Brideshead Revisited
Written at the end of the World War II, this work mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by the austerities of war.
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Another Man's Life
Tom is married with kids. After losing two jobs in as many years, he is now a full-time house husband. Sean, his twin brother, runs his own business, has reservations at the right restaurants and...
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Bodily Harm
Reader: Bonnie Hurren
Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he...
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Oh, Play That Thing
Reader: Christian Conn
At the end of ‘A Star Called Henry', the first volume of ‘The Last Roundup' trilogy, we left Henry Smart on the run. He flees from Dublin to Liverpool and then to New York. And this is where...
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The Beautiful and Damned
Reader: Peter Marinker
In this, Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, loosely based on his tortured life with Zelda, we follow the wild, quarrelsome and pleasure-seeking careers of Anthony and Gloria Patch from success and...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Hidden away in the Record Department of the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunken father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck’s dad returns and kidnaps him, he must escape down the Mississippi...
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The Information
Reader: Steven Pacey
‘Any other writer would kill to reach this high style. Amis can stroll the heights at his leisure – the writing is on fire’ - Allison Pearson, Independent on Sunday.‘This is a book of...
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Money
Reader: Steven Pacey
John Self is addicted – to life.
Porn freak and jetsetter, aficionado of wealth and women, Self is the shameless heir to a fast-food culture where money beats out an insistent...£10.49 £20.99£25.50
Wool
Reader: Susannah Harker
In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules...
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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
Reader: Colin Buchanan
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realises that while he may have 74 friends on Facebook, there...
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Something to Tell You
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. His coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that...
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Narcissus and Goldmund
Reader: Simon Vance
Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely...
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The Old Devils
Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional...
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The Blind Assassin
Reader: Lorelei King
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.' Thus begins this novel. Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but...
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The Year of the Flood
Reader: Lorelei King
Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners - a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, the preservation of all species and the tending of the Earth - has long predicted...
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A Mother's Guide to Cheating
Reader: Clare Corbett
Carol married young - to philandering Phil - and became a mother young to highly-strung Jaz. Carol put up with Phil’s infidelities: suffer in silence and keep the family together was her...
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The Lollipop Shoes
Reader: Juliet Stevenson
Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop. Nothing unusual...
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The House of Sleep
Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has his life changed forever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac,...
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In One Person
Reader: John Benjamin Hickey
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love – tormented, funny, and affecting – and an impassioned embrace of our sexual...
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Lady Oracle
Reader: Lorelei King
From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to...
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Charlotte Gray
Reader: Jamie Glover
It is 1942. London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness as the Vichy regime clings ever closer to the Nazi occupier in their danse macabre. From Edinburgh, Charlotte Gray, a...
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Tender is the Night
Reader: Peter Marinker
Set on the dazzlingly beautiful French Riviera in the turbulent 1920s. Dick and Nicole Diver arrive in fashionable France – handsome, rich, glamorous and enormous fun. Their dinners are...
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The Master
'The Master' tells the story of Henry James, an American-born genius of the modern novel who becomes a connoisseur of exile, living among artists and aristocrats in Paris, Rome, Venice and...
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Father Figure
Reader: Carole Boyd
Jason Kirk is a thirty-two-year-old teacher who believes he is happily married until he returns home one day to find that his wife has left him, taking their two young children with her. Suddenly...
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