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Kate Shrewsday
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William Peskett
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This is my latest collection of short stories. As with the previous books, most of these 11 tales are set in Thailand. You can hear about a domestic cleaner who despairs of her feckless husband, a junior bank teller who tries to convince her boss there's been a murder, a lady in a hurry who won't stop to help an old man who's lost his shorts, a butcher and a restaurateur discussing farming techniques, and a lady-boy searching for love. You'll also find the diary of one of the last two people on Earth, a market-stall tableau, one man's vision of peaceful eternity, and more. It all adds up to a pretty varied package.
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When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: “Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.” His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi’s entrepreneurial cousin sets up a retirement home in India, hoping to re-create in Bangalore an elegant lost corner of England. Several retirees are enticed by the promise of indulgent living at a bargain price, but upon arriving, they are dismayed to find that restoration of the once sophisiticated hotel has stalled....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Screenwriters Changed it for the Better
- De Carole T. en 06-05-12
De: Deborah Moggach
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Death at the Chateau Bremont
- Verlaque and Bonnet Provençal Mystery Series, Book 1
- De: M.L. Longworth
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 143
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When local nobleman Étienne de Bremont falls to his death from the family château, it sets the historic town of Aix-en-Provence abuzz with rumors. The once-idyllic town suddenly seems filled with people who could have benefited from Bremont's death - including his playboy brother, François, who's heavily in debt and mixed up with some unsavory characters. But just as the list of suspects is being narrowed down, another death occurs. And this time, there can be no doubt - it's murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narrator is awful
- De F. M en 05-06-23
De: M.L. Longworth
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Ordinary Thunderstorms
- A Novel
- De: William Boyd
- Narrado por: Gideon Emery
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 235
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One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents, through which Adam loses everything—home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, cell phone—never to get them back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Story Teller
- De Dorothy en 09-07-14
De: William Boyd
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A Pleasure and a Calling
- A Novel
- De: Phil Hogan
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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You won't remember Mr. Heming. He was the estate agent who showed you around your comfortable home, suggested a financial package, negotiated a price with the owner, and called you with the good news. The less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the key. That's absurd, you laugh. Of all the many hundreds of houses he has sold, why would he still have the key to mine? The answer is; he has the keys to them all. William Heming's most at home in a stranger's private things.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Invisible Man
- De Janice en 02-05-15
De: Phil Hogan
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Us: A Novel
- De: David Nicholls
- Narrado por: David Haig
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 869
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 774
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Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that seduces beautiful Connie into a second date...and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades later, they live more or less happily in the London suburbs with their moody seventeen year-old son, Albie. Then Connie tells him she thinks she wants a divorce. The timing couldn’t be worse. Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s greatest works of art as a family, and she can’t bring herself to cancel. And maybe going ahead is for the best anyway? Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage, and might even help him to bond with Albie. Narrated from Douglas’s endearingly honest, slyly witty, and at times achingly optimistic point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves, and learning how to get closer to a son who’s always felt like a stranger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great novel - my favorite in years
- De Mark en 07-21-15
De: David Nicholls
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
- De: Sue Townsend
- Narrado por: Nicholas Barnes
- Duración: 5 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 210
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, and his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny little book
- De K Sto en 06-04-18
De: Sue Townsend
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Killed at the Whim of a Hat
- De: Colin Cotterill
- Narrado por: Jeany Park
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 170
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 168
Jimm Juree was a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail with a somewhat eccentric family. When she is forced to follow her family to a rural village on the coast of Southern Thailand, she’s convinced her career—maybe her life—is over. So when a van containing the skeletal remains of two hippies is inexplicably unearthed in a local farmer’s field, Jimm is thrilled. Shortly thereafter an abbot at a local Buddhist temple is viciously murdered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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delighted...
