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A Voice in the Night
- DI Wilkins Mysteries, Book 4
- By: Simon Mason
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story5 out of 5 stars 27
At 3:35 am, Greta Emmett wakes to a call from the Emergency Centre. Her husband's fall alarm had been activated five minutes ago and since then he's been unresponsive. He isn't in bed beside her and on further inspection she realises he's not even in the house. By 6:00am at St Aldates police station DCS Rebecca Wainwright, multi-decorated hero of celebrated investigations, is reading notes on her new team.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really enjoyed this.
- By Samsampickupyourmusket on 23-01-25
- A Voice in the Night
- DI Wilkins Mysteries, Book 4
- By: Simon Mason
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
Fantastic series
Reviewed: 19-01-25
Fantastic series and this is another great read. The Wilkinses are so well written and Matt Addis' narration is terrific. Now for the long wait until the next in the series!
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Between the Stops
- The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus
- By: Sandi Toksvig
- Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,208
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,862
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,858
'Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It's about a bus trip really, because it's my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker that plies its way from Dulwich, in South East London, where I was living, to where I sometimes work - at the BBC, in the heart of the capital. It's not a sensible way to write a memoir at all, probably, but it's the way things pop into your head as you travel, so it's my way'.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Marvellous listening
- By cwmbear on 06-11-19
- Between the Stops
- The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus
- By: Sandi Toksvig
- Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig
Laughed loud and often
Reviewed: 15-01-25
This book is, as you would expect from Toksvig, full of fascinating and unexpected facts. I thought I knew the parts of London well that the number 12 bus passes through but I shall see so much of it with fresh eyes now, thanks to her encyclopaedic brain.
Her own history was also full of fascinating and unexpected facts, recounted with much depth of feeling and also so much laughter. As I walked around listening to the audiobook, I startled quite a few people when I would suddenly burst out laughing at some well-timed quip.
Sandi is a very wise and very funny woman.
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Isle of the Dead
- DCI Bone Scottish Crime Thrillers, Book 5
- By: TG Reid
- Narrated by: Steve Worsley
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Enjoying a rare break in his remote lochside cabin, DCI Bone suddenly finds himself cut off when the mother of all snowstorms hits the Campsie Fells. Intrigued by the flickering lights from one of the loch’s uninhabited islands, Bone commandeers a local boat and heads out across stormy waters to investigate.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging
- By Carol B on 19-06-23
- Isle of the Dead
- DCI Bone Scottish Crime Thrillers, Book 5
- By: TG Reid
- Narrated by: Steve Worsley
Hooked
Reviewed: 04-01-25
Just finished this fifth thriller in this series and beginning the sixth. I am clearly hooked. They are a great pleasure to listen to, the stories are well told, and the characters well enough fleshed out.
Minor grammar grumble: "to lie" and "to lay" are two different verbs.
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Cher
- The Memoir, Part One
- By: Cher
- Narrated by: Stephanie J. Block
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 123
After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir. Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by the Kennedy Center.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Her wit and candour shine through
- By Jean Mc on 09-12-24
- Cher
- The Memoir, Part One
- By: Cher
- Narrated by: Stephanie J. Block
Fantastic!
Reviewed: 23-11-24
Loved all of it. Can't wait for the next installment.
She was born in the wagon of a travelin' show
Her mama used to dance for the money they'd throw...
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Cahokia Jazz
- By: Francis Spufford
- Narrated by: Andy Ingalls
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. It's 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on – a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, beautifully performed! 
- By J on 15-02-24
- Cahokia Jazz
- By: Francis Spufford
- Narrated by: Andy Ingalls
Wow!
Reviewed: 23-10-24
Great world-building, so well thought-through and fully fleshed out. I loved the principal characters and I thought the action was well paced. Terrific writing altogether and I was engrossed right up until the closing sentences.
It felt a bit like Raymond Chandler had written a new script for Blade Runner.
