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  • The Secret: The Number One Best-Selling Author of The Letter | Kathryn Hughes

    The Secret: The Number One Best-Selling Author of The Letter

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 18 mins)
    • By Kathryn Hughes
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    Mary has been nursing a secret. Forty years ago, she made a choice that would change her world for ever, and alter the path of someone she holds dear. Beth is searching for answers. She has never known the truth about her parentage, but finding out could be the lifeline her sick child so desperately needs. When Beth finds a faded newspaper cutting amongst her mother's things, she realises the key to her son's future lies in her own past. She must go back to where it all began to unlock...the Secret.

    M.A. says: "Very good book. Recommended."
  • The Letter | Kathryn Hughes

    The Letter

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 11 mins)
    • By Kathryn Hughes
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
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    The Number One Kindle best seller guaranteed to break your heart. Every so often a love story comes along to remind us that sometimes, in our darkest hour, hope shines a candle to light our way. Discover the Number One best seller that has captured thousands of hearts worldwide.... Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. She works all the hours God sends to save up enough money to leave him, also volunteering in a charity shop to avoid her unhappy home.

    Sheila says: "Brilliant"
  • I See You | Clare Mackintosh

    I See You

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 59 mins)
    • By Clare Mackintosh
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    When Zoe Walker sees her photo in the classifieds section of a London newspaper, she is determined to find out why it's there. There's no explanation, no website - just a grainy image and a phone number. She takes it home to her family, who are convinced it's just someone who looks like Zoe. But the next day the advert shows a photo of a different woman, and another the day after that.Is it a mistake? A coincidence? Or is someone keeping track of every move they make?

    Simon says: "I See Something Very, Very Impressive Here!"
  • Swimming Lessons | Claire Fuller

    Swimming Lessons

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 23 mins)
    • By Claire Fuller
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
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    Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides each in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter, she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her beautiful but dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan. Twelve years after her disappearance, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window.

    android1968 says: "Great!"
  • The Stranger in My Home: I thought she was my daughter. I was wrong. | Adele Parks

    The Stranger in My Home: I thought she was my daughter. I was wrong.

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 38 mins)
    • By Adele Parks
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    Alison is lucky, and she knows it. She has the life she always craved, including a happy home with Jeff and their brilliant, vivacious teenage daughter, Katherine - the absolute centre of Alison's world. Then a knock at the door ends life as they know it. Fifteen years ago someone else took Alison's baby from the hospital. And now Alison is facing the unthinkable. Her daughter belongs to someone else. What would you do if you discovered your beloved child is not yours?

    Miss C. says: "On and on and on. !!!"
  • Late Summer in the Vineyard | Jo Thomas

    Late Summer in the Vineyard

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 19 mins)
    • By Jo Thomas
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    Working for a winemaker in France is the opportunity of a lifetime for Emmy. Even if she doesn't know a thing about wine beyond what's on offer at the local supermarket. There's plenty to get to grips with in the rustic town of Petit Frère. Emmy's new work friends need more than a little winning over. Then there's her infuriatingly brash tutor, Isaac, and the enigmatic Madame Beaumont tucked away in her vineyard of secrets. But Emmy will soon realise that in life - just as in winemaking - the best things happen when you let go and trust your instincts.

    Temi says: "Made me fall in love with French and Wine"
  • Close to Me: A gripping psychological thriller about secrets and lies

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    • By Amanda Reynolds
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    When Jo Harding falls down the stairs at home, she wakes up in hospital with partial amnesia - she's lost a whole year of memories. A lot can happen in a year. Was Jo having an affair? Lying to her family? Starting a new life? She can't remember what she did - or what happened the night she fell. But she's beginning to realise she might not be as good a wife and mother as she thought.

  • The Olive Branch | Jo Thomas

    The Olive Branch

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 44 mins)
    • By Jo Thomas
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    It's amazing what you can buy online these days: memorabilia, fashion accessories, a crumbling Italian farmhouse... After a Prosecco-fuelled girls' night in gets out of hand, Ruthie Collins awakes to discover that she has bid for her dream Italian home online - and won. Recently out of a relationship, a new start is just what she needs. Anything is better than sleeping on her mum's settee.

    Pipsicalpopsicle says: "A transporting romance"
  • How to Negotiate Effectively: Creating Success Series | David Oliver

    How to Negotiate Effectively: Creating Success Series

    • UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 54 mins)
    • By David Oliver
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    How to Negotiate Effectively provides tips, tools, and techniques for getting it right. It explores and advises on every aspect of the negotiation process, including: tactics and counter-measures, handling deadlock, making concessions, enhancing your authority, and getting the best deal.

    Dr says: "Useful guide to negotiation"
  • Develop Your Assertiveness: Creating Success Series | Sue Bishop

    Develop Your Assertiveness: Creating Success Series

    • UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 39 mins)
    • By Sue Bishop
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    Being assertive is being able to express yourself with confidence so that you don t have to resort to being passive, aggressive or manipulative. By developing assertiveness and becoming aware of our own strengths and weaknesses, you can learn how best to modify your behaviour in social and business interactions. Develop Your Assertiveness offers simple techniques to enable you to become more assertive.

    BD says: "Good intro with practical exercises/tactics"
  • Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match | Wendy Moore

    Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 35 mins)
    • By Wendy Moore
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    Wedlock is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore, who died young, and, pregnant with her lover's child, Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary was bowled over and married him within the week. But nothing was as it seemed. Stoney was broke and his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy.

