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Lowborn
- Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
- By: Kerry Hudson
- Narrated by: Kerry Hudson
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Kerry Hudson is proudly working class but she was never proudly poor. The poverty she grew up in was all-encompassing, grinding and often dehumanising. Always on the move with her single mother, Kerry attended nine primary schools and five secondaries, living in B&Bs and council flats. She scores eight out of ten on the Adverse Childhood Experiences measure of childhood trauma. Twenty years later, Kerry’s life is unrecognisable. She’s a prize-winning novelist who has travelled the world. She has a secure home, a loving partner and access to art, music, film and books..
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Autobiography
- By bookreader on 09-20-23
- Lowborn
- Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
- By: Kerry Hudson
- Narrated by: Kerry Hudson
Autobiography
Reviewed: 09-20-23
I was hoping for more exposure of how poverty impacts others not just the author.
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Quiet Wolf
- DI Jamie Johansson, Book 5
- By: Morgan Greene
- Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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All is quiet in Kurrjakk when Jamie gets a call from an old friend. A family has seemingly vanished in the mountains near the border to the north, and the local polis have turned up nothing. When Jamie and Thorsen arrive in the quiet border town of Etterange, it doesn't take long for them to realise something isn't right. An inept twenty-six-year-old is running the polis station, there's been a spate of unreported missing persons, and there are rumblings of a strange community living out on the lake, shut off from the rest of the world.
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The writer tries to create depth, hilarity ensues
- By Amazon Customer on 10-23-24
- Quiet Wolf
- DI Jamie Johansson, Book 5
- By: Morgan Greene
- Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand
Below zero
Reviewed: 08-12-23
The narrator pronounces Swedish names excellently and does a good job but the writer gets things wrong. It’s winter in the north of Sweden and minus 10 to minus 15 but they’re taking boats across a lake? No way.
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The Stranger Times
- The Stranger Times, Book 1
- By: C. K. McDonnell
- Narrated by: Brendan McDonald
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), The Stranger Times is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable. At least that's their pitch. The reality is rather less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered and foul-mouthed husk of a man who thinks little of the publication he edits. His staff are a ragtag group of misfits. And as for the assistant editor...well, that job is a revolving door - and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis, who's got problems of her own.
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Animal abuse
- By Meep on 10-26-21
- The Stranger Times
- The Stranger Times, Book 1
- By: C. K. McDonnell
- Narrated by: Brendan McDonald
Great narrator
Reviewed: 07-14-23
Flawless narration for a challenging text
Wide variety of accents done well. A pleasure to listen to
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The Night Gate
- the Razor-Sharp Finale to the Enzo Macleod Investigations
- By: Peter May
- Narrated by: Peter Forbes
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
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In a French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than 70 years apart. Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former, forensics expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two extraordinary narratives are set in train - one historical, unfolding in the treacherous wartime years of occupied France, the other contemporary, set in the autumn of 2020 as France re-enters Covid lockdown.
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Not credible
- By bookreader on 10-16-21
- The Night Gate
- the Razor-Sharp Finale to the Enzo Macleod Investigations
- By: Peter May
- Narrated by: Peter Forbes
Not credible
Reviewed: 10-16-21
The narrator was fine but the story was not credible. Most characters were not likeable
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The Dark Mile
- The Final Book in the Flight of the Heron Trilogy
- By: D. K. Broster
- Narrated by: Peter Forbes
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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Two years have passed since the tragic events of The Gleam in the North and Ewen Cameron’s wife, Alison, is awaiting the birth of their third child in Ardroy while Ewen visits his cousin Ian Stewart at his great uncle Alexander’s home at Ivernacree. Ian is now heir to the estate, having lost his older brother, Alan, at Culloden, where they were betrayed by their archenemy, Campbell of Cairns. Ian is under pressure from his father to marry and secure an heir.
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My Favorite
- By Cranky on 02-05-22
- The Dark Mile
- The Final Book in the Flight of the Heron Trilogy
- By: D. K. Broster
- Narrated by: Peter Forbes
Too far fetched
Reviewed: 08-25-21
Warning, spoiler! The happy ending is based on the assumption that an adopted child is not the child of its adopting parents.
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Little Whispers
- By: K. L. Slater
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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Janey Markham is thrilled to be moving with her family to Buckingham Crescent, the smartest address in a desirable suburban town. Worried she’ll be excluded by the glossy local mothers, Janey is thrilled when she meets Tanya, the kind of woman she has always looked up to. Tanya takes Janey under her wing and her teenage daughter, Angel, is amazing with Janey’s little boy. As Janey and Tanya grow closer, Janey feels she can finally leave her troubled past behind.
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Ok book, but not a thriller
- By Shannypoo on 06-09-20
- Little Whispers
- By: K. L. Slater
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
Hard to like her
Reviewed: 06-19-21
The main character is hard to like and the story isn’t credible. The narration is ok.
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When Mr. Dog Bites
- By: Brian Conaghan
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Dylan Mint has Tourette's. His life is a constant battle to keep the bad stuff in - the swearing, the tics, the howling dog that seems to escape whenever he gets stressed. But a routine visit to the hospital changes everything. Overhearing a hushed conversation between the doctor and his mum, Dylan discovers that he's going to die in March. So he makes a list of things he must do before he dies: First, he wants to have real sex with gorgeous Michelle Malloy; Second, he's got to find his autistic best friend Amir a new best bud; Third, he's got to get his dad back home from the army so they can say goodbye properly.
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Unoriginal
- By bookreader on 04-24-21
- When Mr. Dog Bites
- By: Brian Conaghan
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Unoriginal
Reviewed: 04-24-21
Mostly a poor copy ofThe Dog on the Noghttime...no complaints about narration, it was fine.
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Too Scared to Tell
- Abused and alone, Oskar has no one. A true story.
- By: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Oskar's school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar's mother is abroad, and he has been left in the care of friends, but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt and with bruises on his arms, legs and body. Experienced foster carer Cathy Glass is asked to look after him, but as the weeks pass, her concerns deepen. Oskar is far too quiet for a child of six and is clearly scared of something or someone.
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Another cannot put down book!
- By sondra laco on 07-14-20
- Too Scared to Tell
- Abused and alone, Oskar has no one. A true story.
- By: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
Not credible
Reviewed: 04-16-21
I found the story hard to believe.
The child’s mother should have been helped by social services
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Once a Pilgrim
- By: James Deegan
- Narrated by: Joshua Manning
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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John Carr has recently left the SAS, after a long and distinguished career, and is now working for a Russian oligarch in the murky world of private security. But an incident from his past - in which three terrorists were brutally killed - suddenly comes back to haunt him. Tracked by a hit man out for revenge, John Carr is forced to step over the line to defend himself and his family. It's a cruel and violent world - and one he thought he'd left behind.
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Do some research, narrator!
- By bookreader on 09-10-20
- Once a Pilgrim
- By: James Deegan
- Narrated by: Joshua Manning
Do some research, narrator!
Reviewed: 09-10-20
This narrator has a lovely voice but has not done his job. It is easy enough to check how unfamiliar words are pronounced. His accents are pretty bad too.
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