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Pub. Date
2019
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Paul Stewart has returned to Scotland to continue his successful career. His agent and girlfriend, Gloria, has arranged for him to write The Philosophy of Food in Six Easy Chapters, a project he relishes but that will have to be delivered in six months. It is not going well, as Paul finds his domestic circumstances unsuited to concentrated hard work: Gloria has now moved in with him (not specifically invited) and has brought with her two extremely...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2014
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Deepest winter. An isolated island off the coast of Maine. A man. A woman. Puppets. (Yes, puppets . . .) And . . . A mysterious house looming over the sea . . . He's a reclusive writer whose imagination creates chilling horror novels. She's a down-on-her-luck actress reduced to staging kids' puppet shows. He knows a dozen ways to kill his characters with his bare hands. She knows a dozen ways to kill an audience with laughs. But she's not laughing...
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Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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Gabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book's eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this spellbinding collection of forty poems, which wrestle with betrayal and forced obedience, violence and young womanhood, and the "forbidden felt language" of sexual and sacred love. These poems conjure encounters...
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Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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A resplendent life in sonnets from the author of Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without," Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss's working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again....
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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When I was younger I wanted to be an interesting, sophisticated, semi-heroic, multi-layered person. BUT that kind of perfect is impossible. Being an actual tw*t is much more the real me. Sorry to boast, but I am a champion tw*t. In The Tw*t Files I will tell you about all the times I?ve been a total and utter tw*t. The moments where I?ve misunderstood stuff and messed up. In my life these have been key because: Mistakes tell us about ourselves. Mistakes...
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HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, California, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep contemplation and to achieve enlightenment. Kerouac's experience on Desolation Peak forms the climax of his novel The Dharma Bums and has also been depicted in part 1 of Desolation Angels and...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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2019. Dawn. The River Humber. A misty February walk. Surprise early daffodils. A picture taken. Then forgotten. Because five hours later my world shattered. My mother jumped off the Humber Bridge. Had those yellow flowers not delayed me, I might have been there. Could I have stopped her? In the aftermath of this violent act, I turned to my writing, to my beloved siblings, to our only uncle. I was forced to look at events that led to this suicide attempt....
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Pub. Date
2024
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It?s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, befriends one of Crosby?s...
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Canelo
Pub. Date
2017
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Months after a being involved in a terrible car crash, Bryn Harper is physically healed but her emotional scars remain raw. She has no memory of the accident and is plagued with bad dreams. When Bryn and her husband, Guy, host a dinner party Bryn swears money has been stolen while Guy seems unfazed. Bryn confronts the caterer that night and is horrified to discover the woman?s brutally slain body the next day. As the case is investigated, Bryn is...
10) The god desire
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Publisher
Bolinda/HarperCollins UK
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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David Baddiel would love for there to be a God. He has spent a lot of time fantasising about how much better life would be if there actually was such a thing as a Superhero Dad who chased off Death. Unfortunately for him, there isn?t. Or at least, that is Baddiel?s view in this audiobook, which argues that it is indeed the very intensity of his, and everyone else?s, desire for God to exist that proves His non-existence. Anything so deeply wished-for,...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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When big-shot literary agent Peter Katz receives an unfinished manuscript entitled The Book of Mirrors, he is intrigued. The author, Richard Flynn is writing a memoir about his time at Princeton in the late '80s, documenting his relationship with the famous Professor Joseph Wieder. One night in 1987, Wieder was brutally murdered in his home and the case was never solved. Peter Katz is hell-bent on getting to the bottom of what happened that night...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
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It's 1946 and Juliet Ashton can't think what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - by chance, he's acquired a book that once belonged to her - and, spurred on by their mutual love of reading, they begin a correspondence. When Dawsey reveals that he is a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, her curiosity is piqued and it's not long before she begins to hear from other members....
13) Mr Toppit
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When Arthur Hayman, author of The Hayseed Chronicles, dies, a bizarre chain of events conspires to make his series of children's novels world-famous. But buried deep inside the books lie secrets that begin to shake Arthur's family - his son, Luke, reluctantly immortalized as the young hero; his daughter, Rachel, for whom the books are a hole through which her life has fallen; and his enigmatic wife, Martha, who knows that secrets are best kept well-hidden....
14) Country girl
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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, corssed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enough to live in these two intensities that have buttressed my whole life . . . The publication of Edna O'Brien's memoir is one of the major literary events...
15) The doll house
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You never know who?s watching? Corinne?s life might look perfect on the outside, but after three failed IVF attempts it?s her last chance to have a baby. And when she finds a tiny part of a doll house outside her flat, it feels as if it?s a sign. But as more pieces begin to turn up, Corinne realises that they are far too familiar. Someone knows about the miniature rocking horse and the little doll with its red velvet dress. Someone has been inside...
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BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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Two new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Roald Dahl?s gripping autobiographical stories These two compelling adaptations, based on Roald Dahl?s real-life tales of his boyhood and youthful overseas adventures, celebrate his remarkable life and commemorate his genius. Boy (CD 1) Dahl?s childhood was one of excitement, wonder, terror and sadness. From his fascination with the local sweetshop to the Great Mouse Plot, the horrors of boarding school,...
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Polygon
Pub. Date
2011
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Now J K Rowling is at the heart of a global media phenomenon, wealthier, and more influential and successful than she could possibly have imagined. The Harry Potter novels changed her life, and the landscape of writing, publishing and bookselling for children forever. This unauthorised biography follows the transformation of a lonely single mother into a powerful inspirational businesswoman. J K Rowling?s story is one of talent, hard work, self-belief...
18) I know it's you
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Pub. Date
2023
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The story ... The first chapter of a manuscript arrives on Publisher Marina?s desk. She assumes it?s just another novel by another aspiring writer. The secret ... As the chapters arrive one by one, Marina is convinced they are about her past. There?s only one person who can know everything about the scandal, the trial and the trauma that nearly broke her. The silence ... This is one story that should never be told, and Marina is so desperate she will...
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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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'Every page sparkles.' Claire Tomalin 'Crackling with gusto and sympathetic intelligence' Andrew Motion 'A triumph.' Matt Haig 'Stylish, scholarly and gripping' Rose Tremain John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral...
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ABC Audio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bounds, in a laundry cupboard. Finally, Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I spans a decade beginning in the late 1970s just after the publication of her first novel,...
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