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  • The Parliamo Glasgow Omnibus

    by Stanley Baxter ...
    Visitors to the great Scottish metropolis of Glasgow are often puzzled by the colourful patois of the local citizens. A conversation about the weather opens with the mysterious phrase, 'Scummindooninbuckets'. In a bar your companions, apparently of Russian origin, greet each other with the names 'Amfurrahoff ', 'Giezahoff ' and 'Seezahoff '. You overhear a young damsel in the arms of her lover ... Read more

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    Whisky Galore

    by Compton MacKenzie ...
    Narrated by Stanley Baxter ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 58 min

    Stanley Baxter reads the witty Compton Mackenzie story set in the Scottish Islands. The inhabitants of Great and Little Toddy think they can cope with World War II - but then the whisky runs out. Life becomes intolerable, until fate delivers them a shipwreck with a cargo of whisky. ... Read more

    $8.19 USD

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    Stamboul Train

    by Graham Greene ...
    Narrated by Michael Maloney ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene.**Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naïve English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn into a web of espionage, murder and lies.'One of the most ... Read more

    $21.84 USD

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    No Fond Return of Love

    A Novel

    by Barbara Pym ...
    Narrated by Mary Sarah ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 2 min

    Three lonely people come together in this poignant, witty novel of star-crossed romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Jane and Prudence.After being jilted by her fiancé, Dulcie Mainwaring despairs of ever finding true love. For a distraction, she goes to a publishing conference, where she meets Viola Dace, a dramatic woman who refuses to live without romance, as well as Aylwin ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    One Man and His Bike

    A Life-Changing Journey All the Way Around the Coast of Britain - The Word-of-Mouth Bestseller

    by Mike Carter ...
    Narrated by Mike Carter ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 29 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling?Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride around the entire British coastline - the equivalent of London to Calcutta.He encountered drunken priests, drag queens and gnome sanctuaries. He met fellow travellers and people ... Read more

    $17.74 USD

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    The Durrells of Corfu

    by Michael Haag ...
    Narrated by Paul English ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 21 min

    Simon Nye's TV series, The Durrells, is based loosely on Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy and in particular his much-loved bestseller, My Family and Other Animals. These books in turn are based somewhat loosely on actual events. The real-life Durrells went to Corfu at the urging of Lawrence Durrell, who was already living on the island with his wife, Nancy Myers. Their intent was to keep the family ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Fear is the Key

    by Alistair MacLean ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Oliver ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico – and on the sea bed below it.A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy.The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    A Shilling for Candles

    by Josephine Tey ...
    Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...
    Series series Inspector Alan Grant

    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant is on the case. But the inquiry into her death turns into a nightmare of false leads and baffling clues. Was there anyone who didn't want lovely screen actress Christine Clay dead? ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Accidental Footballer

    by Pat Nevin ...
    Narrated by Pat Nevin ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 46 min

    ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A heroic outsider - a pleasure to read.' - The Guardian'A fulsome evocation of football before the Premier League.' - The i'Honest, raw, revealing and very funny. How to live a life and career to the full. Insightful book about the most successful outsider inside football ever...' - Henry Winter,</str... ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Whose Body?

    by Dorothy L Sayers ...
    Narrated by Robert Bathurst ...
    Series series Sorcha Editor D L Sayers

    Unabridged

    5 hours 47 min

    The first book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series - a must-listen for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries**.**It was the body of a tall stout man. On his dead face, a handsome pair of gold pince-nez mocked death with grotesque elegance.The body wore nothing else.Lord Peter Wimsey knew immediately what the corpse was supposed to be. His ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Peace Work

    by Spike Milligan ...
    Narrated by Spike Milligan ...
    Series series Spike Milligan War Memoirs

    Unabridged

    7 hours 52 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Peace work, written and read by Spike Milligan.'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away ...'The seventh and last volume of Spike Milligan's memoirs sees our hero returning from war and Italy ... but to what? Aside from shooting large, inaccurate guns at ... Read more

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    The Little Drummer Girl

    by John Le Carré ...
    Narrated by Adjoa Andoh ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 7 min

    “… sometimes it seems in this irresistible book that this is what we are all fighting for: the beauty of life and nothing else.”— The New York TimesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the creator of the iconic spy George Smiley, John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl is hailed as one of the author’s best, and the favorite of the likes of Steven King and John ... Read more

    $29.99 USD