Showing titles in Contemporary Fiction
-
-
Circle of Friends
- By: Maeve Binchy
- Narrated by: Kate Binchy
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall503
-
Performance436
-
Story433
In the small Irish town of Knockglen, best friends Bernadette ('Benny') and Eve are inseparable. Benny is an adored only child, and Eve, a poor, birdlike orphan brought up by nuns. On their first day at University College, Dublin, a fatal road accident brings the pair together with fellow...
-
-
Brilliant!!!!
- By Kate on 13-02-11
-
Circle of Friends
- Narrated by: Kate Binchy
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 27-03-09
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.35 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
This Heart of Mine
- By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall50
-
Performance31
-
Story31
New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips magic is vibrantly alive, and it's on display in This Heart of Mine, the fifth book in her wildly popular Chicago Stars series! Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest...
-
-
A really enjoyable read
- By Mrs J Geldard on 03-06-09
-
This Heart of Mine
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Series: Chicago Stars, Book 5
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 27-02-07
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£12.20 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Wicked!
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall221
-
Performance201
-
Story202
At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the facilities of his school with Larkminster Comprehensive - known locally, as 'Larks'. His reasons for doing so are purely financial, but he is encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the dynamic new head of Larks, who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure.
-
-
I am no prude but this is all about under age sex
- By Bella H on 22-11-19
-
Wicked!
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Series: Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8
- Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 20-09-18
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£21.79 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
A Treacherous Paradise
- By: Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson - translator
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall35
-
Performance32
-
Story33
A Treacherous Paradise sees Henning Mankell turn his talents for writing gripping thrillers to a world where power and powerlessness meet and passion is a dangerous commodity. Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia...
-
-
Mankell loses his touch
- By D. Cottam on 22-05-15
-
A Treacherous Paradise
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-06-13
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£9.48 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Orange Blossom Days
- By: Patricia Scanlan
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall117
-
Performance108
-
Story107
In a beautiful Southern Spanish town, where the sea sparkles and orange blossoms scent the air, the gates of a brand-new apartment complex, La Joya deAndalucía, glide open to welcome the new owners. Anna and Austen MacDonald, an Irish couple, are preparing to enjoy their retirement to the full. But the demands of family cause problems they have never foreseen and shake their marriage to the core. Sally-Ann Connolly Cooper, a feisty Texan mother of two young teenagers, is reeling from her husband's infidelity. La Joya becomes a place of solace for Sally.
-
-
a long story that didn't really go anywhere
- By Kez on 26-04-17
-
Orange Blossom Days
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-03-17
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£15.79 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Beastings
- By: Benjamin Myers
- Narrated by: Ralph Ineson
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall42
-
Performance35
-
Story35
When a teenage girl leaves the workhouse and abducts a child placed in her care, the local priest is called upon to retrieve them. Chased through the Cumbrian mountains of a distant past, the girl fights starvation and the elements, encountering the hermits, farmers and hunters who occupy the remote hillside communities. An American Southern Gothic tale set against the violent beauty of Northern England, Beastings is a sparse and poetic novel about morality, motherhood and corruption.
-
-
Terrible narration - OK story
- By J Salisbury on 28-04-22
-
Beastings
- Narrated by: Ralph Ineson
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 23-01-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£12.58 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Instructions for a Heatwave
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Dearbhla Molloy
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall525
-
Performance471
-
Story475
The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976.
-
-
Great book, brilliant performance
- By ronx59 on 23-08-13
-
Instructions for a Heatwave
- Narrated by: Dearbhla Molloy
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 28-02-13
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£10.76 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Paris Stories
- By: Mavis Gallant
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall10
-
Performance7
-
Story7
Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. They compose a secret history, both intimate and panoramic, of modern times, and offer a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris.
-
-
Flawless writing, performance ok
- By Mariachi on 14-10-13
-
Paris Stories
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 16-11-06
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£17.53 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools
- By: Victoria Twead
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall253
-
Performance235
-
Story233
If Joe and Vicky had known what relocating to a tiny mountain village in Andalucía would really be like, they might have hesitated. They can have no idea of the culture shock in store for them...no idea they'll become reluctant chicken farmers and own the most dangerous cockerel in Spain...no idea they'll help capture a vulture and be rescued by a mule. Will they stay, or will they return to the relative sanity of England?
-
-
FANTASTIC!!
- By Anonymous on 02-03-23
-
Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Series: Old Fools, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 21-06-18
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.33 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
From a Low and Quiet Sea
- Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018
- By: Donal Ryan
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan, Gerry O'Brien, Ramon Tikaram
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall200
-
Performance173
-
Story173
Random House presents the audiobook edition of From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan, read by Stephen Hogan, Gerry O'Brien and Ramon Tikaram. Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John’s past torments him as he nears his end. The refugee...
-
-
Strong and Poetic
- By Hugh M. Clarke on 14-05-18
-
From a Low and Quiet Sea
- Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan, Gerry O'Brien, Ramon Tikaram
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 22-03-18
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£7.76 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Snow in April
- By: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall59
-
Performance55
-
Story55
Caroline Cliburn was to be married next Tuesday, and yet she suspected that gratitude was the wrong reason to become a bride. Perhaps that was why she and her younger brother Jody had taken the long drive north to Scotland in search of her missing brother Angus.... When a sudden spring blizzard leaves them stranded by the roadside, it is the snow that gives both her and a lonely young Scot one last chance to find the healing warmth of love.
