Kate C.
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Wise Child
- Doran, Book 1
- By: Monica Furlong
- Narrated by: Sarah Kempton
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story5 out of 5 stars 14
Orphaned by the death of her grandmother and her father’s disappearance, nine-year-old Wise Child is taken in by Juniper, a healer and sorceress. Soon enough, the young girl finds herself flourishing under Juniper’s care—learning about herbal lore, and even introductory magic. But just as she begins to feel at home in the Scottish village, the girl’s mother—the black witch Maeve—returns. Forced to choose between Maeve and Juniper, Wise Child has a difficult decision to make. She could stay with Juniper, or leave with Maeve and adopt a life of luxury.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A treasure and homecoming
- By Kate C. on 03-08-25
- Wise Child
- Doran, Book 1
- By: Monica Furlong
- Narrated by: Sarah Kempton
A treasure and homecoming
Reviewed: 03-08-25
I’ve read this book at least half a dozen times over many years, and this skillful narrator brought out new aspects of the book for me. Her voices for each character are subtle and just right. I will listen to this again and again. Wonderful!
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This Is Happiness
- By: Niall Williams
- Narrated by: Dermot Crowley
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,545
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,363
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,355
Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets he needs to atone for. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. As the people of Faha anticipate the endlessly procrastinated advent of the electricity, and Noel navigates his own coming-of-age and his fallings in and out of love, Christy's past gradually comes to light, casting a new glow on a small world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Poetry disguised as Prose
- By bobgreenberger on 09-26-20
- This Is Happiness
- By: Niall Williams
- Narrated by: Dermot Crowley
Wise, funny, kind, and truly great
Reviewed: 10-26-24
A wonderful, loving look at life in Ireland before modernity. Heart-building and heart-aching and one of the best books I’ve ever read. The reader, Dermot Crowley, is perfect on every score, infusing humor and understanding into every lilting line. Listening to this is a gift and worth revisiting again and again.
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We Solve Murders
- A Novel
- By: Richard Osman
- Narrated by: Nicola Walker
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,584
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,405
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,405
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s job now. Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She’s currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D’Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts . . .
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4 out of 5 stars
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Who are you?
- By Karen A. on 09-24-24
- We Solve Murders
- A Novel
- By: Richard Osman
- Narrated by: Nicola Walker
Smart and funny and marvelous
Reviewed: 10-09-24
Amazing performance by the reader - one of the very best I’ve heard over hundreds of audiobooks. Great characters, fun adventures, and Osman’s trademark humor and kindness. Exciting to think we have a new series to enjoy!
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Beowulf
- By: Seamus Heaney
- Narrated by: Seamus Heaney
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,759
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,419
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,399
New York Times best seller and Whitebread Book of the Year, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's new translation of Beowulf comes to life in this gripping audio. Heaney's performance reminds us that Beowulf, written near the turn of another millennium, was intended to be heard not read.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Why, oh, why is it abridged?
- By Tad Davis on 09-25-08
- Beowulf
- By: Seamus Heaney
- Narrated by: Seamus Heaney
Stirring and compelling
Reviewed: 04-23-24
So grateful for the opportunity to listen to Seamus read his powerful translation of this epic poem. His voice brings to our ears the music of the language and the grandeur, heroism, and high ideals of these long ago people. This recording is a treasure to rival the dragon’s golden hoard!
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Diana, Herself
- An Allegory of Awakening
- By: Martha Beck
- Narrated by: Martha Beck
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story5 out of 5 stars 39
In this exuberant allegory, best-selling memoir and self-help author Martha Beck takes listeners into the wild parts of the world and the human psyche. The story of Diana, Herself helps every listener chart a course for awakening to greater joy, adventure, and purpose.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book for every woman!
- By Ashley on 10-06-23
- Diana, Herself
- An Allegory of Awakening
- By: Martha Beck
- Narrated by: Martha Beck
Wonderful story and pure, piggy pleasure
Reviewed: 02-26-24
To hear Martha Beck narrate her own marvelous story, complete with frequent and varied porcine chortles and expressions of affection, gave me a great gift of enjoyment and inspiration. So glad I listened to this to hear her bring her characters to life. Recommended with enthusiasm!
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The Last Devil to Die
- A Thursday Murder Club Mystery, Book 4
- By: Richard Osman
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,270
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,008
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,005
Shocking news reaches them—an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters—as well as heartache close to home—Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom to trust.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story which needs the original narrator
- By Jane on 09-22-23
- The Last Devil to Die
- A Thursday Murder Club Mystery, Book 4
- By: Richard Osman
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
Can they all be my favorite?