    Twinkle984 says: "Gripping"
  • The Quality of Silence | Rosamund Lupton

    The Quality of Silence

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 9 mins)
    • By Rosamund Lupton
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins, Harriet Carmichael
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    Set in the extreme landscape of Alaska, The Quality of Silence follows the story of Yasmin and her deaf daughter, Ruby. Yasmin arrives in Alaska to be told her husband, Matt, is dead, the victim of a catastrophic accident. Yasmin, unable to accept this as truth, sets out into the frozen winter landscape, taking Ruby with her, in search of answers. But as a storm closes in, Yasmin realises that a very human danger may be keeping pace with them.

    B Gumbrell says: "Fantastic start but ludicrous storyline"
  • The Crooked House | Christobel Kent

    The Crooked House

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 5 mins)
    • By Christobel Kent
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    One fateful night. One unthinkable family tragedy. One survivor. This is Alison's story. Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train and Apple Tree Yard, this stunning psychological thriller follows one woman's search for the truth about her family history. Alison is as close to anonymous as she can get: With no ties and a backroom job, hers is a life lived under the radar. But once Alison was someone else: Once she was Esme, a teenager whose bedroom sat at the top of a remote house on a bleak estuary.

    Pam says: "Best book Iv listened to this year"
  • An Almond for a Parrot | Wray Delaney

    An Almond for a Parrot

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 52 mins)
    • By Wray Delaney
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    I would like to make myself the heroine of this story and my character to be noble - an innocent victim led astray. But alas, sir, I would be lying.... Tully Truegood: orphan. Magician's apprentice. Whore. In prison, accused of murder, Tully begins to write her life story. A story that takes her from a young daughter-skivvy in the back streets of 18th-century London to her stepmother Queenie's fairy house - a place where decadent excess is a must....

  • Disobedience | Naomi Alderman

    Disobedience

    • UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 22 mins)
    • By Naomi Alderman
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    In a cramped synagogue in north-west London, the eminent elderly rabbi passes away. On the other side of the Atlantic, his estranged daughter, Ronit, hears of her father's death and returns to London for the funeral. She has not returned home in 15 years. Ronit looks forward to a week or two of revisiting old friends, perhaps settling old scores. But she finds the community she grew up in a more confusing place than she'd anticipated.

  • The Last Days of Leda Grey | Essie Fox

    The Last Days of Leda Grey

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 19 mins)
    • By Essie Fox
    • Narrated By Peter Noble, Rachel Atkins
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
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    During the oppressive heat wave of 1976, a young journalist, Ed Peters, finds an Edwardian photograph in a junk shop in the Brighton Lanes. It shows an alluring dark-haired girl, an actress whose name was Leda Grey. Leda Grey is living still, in a decaying clifftop house once shared with a man called Charles Beauvois, a director of early silent film. As Beauvois' lover and his muse, Leda often starred in scenes where stage magic and trick photography were used to astonishing effect.

    Finakilly Chris says: "Decadent, gorgeous and delightfully unsettling"
  • Honeycote | Veronica Henry

    Honeycote

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 9 mins)
    • By Veronica Henry
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    The Liddiard family have lived in Honeycote for generations. But that just might be changing.... Mickey Liddiard adores his wife, Lucy - so why he is cheating on her with Kay? James Liddiard has been in love with Lucy for years. So when he discovers Mickey is being unfaithful, could this be his opportunity? Kay is most definitely not happily married - it was the money which first attracted her to her husband. But now, could Mickey hold the key to her heart and her happiness?

    LJ says: "Very predictable"
  • Happy Endings | Trisha Ashley

    Happy Endings

    • UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 19 mins)
    • By Trisha Ashley
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    Tina Devino is a moderately successful romantic novelist who longs to enter the realms of bestsellerdom. But her own life is a world away from that of her romantic heroines. Her off-on lover, the exotic former Russian ballet star, Sergei Popov, seems to be drifting away, and her position on the Salubrious Press fiction list is threatened by younger, more glamorous authors. She knows if the sales of her latest book don't improve dramatically, it might be her final novel.

    Cornish Jan says: "Laugh out loud"
  • The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince | Robin Hobb

    The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince

    • UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 29 mins)
    • By Robin Hobb
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    Internationally-bestselling, critically-acclaimed author Robin Hobb takes readers deep into the history behind the Farseer series in this exclusive, new novella. One of the darkest legends in the Realm of the Elderlings recounts the tale of the so-called Piebald Prince, a Witted pretender to the throne unseated by the actions of brave nobles so that the Farseer line could continue untainted. Now the truth behind the story is revealed through the account of Felicity, a low-born companion of the Princess Caution at Buckkeep.

    Mrs. B. A. Leatham says: "A great short story"
  • Under a Blood Red Sky | Kate Furnivall

    Under a Blood Red Sky

    • UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 17 mins)
    • By Kate Furnivall
    • Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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    Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Sofia Morozova knows she has to escape. Only two things have sustained her through the bitter cold, aching hunger and hard labour: the prospect of one day walking free; and the stories told by her friend Anna, beguiling tales of a charmed upbringing in Petrograd - and of Anna's fervent love for a passionate revolutionary, Vasily. So, when Anna falls gravely ill, Sofia makes a promise to escape the camp and find Vasily....

    bookylady says: "Wonderful Story full of Haunting Images"
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