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Winter's Orbit
- By: Everina Maxwell
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 89
The Iskat Empire rules its vassal planets through a system of treaties—so when Prince Taam, key figure in a political alliance, is killed, a replacement must be found. His widower, Jainan, is rushed into an arranged marriage with the disreputable aristocrat Kiem, in a bid to keep rising hostilities between two worlds under control. But Prince Taam's death may not have been an accident, and when Jainan himself is a suspect, he and Kiem must navigate the perils of the Iskat court, solve a murder and prevent an interplanetary war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story, narrator choices disappoint
- By Amazon Customer on 27-12-21
- Winter's Orbit
- By: Everina Maxwell
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
Fabulous and fascinating
Reviewed: 15-10-24
This was recommended to me by a friend and since he was the person who recommended Katherine Addison to me some time back, I expected great things. And this excellent and well imagined story exceed my expectations. Loved the way various characters became real to me and swept me up in their adventure. So much invention in the world building - making the Iskat Empire real to me too.
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The Bee Sting
- By: Paul Murray
- Narrated by: Heather O’Sullivan, Barry Fitzgerald, Beau Holland, and others
- Length: 26 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,558
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,493
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,494
From the master of tragicomedy and award-winning author of Skippy Dies: a tour de force new novel about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is (maybe) ending. Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, a state-of-the-nation novel about one unhappy family in the midst of meltdown.
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4 out of 5 stars
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26 hours of brilliant storytelling, but such a disappointing ending
- By Zoe Burns on 07-08-23
- The Bee Sting
- By: Paul Murray
- Narrated by: Heather O’Sullivan, Barry Fitzgerald, Beau Holland, Ciaran O'Brien, Lisa Caruccio Came
Fantastic writing!
Reviewed: 09-10-24
Recommended to me by a friend and I wasn’t sure it would be my cup of tea. It read like the wind!
So perceptive, so philosophical, so tragic, so funny, and so human. Must find out what else he has written.
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Bury Your Gays
- By: Chuck Tingle
- Narrated by: TJ Klune, Liz Kerin, Stephen Graham Jones, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
Misha is a jaded scriptwriter who has been working in Hollywood for decades, and has just been nominated for his first Oscar. But when he's pressured by his producers to kill off a gay character in the upcoming season finale—"for the algorithm"—Misha discovers that it's not that simple. As he is haunted by his past, and past mistakes, Misha must risk everything to find a way to do what's right—before it's too late.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Leave any preconceptions behind
- By Scotty Law on 22-09-24
Great read!
Reviewed: 08-08-24
I loved this, from start to finish. So many clever themes running along together and such fine writing.
Thank you, Chuck!
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The Candle Man
- By: Alex Scarrow
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 82
1912: Locked in an eerily quiet dining room on the Titanic, a mysterious man tells a young girl his life story as the ship begins to sink. It all starts in Whitechapel, London in 1888.... In the small hours of the night in a darkened Whitechapel alley, young Mary Kelly stumbles upon a seriously injured man almost unconscious in the gutter. Two days later, an American gentleman wakes in a hospital bed with no memory of who he is or how he got there.…
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unputdownable
- By Wickerman49 on 22-07-14
- The Candle Man
- By: Alex Scarrow
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
Ripping good yarn!
Reviewed: 03-08-24
I wasn't at all sure I would enjoy this one. I have enjoyed the DCI Boyd books and this is all happens in a world that's a far cry from modern Hastings.
I worried that it would follow well trodden paths that have probably been travelled too often already but it was a gripping and original take on those themes and I was entirely absorbed by the excellent narrator's telling of Scarrow's story.
The author pulled off quite a feat in achieving the right tone here, since the story took some horribly dark turns at times. Accomplished story telling!
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Straight Acting
- The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
- By: Will Tosh
- Narrated by: Will Tosh
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9
Straight Acting is a surprising portrait of Shakespeare's queer lives - his own and those in his plays and poems. It is a journey back in time and through Shakespeare's England, revealing a culture that both endorsed and supressed same-sex desire. It is a call to stop making Shakespeare act straight and to recognise how queerness powerfully shaped the life and career of the world's most famous playwright.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A triumph!
- By rochstar on 23-11-24
- Straight Acting
- The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
- By: Will Tosh
- Narrated by: Will Tosh
Learned a lot!
Reviewed: 04-07-24
I thought I knew a fair bit about Shakespeare and about Elizabeth/Jacobean London, particularly the queer history. Not as much as this excellent and learned chap, who shared his knowledge plainly and with some passion.
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