Emilia Fox
2) Melmoth
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Twenty years ago Helen Franklin did something she cannot forgive herself for, and she has spent every day since barricading herself against its memory. But her sheltered life is about to change. A strange manuscript has come into her possession. It is filled with testimonies from the darkest chapters of human history, which all record sightings of a tall, silent woman in black, with unblinking eyes and bleeding feet: Melmoth, the loneliest being in...
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25th August 1957. The island of Spinalonga closes its leper colony. And a moment of violence has devastating consequences. When time stops dead for Maria Petrakis and her sister, Anna, two families splinter apart and, for the people of Plaka, the closure of Spinalonga is forever coloured with tragedy. In the aftermath, the question of how to resume life looms large. Stigma and scandal need to be confronted and somehow, for those impacted, a future...
4) Maestra
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2016
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By day, Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she's a hostess in one of the capital's unsavoury bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game. She's learned to dress, speak and act in the interests of men. She's learned to be a good girl. But after uncovering a dark secret at the heart of the art world, Judith is fired and her dreams of a better life are torn apart. So she...
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Desperate to find a new place to live, Emma stumbles across One Folgate Street. It is an architectural masterpiece: a minimalist design of pale stone, plate glass, and soaring ceilings. But the enigmatic architect who designed the house insists that she abide by a long list of exacting rules. The space is intended to transform its occupant - and it does... Since a personal tragedy, Jane needs a fresh start, and One Folgate Street seems like the rental...
6) Grasshopper
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A group of twenty-something slackers spend their nights walking the roofs of Maida Vale. On one of these walks they see a couple through an open window, a sighting with profound conseqences that reverberate through all their lives.
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Bolinda audio
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Within its four walls lay a secret that would last a lifetime. Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories,...
8) The lie tree
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2016
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Sixteen-year-old Faith uses the powers of a mysterious tree that thrives on lies to uncover the suspicious circumstances of her archaeologist father's death.
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2023
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Years ago, Juliet left a little piece of her heart in Paris - and now, separated from her husband and with her children having flown the nest, it's time to get it back! She has a lot to do in just thirty days but whatever happens, Juliet knows that Paris is always a good idea.
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Clipper Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2021
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Performed by Richard Armitage, Anthony Boyle, Emila Fox and Hugh Quarshie. HOUSEHOLD GIZMOS WITH A MIND OF THEIR OWN. THE WRONG KIND OF COLD CALLS. AND THE CREEPING SUSPICION THAT NONE OF THIS IS REAL. Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments - stories to be listened to as the evenings draw in, and the days are haunted by uncanny technologies and the absurd horrors of modern life. "Masterly.remarkable." GUARDIAN...
11) Mum's list
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Studio Soho
Pub. Date
2017
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Drama adaptation of the bestselling book by St John Greene about the terminal illness of his wife and the things she left behind to help her husband and sons make the best of life without her. Starring Rafe Spall and Emilia Fox, the story is one of loss but also of family, devotion and love. Kate (Fox) is a loving wife to Singe (Spall) and a caring mother to their two sons. But their happy family life is damaged by the revelation that Kate has incurable...