-
-
One of RP'S best. loved it
- By LMC on 22-01-19
-
Snow in April
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-04-18
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.35 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Girl
- By: Edna O'Brien
- Narrated by: Sheila Atim
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall117
-
Performance96
-
Story96
Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a girl herself, she must soon learn how to survive as a woman with a child of her own. Just as the world around her seems entirely consumed by madness, bound for hell, she is offered an escape of sorts - but only into another landscape of trials and terrors amidst the unforgiving wilds of northeastern Nigeria.
-
-
I loved this book!
- By Anonymous on 02-01-20
-
Girl
- Narrated by: Sheila Atim
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 26-09-19
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£12.58 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Ancestral Vices
- By: Tom Sharpe
- Narrated by: Griff Rhys Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall488
-
Performance412
-
Story407
When Lord Petrefact hires Walden Yapp, Professor of Demotic Historiography at Kloone University, to write a scurrilous family history Yapp finds plenty of material in Buscott village, where Frederick Petrefact is running the Mill and adding new vices to the family collection. If Yapp can lay his hands on the Petrefact Papers in the Buscott Museum he may be able to expose the multi-national capitalism of the Petrefacts to the whole world.
-
-
Rollicking good yarn
- By Clive on 01-12-13
-
Ancestral Vices
- Narrated by: Griff Rhys Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 16-08-11
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.63 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
A Kind Man
- By: Susan Hill
- Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall49
-
Performance34
-
Story33
Tommy Carr was a kind man; Eve had been able to tell that after half an hour of knowing him. There had never been a day when he had not shown her some small kindness. The birth of a daughter, Jeannie Eliza, crowns the young couple’s happiness - just as her shockingly early death casts them low. But they do not need to talk about Jeannie because she remains with them, and their love does not change.
-
-
a kindman
- By barbara bar on 14-04-13
-
A Kind Man
- Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 19-08-11
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£11.58 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Cartes Postales from Greece
- The runaway Sunday Times bestseller
- By: Victoria Hislop
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens, Esther Wane, Gareth Armstrong, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall304
-
Performance279
-
Story279
Cartes Postales from Greece is an extraordinary new book from Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of The Island, The Return, The Thread, and The Sunrise. It is fiction in full colour - magical and unique. 'Victoria Hislop writes so vividly about the Med, you can...
-
-
Fragmented and tenuous
- By V on 06-11-17
-
Cartes Postales from Greece
- The runaway Sunday Times bestseller
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens, Esther Wane, Gareth Armstrong, James Gant, Sandra Duncan, Victoria Hislop
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 22-09-16
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£16.51 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
I Capture the Castle
- A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- By: Dodie Smith
- Narrated by: Holliday Grainger, Toby Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall64
-
Performance50
-
Story53
Toby Jones and Holliday Grainger star in a new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dodie Smith's enduringly popular coming-of-age novel In the 1930s, seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain lives in a crumbling ruin of a castle in the Suffolk countryside. Her father, an author wrestling with...
-
-
A great dramatisation of a quirky story.
- By Lucy Mars on 05-11-21
-
I Capture the Castle
- A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- Narrated by: Holliday Grainger, Toby Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-03-16
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£7.76 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Is That You, Beth Cherry?
- the warm and witty new novel from the author of Irresponsible Adult
- By: Lucy Dillon
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall11
-
Performance10
-
Story10
Beth's life, like the unfinished manuscript on her laptop, is stuck. Since her devastating breakup with Fraser she's retreated into a lonely working-from-home world of sweatpants, disordered timekeeping and comfort eating. The one luminous constant in her life is her love for her rescue dog...
-
-
Really enjoyable
- By Janey H on 20-11-25
-
Is That You, Beth Cherry?
- the warm and witty new novel from the author of Irresponsible Adult
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£17.94 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Seventh Heaven
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall106
-
Performance97
-
Story96
Nora Silk doesn't really fit in on Hemlock Street, where every house looks the same. She's divorced. She wears a charm bracelet and high heels and red toreador pants. And the way she raises her kids is a scandal. But as time passes, the neighbors start having second thoughts about Nora. The women's apprehension evolves into admiration. The men's lust evolves into awe. The children are drawn to her in ways they can't explain.
-
-
Character-driven but a little unfocused
- By Joni J Mielke on 26-11-21
-
Seventh Heaven
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 26-08-14
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.27 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
The Memory of Love
- By: Aminatta Forna
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall270
-
Performance222
-
Story221
A poignant story about friendship, betrayal, obsession and second chances – this novel is an immensely powerful portrayal of human resilience. Sierra Leone: civil war has left an entire population with terrible secrets to keep. In the capital's hospital Kai, a gifted young surgeon, is plagued by demons. Elsewhere in the hospital lies Elias Cole, a university professor who recalls the love that drove him to acts that are far from heroic. As past and present intersect, Kai and Elias are drawn unwittingly closer and into the path of one woman at the centre of their stories.
-
-
Interwoven lives in conflict-affected Sierra Leone
- By Anthony Zwi on 22-08-13
-
The Memory of Love
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 07-09-11
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£21.79 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Drayton and Mackenzie
- 'Will have you hooked' The Times Best Summer Books
- By: Alexander Starritt
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall40
-
Performance39
-
Story39
'A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humour and intelligent observations ... I finished it tear-stained' Sunday Times 'Will have you hooked ... an ode to the enduring power of male friendship' The Times Best Summer Books For the first...
-
-
Wonderful characters. A great listen on Audible. Perfect narration.
- By Debbie Veitch on 06-04-26
-
Drayton and Mackenzie
- 'Will have you hooked' The Times Best Summer Books
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 09-09-25
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£18.89 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-