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The Elephant Vanishes
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi, Susan Momoko Hingley
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance33
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Story33
When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden. An insomniac wife wakes up in a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal.
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So disappointing
- By Susanne on 10-04-21
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The Elephant Vanishes
- Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi, Susan Momoko Hingley
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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Die 13 ½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär
- Zamonien 1
- By: Walter Moers
- Narrated by: Dirk Bach, Wolfgang Völz
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance28
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Story28
Ein Blaubär entführt den Hörer in eine Welt, in der Phantasie und Humor auf abenteuerliche Weise außer Kontrolle geraten sind. Dem Hörer geht es in dieser akustischen Neufassung wie der Hauptfigur: Gepackt vom Sog der Lesung Dirk Bachs geht es über sparsam, aber effektvoll eingesetzte Musik zu Zwergpiraten, Klabautergeistern und Gimpeln. Dramatische Klangbilder machen die Reise so plastisch, dass Finsterberge, der Große Wald, der Ewige Tornado, Atlantis u.v.m.
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Delightful Time-waster
- By Diane Severson on 04-10-22
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Die 13 ½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär
- Zamonien 1
- Narrated by: Dirk Bach, Wolfgang Völz
- Series: Zamonien, Book 1
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-11-13
- Language: German
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Will and Testament
- A Novel
- By: Vigdis Hjorth
- Narrated by: Nano Nagle
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance68
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Story68
When a dispute over her parents’ will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled 20 years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters, disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful part of the estate. To outsiders, it is a quarrel about property and favoritism. But Bergljot, who has borne a horrible secret since childhood, understands the gesture as something very different - a final attempt to suppress the truth and a cruel insult to the grievously injured.
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Gripping and intense
- By Stella on 23-04-23
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Will and Testament
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Nano Nagle
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 10-09-19
- Language: English
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Invitation to a Beheading
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance32
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Story32
Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition.
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Haunting and wonderfully sinister
- By S. Moorcroft on 22-03-22
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Invitation to a Beheading
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 29-11-10
- Language: English
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Tales from the Gas Station, Volume Two
- By: Jack Townsend
- Narrated by: Jon Grilz
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance22
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Story22
Nightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems. In this second installment of the Gas Station saga, Jack finds himself entangled in his most harrowing adventure yet.
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Gas station
- By Mark Liddicott on 05-01-26
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Tales from the Gas Station, Volume Two
- Narrated by: Jon Grilz
- Series: Tales from the Gas Station, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 27-08-24
- Language: English
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Shades of Grey
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Narrated by: Chris Harper, Jasper Fforde
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance41
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Story41
Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour. Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by marriage to Constance Oxblood. Until he is sent to the Outer Fringes where he meets Jane - a lowly Grey with an uncontrollable temper and a desire to see him killed. For Eddie, it's love at first sight. But his infatuation will lead him to discover that all is not as it seems in a world where everything that looks black and white is really shades of grey.
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Jane and eddy banter
- By DD on 23-02-26
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Shades of Grey
- Narrated by: Chris Harper, Jasper Fforde
- Series: Shades of Grey, Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-01-24
- Language: English
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Vanishing World
- By: Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance13
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Story13
Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell in love, had sex and procreated. As Amane grows up and enters adulthood, she does her best to fit in and live her life like the rest of society: cultivating intense relationships with anime characters, and limiting herself to extra-marital sex, as is the norm.
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Murata Continues To Shock and Amaze!
- By Anonymous on 20-05-25
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Vanishing World
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 08-05-25
- Language: English
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The Trial
- Penguin Classics
- By: Franz Kafka, Idris Parry - introduction, Idris Parry - translator
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall162
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Performance131
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Story132
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, winner of the 2019 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he...
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Could not stand narrator
- By James C. on 01-02-20
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The Trial
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 26-09-19
- Language: English
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Assumption
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
In Assumption, Percival Everett is on top form as he once again upends our expectations about characters, plot, race, and meaning. Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman’s murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up...
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Underwhelming
- By Shelfseeker on 05-06-25
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Assumption
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 21-03-24
- Language: English
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Will There Ever Be Another You
- By: Patricia Lockwood
- Narrated by: Patricia Lockwood
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
The world might be in disarray, but for one young woman, the very weave of herself seems to have loosened. Time and memories pass straight through her body, she’s afraid of her own floorboards, and ‘WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME’ plays over and over in her ears. ‘I’m sorry not to respond to your email,’ she writes, ‘but I live completely in the present now.’ But tearing through the slippery terrains of fiction and reality, the possibility for human connection seems to beckon from the other side – and with it, the chance for a blinding re-emergence into the world.
