Try free for 30 days
-
D (A Tale of Two Worlds)
- A Modern-Day Dickensian Fable
- Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh Young
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for $21.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also picked
-
So You Had to Build a Time Machine
- By: Jason Offutt
- Narrated by: Emily
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Skid doesn’t believe in ghosts or time travel or any of that nonsense. A circus runaway-turned-bouncer, she believes in hard work, self-defense, and good, strong coffee. Then, one day, an annoying theoretical physicist named Dave pops into the seat next to her at her least favorite Kansas City bar and disappears into thin air when she punches him (he totally deserved it).
-
Alcestis
- By: Katharine Beutner
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Greek myth, Alcestis is known as the ideal wife; she loved her husband so much that she died and went to the underworld in his place. But who was Alcestis before she was married? Other than her love for Admetus, what circumstances led her to make this ultimate sacrifice? And what happened to her in the three days she spent in the underworld?
-
The Watkins Book of English Folktales
- By: Neil Philip, Neil Gaiman - foreword
- Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
With a foreword by Neil Gaiman, this comprehensive, entertaining, and authentic collection of English folktales is perfect for fans of Madeline Miller, Philip Pullman, and the Brothers Grimm. This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Listen to these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art—when the audience believed in boggarts and hobgoblins, local witches and will-o'-the-wisps, ghosts and giants, cunning foxes and royal frogs.
-
Threadneedle
- By: Cari Thomas
- Narrated by: Bea Holland
- Length: 20 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Anna’s aunt has always warned her of the dangers of magic. Its twists. Its knots. Its deadly consequences. Now Anna counts down the days to the ceremony that will bind her magic forever. Until she meets Effie and Attis. They open her eyes to a London she never knew existed. A shop that sells memories. A secret library where the librarian feeds off words. A club where revellers lose themselves in a haze of spells. But as she is swept deeper into this world, Anna begins to wonder if her aunt was right all along.
-
-
Disappointed
- By Anonymous User on 22-08-2023
-
On Earth as It Is on Television
- By: Emily Jane
- Narrated by: Hayden Bishop
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Since long before the spaceships' fleeting presence, Blaine has been content to go along with the whims of his supermom wife and half-feral, television-addicted children. But when the kids blithely ponder skinning people to see if they're aliens, and his wife drags them all on a surprise road trip to Disney World, even steady Blaine begins to crack. Half a continent away, Heather floats in a Malibu pool and watches the massive ships hover overhead. Maybe her life is finally going to start.
-
The Shadow in the Glass
- By: JJA Harwood
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Once upon a time, Ella had wished for more than her life as a lowly maid. Now forced to work hard under the unforgiving, lecherous gaze of the man she once called stepfather, Ella’s only refuge is in the books she reads by candlelight, secreted away in the library she isn’t permitted to enter. One night, among her beloved books of far-off lands, Ella’s wishes are answered. At the stroke of midnight, a fairy godmother makes her an offer that will change her life.
-
So You Had to Build a Time Machine
- By: Jason Offutt
- Narrated by: Emily
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Skid doesn’t believe in ghosts or time travel or any of that nonsense. A circus runaway-turned-bouncer, she believes in hard work, self-defense, and good, strong coffee. Then, one day, an annoying theoretical physicist named Dave pops into the seat next to her at her least favorite Kansas City bar and disappears into thin air when she punches him (he totally deserved it).
-
Alcestis
- By: Katharine Beutner
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Greek myth, Alcestis is known as the ideal wife; she loved her husband so much that she died and went to the underworld in his place. But who was Alcestis before she was married? Other than her love for Admetus, what circumstances led her to make this ultimate sacrifice? And what happened to her in the three days she spent in the underworld?
-
The Watkins Book of English Folktales
- By: Neil Philip, Neil Gaiman - foreword
- Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
With a foreword by Neil Gaiman, this comprehensive, entertaining, and authentic collection of English folktales is perfect for fans of Madeline Miller, Philip Pullman, and the Brothers Grimm. This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Listen to these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art—when the audience believed in boggarts and hobgoblins, local witches and will-o'-the-wisps, ghosts and giants, cunning foxes and royal frogs.
-
Threadneedle
- By: Cari Thomas
- Narrated by: Bea Holland
- Length: 20 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Anna’s aunt has always warned her of the dangers of magic. Its twists. Its knots. Its deadly consequences. Now Anna counts down the days to the ceremony that will bind her magic forever. Until she meets Effie and Attis. They open her eyes to a London she never knew existed. A shop that sells memories. A secret library where the librarian feeds off words. A club where revellers lose themselves in a haze of spells. But as she is swept deeper into this world, Anna begins to wonder if her aunt was right all along.
-
-
Disappointed
- By Anonymous User on 22-08-2023
-
On Earth as It Is on Television
- By: Emily Jane
- Narrated by: Hayden Bishop
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Since long before the spaceships' fleeting presence, Blaine has been content to go along with the whims of his supermom wife and half-feral, television-addicted children. But when the kids blithely ponder skinning people to see if they're aliens, and his wife drags them all on a surprise road trip to Disney World, even steady Blaine begins to crack. Half a continent away, Heather floats in a Malibu pool and watches the massive ships hover overhead. Maybe her life is finally going to start.
-
The Shadow in the Glass
- By: JJA Harwood
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Once upon a time, Ella had wished for more than her life as a lowly maid. Now forced to work hard under the unforgiving, lecherous gaze of the man she once called stepfather, Ella’s only refuge is in the books she reads by candlelight, secreted away in the library she isn’t permitted to enter. One night, among her beloved books of far-off lands, Ella’s wishes are answered. At the stroke of midnight, a fairy godmother makes her an offer that will change her life.
