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Evergreens

by Liam Brown ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley, Harrie Dobby ...

Unabridged

8 hours 6 min

What if you could stay young forever? What if you never had to grow old?Ben has no qualms about signing up for the Evergreens project, a controversial new trial. But are the promises of life without ageing too good to be true?Sophie has no doubt that they are. And sixty-five years down the line, she gets the chance to find out.With Ben in hospital, unresponsive and ageing rapidly before her very ... Read more

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What if you could stay young forever? What if you never had to grow old?Ben has no qualms about signing up for the Evergreens project, a controversial new trial. But are the promises of life without ageing too good to be true?Sophie has no doubt that they are. And sixty-five years down the line, she gets the chance to find out.With Ben in hospital, unresponsive and ageing rapidly before her very
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The Wishkeeper's Apprentice

by Rachel Chivers Khoo ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Unabridged

2 hours 55 min

Wishes do come true—with some help from Felix and his quirky mentor, Mr. Beewinkle—in this magical adventure brimming with the power of hope.When ten-year-old Felix drops a penny in the wishing fountain at the center of town, he really doesn't expect his sixteen-year-old sister to suddenly like him again, or to offer to share a cinnamon bun or watch cartoons like they used to. She hasn't even ... Read more

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Wishes do come true—with some help from Felix and his quirky mentor, Mr. Beewinkle—in this magical adventure brimming with the power of hope.When ten-year-old Felix drops a penny in the wishing fountain at the center of town, he really doesn't expect his sixteen-year-old sister to suddenly like him again, or to offer to share a cinnamon bun or watch cartoons like they used to. She hasn't even
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Oblomov (Easy Classics)

by Ivan Goncharov, Gemma Barder ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series The Easy Classics Epic Collection
Unabridged

53 min

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Ilya Oblomov should be the happiest person in St Petersburg. He has a fashionable house, a large country estate, and endless invites to fancy dinners and glamorous balls. But Oblomov finds things difficult. The outside world overwhelms him. Even thinking about it makes him exhausted! He would much ... Read more

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An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Ilya Oblomov should be the happiest person in St Petersburg. He has a fashionable house, a large country estate, and endless invites to fancy dinners and glamorous balls. But Oblomov finds things difficult. The outside world overwhelms him. Even thinking about it makes him exhausted! He would much
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Ron Fawcett – Rock Athlete

The story of a climbing legend

by Ron Fawcett, Ed Douglas ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Unabridged

7 hours 20 min

WINNER: Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureRon Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, it seemed nothing else in his life mattered nearly as much as his next vertical fix.Ten years later, Fawcett was the most famous rock climber in Britain and ... Read more

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WINNER: Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureRon Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, it seemed nothing else in his life mattered nearly as much as his next vertical fix.Ten years later, Fawcett was the most famous rock climber in Britain and
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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

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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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Crime and Punishment (Easy Classics)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gemma Barder ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series The Easy Classics Epic Collection
Unabridged

55 min

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Once a promising young student, Raskolnikov does not know how he ended up poor and miserable. Determined to get his life back on track, he commits a terrible act. But as his desperate mother and sister turn up on his doorstep, and a stern police detective starts sniffing around, Raskolnikov’s troubles ... Read more

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An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Once a promising young student, Raskolnikov does not know how he ended up poor and miserable. Determined to get his life back on track, he commits a terrible act. But as his desperate mother and sister turn up on his doorstep, and a stern police detective starts sniffing around, Raskolnikov’s troubles
... Read more
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Bluffer's Guide To Dogs

Instant Wit and Wisdom

by Simon Whaley ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Unabridged

2 hours 28 min

Written by experts and offering readers the opportunity to pass off appropriated knowledge as their own, the Bluffer's Guides provide hard fact masquerading as frivolous observation in one witty, easy listen.Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of canine canniness. Never again confuse your BARF with your bite, your BAER with your bark, or your British ... Read more

$9.88 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Written by experts and offering readers the opportunity to pass off appropriated knowledge as their own, the Bluffer's Guides provide hard fact masquerading as frivolous observation in one witty, easy listen.Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of canine canniness. Never again confuse your BARF with your bite, your BAER with your bark, or your British
... 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

$13.17 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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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

$13.17 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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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

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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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Anna Karenina (Easy Classics)

by Leo Tolstoy, 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! Anna Karenina appears to have the perfect life. Young and beautiful, she lives in a fashionable house in Moscow with her respected husband and their young son. But Anna is deeply unhappy. Her older husband bores her, and she misses the lively city she grew up in. Then Count Vronsky, a dashing young ... Read more

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Anna Karenina appears to have the perfect life. Young and beautiful, she lives in a fashionable house in Moscow with her respected husband and their young son. But Anna is deeply unhappy. Her older husband bores her, and she misses the lively city she grew up in. Then Count Vronsky, a dashing young
... 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

$7.99 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