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Enjoyed this
- By Hexed on 24-01-26
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Will There Ever Be Another You
- Narrated by: Patricia Lockwood
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 23-09-25
- Language: English
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Unusual Uses For Olive Oil
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance42
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Story43
Life is so unfair, and it sends many things to try Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg. There is the undeserved rise of his rival (and owner of a one-legged dachshund), Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer; the interminable ramblings of the librarian, Herr Huber; and the condescension of his colleagues with regard to his unmarried state. But when his friend Ophelia Prinzel takes it upon herself to match-make, and duly produces a cheerful heiress with her own Schloss, it appears that the professor's true worth is about to be recognised.
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A True Delight
- By Patricia on 08-11-11
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Unusual Uses For Olive Oil
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Series: Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, Book 4
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 06-10-11
- Language: English
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Diary of a Void
- By: Emi Yagi, Lucy North - translator, David Boyd - translator
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance34
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Story34
When 34-year-old Ms Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace—a company that manufactures cardboard tubes—she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day, she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups—because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is...Ms Shibata is not pregnant.
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Surprising.
- By KiddoGirl on 05-04-26
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Diary of a Void
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 11-08-22
- Language: English
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The Employees
- By: Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken - translator
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
Brought to you by Penguin. On the Six-Thousand Ship, things have started to feel changed. Since bringing aboard a number of strange objects from a newly discovered planet, the crew – both human and humanoid – have begun to feel a yearning. They want to be near the objects, to feel them...
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The Employees
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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Cul-de-Sac Carnage
- Discount Dan's Backroom Bargains, Book 2
- By: James Hunter
- Narrated by: Steve Campbell
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance38
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Story38
With the shadow of the Flayed Monarch looming ever closer, Dan must prepare the store and himself for the battle to come. To stand a chance, he’ll need to expand his operations, broker a precarious trade deal with the Delvers of Howlers Hold, and transform his stash of relics into an arsenal of magical war crimes.
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Great second book to the series
- By Jon Sterling on 25-08-25
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Cul-de-Sac Carnage
- Discount Dan's Backroom Bargains, Book 2
- Narrated by: Steve Campbell
- Series: Discount Dan's Backroom Bargains, Book 2, Discount Dan's Backroom Bargains, Book 2
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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Oblomov
- By: Ivan Goncharov
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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Story20
A member of the landed gentry, with a seemingly guaranteed income from his estate in the country, Oblomov lives in Petersburg, uninterested in the business that provides his living and barely aware that the revenue is diminishing. Not that he leads a dissolute life of extravagance, balls and entertainment. Instead he is a dreamer, a sybarite, content above all to spend most of the day supine, in bed. The novel opens with Oblomov thus ensconced, attended only by his dirty, grumbling, indolent servant Zahar, who has looked after him since childhood, catering to his every need.
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Oblomov
- By Mary Gilbert on 19-07-23
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Oblomov
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 08-01-20
- Language: English
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Antkind: A Novel
- By: Charlie Kaufman
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall88
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Performance73
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Story73
B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film by an enigmatic outsider - a film he’s convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made, a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur 90 years to complete, B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity.
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The weirdest thing
- By Malwina Tritt on 18-01-21
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Antkind: A Novel
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 11-08-20
- Language: English
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The Dice Man
- By: Luke Rhinehart
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall129
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Performance117
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Story115
The cult classic that can still change your life… Let the dice decide! When a bored psychologist hands over all of his decisions to chance, making choices on the roll of a die, he transforms his life – and the world. Because when you follow the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining...
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Dull
- By Mr. G. Booth on 20-11-18
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The Dice Man
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-09-18
- Language: English
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Wetlands
- By: Charlotte Roche, Tim Mohr - translator
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance40
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Story40
With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany. The book is a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct, physical...
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Not Erotic!
- By JonR on 24-02-10
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Wetlands
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 25-06-09
- Language: English
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Woo Woo
- By: Ella Baxter
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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Overall1
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Sabine is a conceptual artist whose latest show, Fuck You, Help Me, is about to launch, when her world begins to unravel. Stalked by a mysterious figure whose approaches grow increasingly threatening, she spirals deeper into her neuroses as exhibition day approaches and her fear transforms into something primal and untamed.
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Pale Fire
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Overall85
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Performance69
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Story69
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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It's all very clever but...
- By CMV on 28-04-17
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Pale Fire
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-12-10
- Language: English
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