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W&N Essentials Audiobook Series

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    Troubles

    Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize 1970

    by J.G. Farrell ...
    Narrated by Kevin Hely ...
    Series series W&N Essentials

    Unabridged

    15 hours 44 min

    Winner of the 1970 lost Man Booker prize in 2010.Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the dim ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Singapore Grip

    NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA

    by J.G. Farrell ...
    Narrated by Mike Grady ...
    Series series W&N Essentials

    Unabridged

    25 hours 19 min

    A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author.Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss: This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore and, as we know, of much else besides.Not only the Blacketts, their friends and enemies ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Siege Of Krishnapur

    Winner of the Booker Prize

    by J.G. Farrell ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham ...
    Series series W&N Essentials

    Unabridged

    13 hours 1 min

    In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel. Then the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the British community retreats with shock into the Residency. They prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can muster. As ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    The Jewel in the Crown

    by Paul Scott ...
    Narrated by Richard Brown ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 41 min

    The first volume in Paul Scott's historical tour-de-force opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for self-rule. In the Mayapore gardens, Daphne Manners, daughter of the provincial governor, leaves her Indian lover, who will soon be arrested for her alleged rape. ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Offshore

    by Penelope Fitzgerald ...
    Narrated by Alan Hollinghurst, Jot Davies, Stephanie Racine ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 1 min

    WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEFEATURED ON BBC’S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUBPenelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames, with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the temporarily lost and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tide of the Thames ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Conservationist

    by Nadine Gordimer ...
    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    Mehring, a rich, powerful and vital industrialist, has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer. But his possessions refuse to remain objects: his wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; and even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize ... Read more

    $23.90 CAD

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    Life Class

    by Pat Barker ...
    Narrated by Eve Webster, Finlay Robertson, Juliet Prague, Kieran Bew ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Life Class Trilogy

    Unabridged

    8 hours 53 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heartFrom the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls'Triumphant, inspiring, shattering' The Times'Barker writes as brilli... ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    Staying On

    by Paul Scott ...
    Narrated by Richard Brown ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj and give voice to the loneliness, rage, and stubborn ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Ghost Road

    The third novel in the Booker Prize-winning World War One trilogy

    by Pat Barker ...
    Narrated by Simon Russell Beale ...
    Series series Regeneration

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The Booker Prize-winning final novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the acclaimed author of The Silence of the Girls1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Blue Flower

    by Penelope Fitzgerald ...
    Narrated by Thomas Judd, Stephanie Racine ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 59 min

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancée Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam.The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and brilliant, is seeking his father’s permission to announce his engagement to his heart’s desire: twelve-year-old Sophie. His astounded family and friends are amused and disturbed by ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    Border Crossing

    by Pat Barker ...
    Narrated by Jeremy Irvine ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 20 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.An unflinching novel on the nature of evil from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsWhen Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget. For Tom already knows Danny Miller. When Danny was ten Tom helped ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Netherland

    by Joseph O'Neill ...
    Narrated by Jefferson Mays ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans-a banker originally from the Netherlands-finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his ... Read more

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