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The Perfect Escape

by Daniel Hurst ...

Narrated by Laura Brydon, Dan Bottomley, Deirdra Whelan, Andy Creswell ...

Unabridged

5 hours 49 min

I just wanted a place where we could get away from it all. But coming here was one of the worst mistakes of my life . . .After the year Aidan and I have had, we needed some respite. My husband is overworked, whilst I'm anxious about the past, so renting a night at this converted barn house in the countryside seems like the perfect place for the pair of us to relax and unwind. It might be situated ... Read more

$18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

I just wanted a place where we could get away from it all. But coming here was one of the worst mistakes of my life . . .After the year Aidan and I have had, we needed some respite. My husband is overworked, whilst I'm anxious about the past, so renting a night at this converted barn house in the countryside seems like the perfect place for the pair of us to relax and unwind. It might be situated
... Read more
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Three Sisters (Easy Classics)

by Anton Chekhov, Gemma Barder ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series The Easy Classics Epic Collection
Unabridged

54 min

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! When their parents die, sisters Olga, Masha and Irina are left to look after their beautiful family home. Each sister longs for more from life: Olga and Irina want to return to Moscow, while Masha is miserably married to a man she does not love. Then their brother, Andrey, marries the demanding ... Read more

$7.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! When their parents die, sisters Olga, Masha and Irina are left to look after their beautiful family home. Each sister longs for more from life: Olga and Irina want to return to Moscow, while Masha is miserably married to a man she does not love. Then their brother, Andrey, marries the demanding
... Read more
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Eugene Onegin (Easy Classics)

by Alexander Pushkin, Gemma Barder ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series The Easy Classics Epic Collection
Unabridged

49 min

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Eugene Onegin is young, handsome, rich … and bored. Nothing impresses him: not his grand house filled with expensive furniture, not the glittering balls he attends, not the sumptuous dinners he eats. When his uncle dies, leaving him his rundown estate, Eugene moves to the countryside. Here he meets ... Read more

$7.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Eugene Onegin is young, handsome, rich … and bored. Nothing impresses him: not his grand house filled with expensive furniture, not the glittering balls he attends, not the sumptuous dinners he eats. When his uncle dies, leaving him his rundown estate, Eugene moves to the countryside. Here he meets
... Read more
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Melt

by Ele Fountain ...

Narrated by Charlie Sanderson, Dan Bottomley ...

Unabridged

4 hours 41 min

A breathless adventure of courage and survival in a warming climate.United by greed and self-interest. But not their own. A boy lives in a remote, snow-bound village with his elderly grandmother. Their traditional way of life is threatened by the changing snow and ice: it melts faster every year. When the sea-ice collapses while he is out hunting, he only just escapes with his life and is left ... Read more

$15.65 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A breathless adventure of courage and survival in a warming climate.United by greed and self-interest. But not their own. A boy lives in a remote, snow-bound village with his elderly grandmother. Their traditional way of life is threatened by the changing snow and ice: it melts faster every year. When the sea-ice collapses while he is out hunting, he only just escapes with his life and is left
... Read more
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Fathers and Sons (Easy Classics)

by Ivan Turgenev, Gemma Barder ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series The Easy Classics Epic Collection
Unabridged

54 min

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Nickolai Kirsanov is excited for his son’s return to their family estate – but not so thrilled to meet the strange friend he brings with him. While Arkady is friendly and kind, Bazarov is quiet, unemotional and only interested in cold hard facts. He is a Nihilist. Faced with glamorous balls and first ... Read more

$7.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Nickolai Kirsanov is excited for his son’s return to their family estate – but not so thrilled to meet the strange friend he brings with him. While Arkady is friendly and kind, Bazarov is quiet, unemotional and only interested in cold hard facts. He is a Nihilist. Faced with glamorous balls and first
... Read more
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The Upside Down River: Tomek's Journey

The Upside Down River, Book 1

by Jean-Claude Mourlevat ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Upside Down River
Unabridged

3 hours 59 min

Tomek lives a quiet life running his late parents' village store, which has everything you could ever need, and more. Then one day a girl visits. She asks Tomek if he sells something he's never heard of before: a drop of water from the magical River Qjar, which flows back to front and upside down. When he admits he has none, she slips away.Tomek is desperate to follow the mysterious girl, and so ... Read more

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Tomek lives a quiet life running his late parents' village store, which has everything you could ever need, and more. Then one day a girl visits. She asks Tomek if he sells something he's never heard of before: a drop of water from the magical River Qjar, which flows back to front and upside down. When he admits he has none, she slips away.Tomek is desperate to follow the mysterious girl, and so
... Read more
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What the Dark Whispers (DI Ridpath 11)

A gripping crime thriller from the ebook bestseller

by M J Lee ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series Audiobook 11 - DI Ripath Crime Thriller
Unabridged