- De Bobbie en 08-23-11
De: Colin Cotterill
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44 Scotland Street
- De: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrado por: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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The brilliant Alexander McCall Smith became an international sensation with his New York Times best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels. His award-winning wit, made famous through that series, is fully on display in 44 Scotland Street.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Smith's answer to Maupin
- De Amazon Customer en 10-23-05
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The Dark Flood Rises
- A Novel
- De: Dame Margaret Drabble
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the West Country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Observed By An Exceptional Writer
- De Sara en 03-22-17
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The Forgotten Secret
- De: Kathleen McGurl
- Narrado por: Melanie MacHugh
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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It’s the summer of 1919, and Ellen O’Brien has her whole life ahead of her. Young, in love and leaving home for her first job, the future seems full of shining possibility. But war is brewing, and before long, Ellen and everyone around her are swept up by it. As Ireland is torn apart by the turmoil, Ellen finds herself facing the ultimate test of love and loyalty. A hundred years later and Clare Farrell has inherited a dilapidated old farmhouse in County Meath.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Forgotten Secret
- De Amazon Customer en 08-31-20
De: Kathleen McGurl
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Property
- Stories Between Two Novellas
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Lionel Shriver
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 45
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A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international best seller We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Painful and drawn out
- De JR en 06-27-18
De: Lionel Shriver
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Putney
- A Novel
- De: Sofka Zinovieff
- Narrado por: Michelle Ford
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man 20 years her senior. Masterfully told from three diverse viewpoints - victim, perpetrator, and witness - Putney is a subtle and enormously powerful novel about consent, agency, and what we tell ourselves to justify what we do, and what others do to us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the greatest stories of all time!
- De Valarie en 06-17-20
De: Sofka Zinovieff
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Staying On
- De: Paul Scott
- Narrado por: Paul Shelley
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return ‘home’ when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pankot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their imposing landlady threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Pleasant Meander
- De Ian C Robertson en 09-22-14
De: Paul Scott
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Almost French
- De: Sarah Turnbull
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 160
After backpacking her way around Europe journalist Sarah Turnbull is ready to embark on one last adventure before heading home to Sydney. A chance meeting with a charming Frenchman in Bucharest changes her travel plans forever. Acting on impulse, she agrees to visit Fredric in Paris for a week. Put a very French Frenchman together with a strong-willed Australian girl and the result is some spectacular - and often hilarious - cultural clashes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Almost Terrific
- De Elizabeth en 02-05-13
De: Sarah Turnbull
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I Predict a Riot
- Murder, Extortion & Carrot Cake
- De: Colin Bateman
- Narrado por: Adam Moore
- Duración: 21 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 28
Walter has a rubbish job, so has Margaret. But when they meet through a dating agency, neither is who they seem. Margaret's married for a start, and Walter's encounter with her husband, Billy, leaves him black and blue. Billy's a dodgy accountant for politician and racketeer Pink Harrison, who is about to come unstuck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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PICK ME PLEASE PICK ME WE'LL HAVE LOTS OF FUN
- De Louise en 10-19-08
De: Colin Bateman
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The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal
- De: Lilian Jackson Braun
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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Back in Pickax, Jim Qwilleran expects to resume a quiet life, but the people and animals of Pickax have other ideas. A noisy cardinal wakes him every morning. Nosy neighbors drop by uninvited, and the Siamese misbehave, even sneezing on guests. As if they weren't bad enough, Qwill's long-time companion acts as though she is in love, with another man. But worst of all, Qwill finds a body in his apple orchard.
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4 out of 5 stars
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lovely
- De Kindle Customer en 03-25-10
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Lord James Harrington and the Winter Mystery
- De: Lynn Florkiewicz
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 246
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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1957. Lord James Harrington and his wife, Beth, run a country hotel in the village of Cavendish, deep in the heart of West Sussex. James and Beth are discussing the latest Cavendish Players production, The Devil Incarnate, when their cleaner informs them that farmer Alec Grimes is missing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'm Officially Hooked On Lord Harrington
- De John en 12-18-17
De: Lynn Florkiewicz
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The Year of the Runaways
- De: Sunjeev Sahota
- Narrado por: Sartaj Garewal
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 80
Thirteen young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of a new life. Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar, and Avtar has a secret that binds him to protect the choatic Randeep. Randeep, in turn, has a visa wife in a flat on the other side of town: a clever, devout woman whose cupboards are full of her husband's clothes, in case the immigration men surprise her with a call.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Maybe easier to read than to listen to.
- De Eric en 06-15-16
De: Sunjeev Sahota