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Bodies from the Library

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By: Tony Medawar , Agatha Christie , Georgette Heyer , A. A. Milne , NIcholas Blake , Christianna Brand , Philip Bretherton

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together a selection of tales by masters of the Golden Age of De

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Alan Garner BBC Radio Drama Collection

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Alan Garner is an English novelist best known for his fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of his work is rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, bein

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Mark Twain: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

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BBC radio productions of Mark Twain's very best novels and short stories - plus bonus material

Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens), was one of the foremost writers and humorists to come out of the United States. Hailed by William Faulk

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The Monogram Murders

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Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice wi

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The Virginia Woolf BBC Radio Drama Collection

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The collected BBC radio adaptations of Virginia Woolf's major novels are a series of acclaimed audio dramas, featuring star casts like Vanessa Redgrave and Kristin Scott-Thomas, bringing her modernist masterpieces like Mrs Dalloway, To the Lightho

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The Christmas Pig by J.K. Rowling

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One boy and his toy are about to change everything....

Jack loves his childhood toy Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve something terrible happens - DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for

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The Child

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The Child by Sebastian Fitzek is a gripping Audible audio drama about a lawyer, Robert Stern, who takes on the case of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy, Simon, who claims he was a serial killer in a past life, leading Stern to discover actual bodi

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Day Release

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A moment of reprieve. Nobody knows you. No one owns you. You're on day release.

Lenny Henry plays double murderer Frank Watt, who is getting ready to face life on the outside after 30 years in prison. He's looking forward to getting out, but thing

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A Walk in the Dark

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A five-part vintage crime drama about a mysterious death on an ocean liner.

Aboard the Carthena, on its way from Sydney to Southampton, a passenger walks on the dark deck, unaware his death is only seconds away. It's a death which will set in moti

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The Crack

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A long weekend in Liverpool, one murder and four stunning dramas

A fantastic four-part series, this story of interwoven lives is set in Liverpool over a long weekend, created in collaboration by four Liverpudlian writers. In each of the stories th

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Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula

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Book 1 of 3: The Supernatural Casefiles of Sherlock Holmes

 

From the Supernatural Case Files of Sherlock Holmes, London's most beloved detective encounters his most deadly foe, and the results will be unlike any Sherlock Holmes adventure before i

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Slumdog Millionaire

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Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel, the inspiration for the award-winning film, opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all 12 questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Bil

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Murder in Aland

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A taut new thriller exploring espionage, power, and mystery at Europe’s northern edge.

Set against the stark beauty of the Åland archipelago – a demilitarised Finnish territory where Swedish is the official language and Russia still watches from a

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Lines from My Grandfather’s Forehead

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Eight episodes of the vintage BBC Radio comedy starring Ronnie Barker

Created by Ronnie Barker and producer John Fawcett Wilson, Lines From My Grandfather’s Forehead ran for two series on BBC Radio 4 from 1971-72, winning a Writers' Guild Award f

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Halcyon Years

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A private investigator is hired to look into a mysterious, high-profile death aboard the starship Halcyon in this fresh new science fiction masterpiece from the "mastersinger of space opera" (The Times) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Sp

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The War Of The Worlds

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When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorised by aliens in tall, armoured capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs. The machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties, and survivors are driven undergro

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Dying of the Light

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In this unforgettable space opera, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin presents a chilling vision of eternal night—a volatile world where cultures clash, codes of honor do not exist, and the hunter and the hunted are often int

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