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Gabriel's Moon
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a tragedy: every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as an acclaimed travel writer, capturing the changing landscapes in the grip of the Cold War. When he’s offered the chance to interview a political figure, his ambition leads him unwittingly into a web of duplicities and betrayals.
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Gabriel's Moon
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 05-09-24
- Language: English
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Martin Chuzzlewit
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens, William Boyd - introduction
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, William Boyd - introduction
- Length: 41 hrs and 33 mins
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Deeply distressed at thought of his singularly money-minded family circling around his inevitable death bed, when Old Martin Chuzzlewit comes across a young and kindly orphan girl, he immediately decides to take her into his employment. Offering her a comfortable living in exchange for her care and protection, Martin rests easy in the knowledge that her comfort will last only as long as he does; upon his death, Mary the orphan will find herself on the cold and dirty streets from whence she came.
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Wonderful Book - Worth Persevering
- By Head Coach on 26-12-18
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Martin Chuzzlewit
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, William Boyd - introduction
- Series: The Audible Dickens Collection
- Length: 41 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 13-11-18
- Language: English
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The Romantic
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Kobna Holbrook-Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
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Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his fortune across continents in war and in peace. He faces a terrible moral choice in a village in Sri Lanka as part of the East Indian Army. He enters the world of the Romantic Poets in Pisa. In Ravenna he meets a woman who will live in his heart for the rest of his days.
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The Romantic
- By monty niblet on 01-11-22
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The Romantic
- Narrated by: Kobna Holbrook-Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-10-22
- Language: English
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Any Human Heart
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Darren Boyd
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, and Logan Mountstuart's - stretching across the 20th century - is a rich tapestry of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and betrayed in the war and as an art-dealer in '60s New York, Logan mixes with the men and women who shape his times. But as a son, friend, lover and husband, he makes the same mistakes we all do in our search for happiness. Here, then, is the story of a life lived to the full - and a journey deep into a very human heart.
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Dull, uninspiring and superficial
- By Ms on 29-11-20
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Any Human Heart
- Narrated by: Darren Boyd
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-09-20
- Language: English
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The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: William Boyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth depicts the random encounters that bring the past bubbling to the surface, the impulsive decisions that irrevocably shape a life and the endless hesitations and loss of nerve that wickedly complicate it. These funny, surprising and strangely moving stories are a resounding confirmation of Boyd's powers as one of our most original and compelling storytellers.
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Get on with the next one!
- By Christina on 14-11-17
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The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth
- Narrated by: William Boyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 02-11-17
- Language: English
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Love Is Blind
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Love Is Blind by William Boyd. Love Is Blind is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in his life. In Paris, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist irrevocably changes his future - and sparks an obsessive love affair with a beautiful Russian soprano, Lika Blum.
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Brilliant
- By Sarklet on 14-10-18
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Love Is Blind
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 20-09-18
- Language: English
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Trio
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Hannah Arterton
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling, our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin' '60s British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the film is shot, with its usual drastic ups and downs, so does our trio's private, secret world begin to take over their public one. Pressures build inexorably - someone's going to crack. Or maybe they all will.
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Struggling with the narrator.
- By seg777 on 31-10-20
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Trio
- Narrated by: Hannah Arterton
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 08-10-20
- Language: English
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Ordinary Thunderstorms
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: John Heffernan
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
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One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money - never to get them back. With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to go underground, joining the ranks of the disappeared, struggling to understand how his life has unravelled so spectacularly.
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Not Williams best.
- By leonard dandridge on 01-04-23
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Ordinary Thunderstorms
- Narrated by: John Heffernan
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 08-10-20
- Language: English
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The Blue Afternoon
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed by an old man. When confronted, he explains that his name is Salvador Carriscant - and that he is her father. In a matter of weeks Kay will join Salvador on an extraordinary journey as they delve back into his past to not only learn the truth behind her own birth, but also to discover the whereabouts of a woman long thought dead - and to uncover the identity of a killer.
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Another excellent novel by William Boyd
- By Jo R on 06-08-21
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The Blue Afternoon
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 08-10-20
- Language: English
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The Dream Lover
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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Funny, moving and sharply observed, these stories are confirmation of Boyd's status as one of English fiction's finest writers. Here are 24 gripping tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood. This eclectic collection by the acclaimed author of Restless and Brazzaville Beach is a must for any lover of the short story.
