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Washington Black
- By: Esi Edugyan
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an 11-year-old field slave - finds himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. The eccentric Christopher 'Titch' Wilde is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him. Titch's idealistic plans are soon shattered, and Washington finds himself in mortal danger.
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great read
- By Amazon Customer on 02-01-2019
- Washington Black
- By: Esi Edugyan
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
Incredible
Reviewed: 25-07-2019
Hooked from the first words. Such an incredible heartbreaking story. Dion Graham’s narration is perfect.
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Milkman
- By: Anna Burns
- Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.
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magic
- By Dr. Sue Tait on 12-09-2018
- Milkman
- By: Anna Burns
- Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
Worth it
Reviewed: 10-07-2019
This is not an easy page turner! Milkman is slow moving, complex, non linear and often prattling to the point of confusion but it’s also really captivating and personal. I’m not saying it’s for everyone but it’s well worth it.
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Spinning Silver
- By: Naomi Novik
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s too kindhearted to collect his debts. They face poverty until Miryem hardens her own heart and takes up his work in their village. Her success creates rumours she can turn silver into gold, which attract the fairy king of winter himself. He sets her an impossible challenge - and if she fails, she’ll die. Yet if she triumphs, it may mean a fate worse than death. And in her desperate efforts to succeed, Miryem unwittingly spins a web which draws in the unhappy daughter of a lord.
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Similar voices spoken.
- By Anonymous User on 28-07-2019
- Spinning Silver
- By: Naomi Novik
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
Entertaining and reliable
Reviewed: 05-05-2019
This book captured my imagination, kept me entertained and provided a brief escape from the ordinary. It was also predictable and uncomplicated. The perfect book for a lazy Sunday with a bottle of wine.
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The Familiars
- By: Stacey Halls
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married and pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband, Richard, is anxious for an heir. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn't supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy. Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby and to prove the physician wrong.
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lovely
- By Anonymous User on 21-08-2019
- The Familiars
- By: Stacey Halls
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
More family drama than historical fiction
Reviewed: 05-05-2019
As a story based on real people and true events during one of the most terrifying times in history for women I expected more atmosphere. This is a story about husbands, wives, neighbours and babies with a backdrop of witches and misogyny. It was certainly entertaining but not what I was expecting.
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The Barefoot Investor
- The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need
- By: Scott Pape
- Narrated by: Scott Pape
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the only money guide you'll ever need. That's a bold claim, given there are already thousands of finance books on the shelves. So what makes this one different? You'll get a step-by-step formula: open this account, then do this; call this person, and say this; invest money here and not there. All with a glass of wine in your hand.
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Absolute must read.
- By Charles D. on 05-07-2018
- The Barefoot Investor
- The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need
- By: Scott Pape
- Narrated by: Scott Pape
Hopeful
Reviewed: 08-03-2019
If you can forgive some some very blokey dad jokes, gender stereotyping and innuendo... this book is bottled financial hope.
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The Binding
- By: Bridget Collins
- Narrated by: Carl Prekopp
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
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Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice - but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. He will learn to handcraft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there’s something you want to forget, he can help. If there’s something you need to erase, he can assist. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible.
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One of the best love stories, ever.
- By Susan on 22-01-2019
- The Binding
- By: Bridget Collins
- Narrated by: Carl Prekopp
You will love this, whoever you are.
Reviewed: 06-02-2019
This book is so beautifully written and Carl Prekopp’s incredible narration and gravelly voice is a joy.
8 of 9 people found this review helpful
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Everything Under
- By: Daisy Johnson
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2018. Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn’t seen her mother since the age of 16, though - almost a lifetime ago - and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature. A phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel’s isolation and throws up questions from long ago....
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Predictable
- By Hannah Petroni on 22-01-2019
- Everything Under
- By: Daisy Johnson
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
Predictable
Reviewed: 22-01-2019
I loved how this story was narrated, particularly how the characters were personified differently from the different points of view! The non-linear story was intriguing but it was all working toward a big finish, which, when you guess it after the first two hours means you have 5 hours of listening to a story unfold exactly as you know it will...
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The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Overstory by Richard Powers, read by Suzanne Toren. The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
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A mind changing book!
- By Anonymous User on 17-12-2018
- The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Captivated from the first words
Reviewed: 11-01-2019
I loved this book! Its fantastic reading, as several great stories that grow, build, connect and diverge, until you realise Richard Powers has created a book that reflects its subject matter in every possible way and suddenly your mind is blown.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Circe
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally best-selling author of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer's Odyssey. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither the look nor the voice of divinity and is scorned and rejected by her kin. Increasingly isolated, she turns to mortals for companionship, leading her to discover a power forbidden to the gods: witchcraft.
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An absorbing book beautifully read
- By Helen Wilson on 26-12-2018
- Circe
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
An incredible reinvention
Reviewed: 14-07-2018
If you loved The Red Tent by Anita Diamant you will love this book! That too, was a wonderfully powerful story that tells an alternate version of a historically blighted woman. Perdita Weeks’ beautiful voice fits the tone of Circe perfectly, it was an absolute joy to listen to!
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Lincoln in the Bardo
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, George Saunders, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other, for no one but Saunders could conceive it. February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved 11-year-old son, Willie, dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery.
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Does not translate
- By Finding it in the end on 27-05-2017
Too many narrators
Reviewed: 25-01-2018
I can see how this would have been a brilliant book in a paper copy! It’s fantastically written the language is captivating but I can’t get past the ever changing narrators. Ive read and enjoyed full cast audiobooks but this is something else entirely... there was a full 45minutes of excerpts from other texts which were all narrated by different people and a second person referencing after each individually... it was stuttering and to my ears impossible to take in. First audio book I’ve not finished.