Reviewed: 10-10-23
I look forward to each book in this series with eagerness and excitement, and each time after listening I think that perhaps, this one was the best. I anticipate that will go on happening. Fiona’s narration is superb and her handling of accents is astonishingly good. And the time spent with the gang at Cooper’s Chase brings joy, interest, laughter, and even a few tears. I love these characters. Wonderful!
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Bright Day
- By: J. B. Priestley
- Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Gregory Dawson, a middle-aged and disillusioned writer, is holed up in a Cornish hotel working on a film script he must finish. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance in the bar sends him back to the England of 1913, when he was just 18 and longed to enter the seemingly magical world of the glamorous Alington family and its three lovely daughters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pleasure and Meaning
- By Kate C. on 04-18-23
- Bright Day
- By: J. B. Priestley
- Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
Pleasure and Meaning
Reviewed: 04-18-23
A wonderful book, masterfully read. Narrator deftly manages many accents and characters, ages and genders. A great story but also full of ideas and feeling. My favorite book for a long while and one that will stay with me.
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Oliver Twist
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Jonathan Pryce
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,342
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,222
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,221
When young orphan, Oliver Twist, is sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker, he leaves behind years of miserable servitude and mistreatment at an English workhouse. Hoping to move on to better things, he decides to escape his new, equally dreary surroundings and head to London. It is there that the novel unravels as Oliver meets a host of larger-than-life characters, including The Artful Dodger, a high-ranking member of a juvenile pickpocketing gang, and their elderly leader, Fagin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narration
- By victor j chriest on 12-27-20
- Oliver Twist
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Jonathan Pryce
Wonderful Performance of a Classic
Reviewed: 02-01-22
Another winner in Audible’s Dickens collection. Jonathan Pryce was the right man for the book, and his performance of every character - and Fagin, especially - is masterful, and brought the story to life for me. I read it many years ago but now, having listened to this marvelous production, feel I’ve really read it at last. Thank you, Audible, for this excellent collection.
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The Pickwick Papers
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens, Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear, Neil Gaiman
- Length: 32 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 269
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 268
When Samuel Pickwick decides to establish and preside over a travelling society, he unknowingly brings together three of the oddest men in all of London: Tracy Tupman, the loveless self-professed ladies’ man, Augustus Snodgrass, the poet who’s never put pen to paper, and Nathaniel Winkle, the endlessly clumsy sportsman. The ‘Pickwickians’ set off in search of new adventures outside of the confines of the city. Along with a host of other colourful Dickensian characters such as Mr Pickwick’s love-struck landlady, Mrs Bardell, and his trusty sidekick, Sam Weller.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Done with gusto
- By Tad Davis on 12-26-19
- The Pickwick Papers
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens, Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear, Neil Gaiman
Superlative, masterful, delightful performance of a great book
Reviewed: 01-20-22
This performance is certainly in the top three and may be the very best I’ve had the good fortune to experience. Everything about this production is first rate - Kinnear’s astonishing voice acting, Neil Gaiman’s inviting and helpful preface, the sound quality, and of course Dickens’ marvelous, funny, affecting book. I’m very grateful to Audible for many wonderful days of listening to The Pickwick Papers. I’m also grateful to other Audible listeners for their reviews which led me to select this production of the many on offer. I can only say: they were right!
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Everyday Ubuntu
- Living Better Together, the African Way
- By: Mungi Ngomane
- Narrated by: Nontombi Naomi Tutu
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story5 out of 5 stars 54
Ubuntu is a Xhosa word originating from a South African philosophy that encapsulates all our aspirations about how to live life well, together. It is the belief in a universal human bond: I am only because you are. And it means that if you are able to see everyone as fully human, connected to you by their humanity, you will never be able to treat others as disposable or without worth. By embracing the philosophy of ubuntu and living it out in daily life it’s possible to overcome division and be stronger together in a world where the wise build bridges, not walls.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring
- By Jack on 02-22-23
- Everyday Ubuntu
- Living Better Together, the African Way
- By: Mungi Ngomane
- Narrated by: Nontombi Naomi Tutu
Beautiful, necessary, heartfelt
Reviewed: 02-14-21
A potent call to kindness and community. The stories told in the course of sharing the lessons of Ubuntu will both break and open your heart. Ubuntu was an entirely new concept to me, but its tenets are universal, sensible, and vital to review and renew from time to time. So glad I stumbled upon this wonderful book which has reminded me that we flourish in connection with other people and left me filled with hope. It’s also read beautifully and a pleasure to listen to.
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