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Totally Absorbing
- By Allegria on 20-04-18
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The Dream Lover
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 30-11-17
- Language: English
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Armadillo
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs
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One winter morning, Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - goes to keep a perfectly routine business appointment and finds a hanged man. A bad start to the day by anyone's standards and an ominous portent. For Lorimer works in the only-slightly corrupt business of financial adjusting, and he is about to learn that it is much uglier - and even more crooked - than he ever imagined. Suddenly, he's being unfairly blamed for all kinds of irregularities. Next, his life is threatened.
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Not one of his best unfortunately
- By Jacquie Lane on 31-08-24
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Armadillo
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 08-10-20
- Language: English
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Restless
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Richard and Judy Best Read, 2007.
Winner of the Costa Book Awards, Novel of the Year, 2006.
A Richard and Judy Book Club selection.
Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
What happens when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? During the summer of 1976, Ruth Gilmartin discovers that her very English mother, Sally, is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigrée and one-time spy.-
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A gripping and thoughtful book
- By Tom on 03-11-07
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Restless
- Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 30-10-07
- Language: English
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Waiting for Sunrise
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Jack Rowan
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One year later, home in London, Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies that is slowly, steadily permeating every corner of his life....
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Interesting story ruined by awful narration
- By John on 03-12-20
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Waiting for Sunrise
- Narrated by: Jack Rowan
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 15-10-20
- Language: English
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Sweet Caress
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
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Amory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer, uncle Greville, who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and,when he gives her a camera and some rudimentary lessons in photography, unleashes a passion that will irrevocably shape her future.
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Captivating
- By Bernadette Cullen on 11-08-22
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Sweet Caress
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-06-21
- Language: English
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William Boyd: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- A Good Man in Africa, An Ice Cream War, Restless and More
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Alan Rickman, Alison Steadman, Bill Paterson, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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A collection of BBC dramatisations and readings of William Boyd's award-winning novels and short stories. One of Britain's foremost contemporary writers, William Boyd is renowned worldwide for his bestselling novels, which have been translated into over 30 languages. He has won numerous awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award (for A Good Man in Africa), the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for An Ice-Cream War) and the Costa Book Award (for Restless).
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William Boyd: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- A Good Man in Africa, An Ice Cream War, Restless and More
- Narrated by: Alan Rickman, Alison Steadman, Bill Paterson, Bill Nighy, Tom Goodman-Hill, Ben Miles, Niamh Cusack, Fenella Woolgar, Eileen Aitkin, full cast
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 27-04-23
- Language: English
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Solo
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Dominic West
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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A James Bond novel written by William Boyd. It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore M’s orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice.
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I love Bond, but I didn't love this
- By O Day on 08-10-13
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Solo
- Narrated by: Dominic West
- Series: James Bond: The Collection, Book 44
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 26-09-13
- Language: English
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Brazzaville Beach
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponders the strange circumstances that led her to leave her husband, John, and his mathematical obsessions in England and venture to Africa to help world-renowned scientist Eugene Mallabar with his studies of wild chimps. But the more Hope studies Mallabar, the more she comes to believe that something isn't right. That behind Mallabar and his obsessive work there lies another more sinister truth: one that might also help explain Hope's reasons for leaving England.
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A great and famous book, bizarre narration
- By Christopher Hegan on 13-11-21
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Brazzaville Beach
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-10-20
- Language: English
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The Gifts of Reading
- By: Alice Pung, Robert Macfarlane, William Boyd, and others
- Narrated by: Frank Laverty, Gabrielle Glaister, Laila Pyne, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayists and poets. You will see books taking flight in flocks, migrating around the world, landing in people's hearts and changing them for a day or a year or a lifetime. You will see books sparking wonder or anger; throwing open windows into other languages, other cultures, other minds; causing people to fall in love or to fight for what is right.
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The Gifts of Reading
- Narrated by: Frank Laverty, Gabrielle Glaister, Laila Pyne, Rebecca Yeo, Shvorne Marks
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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Hopalong Cassidy
- The Phantom Bandito
- Narrated by: William Boyd
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 30-12-14
- Language: English
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Restless
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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"I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her daughter, Ruth, learns that everything she ever knew about her mother was a carefully constructed lie. Sally Gilmartin is a respectable English widow living in picturesque Cotswold village; Eva Delectorskaya was a rigorously trained World War II spy, a woman who carried fake passports and retreated to secret safe houses, a woman taught to lie and deceive, and above all, to never trust anyone. Three decades later the secrets of Sally's past still haunt her.
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Unmissable!
- By Joan on 03-02-07
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Restless
- Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 03-10-06
- Language: English
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