7 hours 27 min

A web of lies. A confusion of secrets. A maze of murder.In a quiet Manchester suburb, a man sets himself on fire in a petrol station. Nearby, a fourteen-year-old girl murders her mother in cold blood.At the Coroner's Officer, Detective Inspector Ridpath is called in to investigate both of these baffling deaths. Is one a suicide and the other an unexplained murder? Or does something more sinister ... Read more

$17.50 USD

A web of lies. A confusion of secrets. A maze of murder.In a quiet Manchester suburb, a man sets himself on fire in a petrol station. Nearby, a fourteen-year-old girl murders her mother in cold blood.At the Coroner's Officer, Detective Inspector Ridpath is called in to investigate both of these baffling deaths. Is one a suicide and the other an unexplained murder? Or does something more sinister
... Read more
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What the Dead Want (DI Ridpath 10)

A twisty crime thriller full of suspense

by M J Lee ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series Audiobook 10 - DI Ripath Crime Thriller
Unabridged

9 hours 6 min

They are waiting for death. He is waiting to kill them.In May 2020, fourteen-year-old Andrew Golding went out for a walk following a row with his mum. He was never seen again.Four years later, when the press discovers police errors in Andrew Golding's case, DI Ridpath is called in to investigate. As Ridpath delves into the case, he slowly discovers something much bigger and far more brutal than he ... Read more

$20.00 USD

They are waiting for death. He is waiting to kill them.In May 2020, fourteen-year-old Andrew Golding went out for a walk following a row with his mum. He was never seen again.Four years later, when the press discovers police errors in Andrew Golding's case, DI Ridpath is called in to investigate. As Ridpath delves into the case, he slowly discovers something much bigger and far more brutal than he
... Read more
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The Spellbound Tree

by Kelly Ngai, Mikki Lish ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series Hoarder Hill series
Unabridged

5 hours 26 min

Return to the magic of Hoarder Hill in this spellbinding finale!When their magician grandpa is imprisoned in a snow globe, Hedy and Spencer – with cousins Jelly and Max – go in search of a magical way to free him in the final instalment of the House on Hoarder Hill trilogy.The Spellbound Tree is the source of all magic, but to find it the talented children must fight their way through the ... Read more

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Return to the magic of Hoarder Hill in this spellbinding finale!When their magician grandpa is imprisoned in a snow globe, Hedy and Spencer – with cousins Jelly and Max – go in search of a magical way to free him in the final instalment of the House on Hoarder Hill trilogy.The Spellbound Tree is the source of all magic, but to find it the talented children must fight their way through the
... Read more
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Brothers Karamazov, The (Easy Classics)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gemma Barder ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series The Easy Classics Epic Collection
Unabridged

54 min

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Dimitri is angry and reckless. Ivan is smart and logical. Alyosha is caring and forgiving. And their half-brother Smerdyakov is treated no better than a servant by their father. When Dimitri falls in love with a woman who isn’t his fiancée and sets out to get the money his father is keeping from him, ... Read more

$7.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Dimitri is angry and reckless. Ivan is smart and logical. Alyosha is caring and forgiving. And their half-brother Smerdyakov is treated no better than a servant by their father. When Dimitri falls in love with a woman who isn’t his fiancée and sets out to get the money his father is keeping from him,
... Read more
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What the Dying See

by M J Lee ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Unabridged

8 hours 21 min

The system is broken - and it wants you dead!An elderly ex-soldier is found dead in his home starved, alone and long forgotten. No one notices. No one cares.The same day, a man walks into a Manchester police station and calmly confesses: "I just killed my father."DI Thomas Ridpath is called to investigate both cases. What begins as two unconnected deaths soon unravels into something far more ... Read more

$20.00 USD

The system is broken - and it wants you dead!An elderly ex-soldier is found dead in his home starved, alone and long forgotten. No one notices. No one cares.The same day, a man walks into a Manchester police station and calmly confesses: "I just killed my father."DI Thomas Ridpath is called to investigate both cases. What begins as two unconnected deaths soon unravels into something far more
... Read more
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Where The Truth Lies

A completely gripping crime thriller

by M J Lee ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series Audiobook 1 - DI Ripath Crime Thriller
Unabridged

9 hours 51 min

The case was closed. Until people started dyingDI Thomas Ridpath was on the up in the Manchester CID: a promising detective who captured a notorious serial killer. But ten years later he's recovering from a serious illness and on the brink of being forced out of the police. Then the murders began, in an uncanny echo of his first case.As the death count grows, old records, and bodies, go missing. ... Read more

$20.00 USD

Also available as: eBook

The case was closed. Until people started dyingDI Thomas Ridpath was on the up in the Manchester CID: a promising detective who captured a notorious serial killer. But ten years later he's recovering from a serious illness and on the brink of being forced out of the police. Then the murders began, in an uncanny echo of his first case.As the death count grows, old records, and bodies, go missing.
... Read more

Also available as: eBook