…"The blonde girl with the black lips turned to Valkyrie. 'We know,' she said. 'We've seen the future. We know you're going to kill the world…'"Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back – just in time to see their whole world get turned upside down…
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Another Great story from the Skulduggery detective
- By Mark on 15-02-2016
- Mortal Coil
- Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 5
- By: Derek Landy
- Narrated by: Brian Bowles
Great book, lacklustre narrator
Reviewed: 22-06-2020
probably the best Skulduggery pleasant book so far but the narrator was very unimaginative. Rupert Degas is by far the better narrator.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Book 1
- By: J.K. Rowling
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!
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Stephen Fry was brilliant
- By John on 19-09-2016
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Book 1
- By: J.K. Rowling
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
It's Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter, enough said
Reviewed: 23-11-2019
An absolute modern classic read by the whole worlds favourite uncle. It doesn't get any better than this
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The Rosie Project
- Don Tillman, Book 1
- By: Graeme Simsion
- Narrated by: Dan O'Grady
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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The art of love is never a science.: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs The Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a 16-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers. Yet, Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities and. Don easily disqualifies her as a suitable candidate (even if she is "quite intelligent for a barmaid").
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Great read
- By Steven on 21-01-2015
- The Rosie Project
- Don Tillman, Book 1
- By: Graeme Simsion
- Narrated by: Dan O'Grady
A beautiful, funny and charming love story
Reviewed: 18-09-2019
Fantastic book! Lovable characters, hilarious situations, deep and meaningful moments, a heartwarming read. And this is coming from a Male!
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Life, the Universe, and Everything
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot get possibly worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-boggingly big and bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair.
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The Brilliance Continues
- By Benjamin on 27-01-2017
- Life, the Universe, and Everything
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
brilliant story, if a little hazy
Reviewed: 10-09-2019
It's Douglas Adams. You know it's going to be good. not as good as the first two mind, but essential reads all the same.
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The Dry
- By: Jane Harper
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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A story of desperation, resolution and small-town prejudice played out against the blistering extremes of life on the land. Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, a farmer turns his gun on his family and then himself. As questions mount and suspicion casts a long shadow over the parched town, specialist investigator Aaron Falk is forced to confront the community that rejected him 20 years earlier.
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Gripping Aussie crime thriller
- By Jane S on 11-01-2017
- The Dry
- By: Jane Harper
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
an Aussie outback Midsomer Murders
Reviewed: 02-09-2019
A brilliantly written murder mystery with an all-too-real glimpse into the harsh unforgiving world of the heart of the Australian outback. Great character development, good pacing, good narration and a few twists that will make you say "How did I miss that??" well worth a read
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Metro 2035
- By: Dmitry Glukhovsky
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
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World War Three wiped out the humankind. The planet is empty now. Huge cities became dust and ashes. Railroads are being eaten by rust. Abandoned satellites hang lonely in their orbits. Radio is mute on all frequencies. The only survivors of the last war were those who made it into the gates of the Metro, the subway system of Moscow city. It's there, hundreds of feet below the ground, in the vaults of what was constructed as the world's largest air-raid shelter, where now people try to outlive the end of days.
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Sad that it ended.
- By Daratar on 31-05-2018
- Metro 2035
- By: Dmitry Glukhovsky
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
Fantastic book series, anti-climactic ending
Reviewed: 17-12-2018
Amazing read! Fantastic narration, incredible literary universe, I just wish the ending was a little more dramatic to finish the series. Well worth the time none-the-less!
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Metro 2034
- By: Dmitry Glukhovsky
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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The Metro books have put Dmitry Glukhovsky in the vanguard of Russian speculative fiction alongside the creator of Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko. A year after the events of Metro 2033, the last few survivors of the apocalypse, surrounded by mutants and monsters, face a terrifying new danger as they hang on for survival in the tunnels of the Moscow Metro. Featuring blistering action, vivid and tough characters, claustrophobic tension and dark satire, the Metro books have become bestsellers across Europe.
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just boring
- By Jack Hebden on 20-01-2021
- Metro 2034
- By: Dmitry Glukhovsky
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
truly powerful.
Reviewed: 28-02-2017
A brilliant story. Almost as good as the first, but not quite. Highly recommended all the same
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Dracula
- By: Bram Stoker
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
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Chills race up and down young solicitor Jonathan Harker's spine as he enters the eerie castle of a Transylvanian count. His host, Count Dracula, is a curious creature who becomes enamored with the photograph of Harker's fiancée, Mina. Dracula decides he must find the enchanting Mina and have her as his own.
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Classic!
- By Kathleen on 01-08-2016
- Dracula
- By: Bram Stoker
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Classic!
Reviewed: 01-08-2016
Excellent story! Beautifully read, great narrative, a real gripping tale! Bram Stoker is indeed one of the great godfathers of horror fiction.
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Inside Out
- A Personal History of Pink Floyd
- By: Nick Mason
- Narrated by: Nick Mason
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Abridged
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Nick has been fantastically involved throughout the production of this download, so that it has become something far more than simply an author reading his work. For once, we can genuinely say this audiobook comes complete with bells and whistles, not to mention some Arctic winds, Venetian canals, telephones, aeroplanes, and a squealing pig or two!
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Excellent delivery
- By Kathleen on 27-06-2016
- Inside Out
- A Personal History of Pink Floyd
- By: Nick Mason
- Narrated by: Nick Mason
Excellent delivery
Reviewed: 27-06-2016
Beautifully read, but there was still parts of their history I would have liked to have heard about
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- By: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
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Dr Jekyll creates a potion whereby he can divide the good and evil parts of his personality and thus free the good side to work for the benefit of mankind without the distraction of his baser instincts. Unfortunately, he undertakes the experiment while the depraved side of his nature is in the ascendancy and turns into the repulsive Mr Hyde, whose very presence ‘emanates with foulness and decay’, and who bears the ‘signature of Satan’ on his face.
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Classic brilliance
- By Kathleen on 25-04-2016
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- By: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
Classic brilliance
Reviewed: 25-04-2016
Fantastic book, easily recognizable as one of the greats! Beautifully read and totally enthralling! Well worth a read.