-
The Symmetry of Stars
- By: Alex Myers
- Narrated by: Kit Griffiths
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Beyond the stars, two gods vie for rule of the world. One stands for Nature - the belief that everything is stamped in flesh from the start. The other, Nurture - the belief that all is potential, that the true self is coaxed out through love and living. And so, they take a bet. Each immortal selects a set of twins as their champions. The twins that prevail in contest will decide which immortal rules.
-
To Shape a Dragon's Breath
- The First Book of Nampeshiweisit
- By: Moniquill Blackgoose
- Narrated by: Charley Flyte
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the people to thrive. To them, Anequs is revered as Nampeshiweisit—a person in a unique relationship with a dragon. Unfortunately for Anequs, the Anglish conquerors of her land have different opinions.
-
The Colour of Magic
- Discworld, Book 1
- By: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Colin Morgan, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place that might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. Particularly as it’s carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules. But then, some things are the same everywhere. The Disc’s very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the world’s first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land.
-
-
Good story, but not the narrator for me
- By Shane on 13-10-2022
-
Silver Birch, Blood Moon
- By: Ellen Datlow - editor, Terri Windling - editor
- Narrated by: Jo Howarth
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The four previous volumes in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's anthology series of fairly-tales retold with a distinctively modern edge have been hailded by reviewers as "brilliant", "provocative", and "disturbing". In this triumphant new collection of original fiction, 21 of today's leading writers spin the cherished fables of childhood into glittering gold - offering magical tales for adults, as seductive as they are sophisticated.
-
A Quantum Love Story
- By: Mike Chen
- Narrated by: Patti Murin
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career—after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her…and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he’s saying.
-
Midnight at the Houdini
- By: Delilah S. Dawson
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Life has gone according to plan for Anna—she stays in the background, letting her sister, Emily, shine in the spotlight. But on Emily’s wedding night, Anna learns that her sister is moving away, abandoning her—and all their shared dreams. Devastated, Anna leaves the reception in the middle of a raging storm, taking shelter in a hotel she’s never seen before: the Houdini. The Houdini is a hotel unlike any other, with sumptuous velvet couches, marble tiled floors, secret restaurants, winding passageways, and an undercurrent of magic in the air.
-
Someone in Time
- By: Jonathan Strahan
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon, Jennifer Tyler
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This anthology is the latest collection of time-travel romance sci-fi short stories from prominent, award-winning sci-fi authors including Nina Allan, Carrie Vaughn and Seanan McGuire. Follow time travellers of all genders as they go backward and forward in time, sometimes to save the one they love, other times as a sacrifice and others simply because it's their job.
-
Survival
- Species Imperative, Book 1
- By: Julie E. Czerneda
- Narrated by: Angele Masters
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Herself a biologist, Julie E. Czerneda has earned a reputation in science fiction circles for her ability to create beautifully crafted, imaginative, yet believably realized alien races. In Survival, the first novel in her new series, Species Imperative, she draws upon this talent to build races, characters, and a universe which will draw listeners into a magnificent tale of interstellar intrigue, as an Earth scientist is caught up in a terrifying interspecies conflict.
-
The Crimson Petal and the White
- By: Michel Faber
- Narrated by: Jill Tanner
- Length: 41 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA starring Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Gillian Anderson, Richard E. Grant, Shirley Henderson and Mark Gatiss. 'Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them....' So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen, and prostitutes, meet our heroine Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she can.
-
-
Excellent tale - bizarre ending.
- By Anonymous User on 19-07-2021
-
Robots Through the Ages
- A Science Fiction Anthology
- By: Robert Silverberg, Bryan Thomas Schmidt
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Noah Michael Levine, Scott Aiello, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This anthology, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg, offers a sweeping survey of robots as depicted throughout literature. Since the Iliad—in which we are shown golden statues built by Hephaestus “with minds and wisdoms”—humans have been fascinated by the idea of artificial life. From the Argonautica to the medieval Jewish legend of the Golem and Ambrose Bierce’s tale of a chess-playing robot, the idea of what robots are—and who creates them—can be drastically different.
-
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse
- Arithmancy and Anarchy: The Thorne Chronicles Series, Book 1
- By: K. Eason
- Narrated by: Nicole Poole
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Rory Thorne is a princess with 13 fairy blessings, the most important of which is to see through flattery and platitudes. As the eldest daughter, she always imagined she'd inherit her father's throne and govern the interplanetary Thorne Consortium. Then, her father is assassinated, her mother gives birth to a son, and Rory is betrothed to the prince of a distant world. When Rory arrives in her new home, she uncovers a treacherous plot to unseat her newly betrothed and usurp his throne.
-
-
An unexpected gem
- By carrolyn on 08-06-2023
-
The Horror of Haglin House
- The Violet Thorn Mysteries 1
- By: M.R.C. Kasasian
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Home is where the horror is... Jilted thriller writer Lady Violet Thorn has withdrawn to the Suffolk market town of Montford with two servants and her leading character, the adventuress Ruby Gibson, for company. Violet’s peace is disturbed when a stranger asks her for help, claiming that a friend is being kept prisoner in her own home. Her visitor seems so afraid that Violet, despite her scepticism, is persuaded to investigate.
Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
A modern-day Dickensian fable and a celebration of friendship and humanity, by the acclaimed author of The Crimson Petal and the White.
It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from the language.
First, it vanishes from her parents' conversation at breakfast, then from the road signs outside. Soon the local dentist and the neighbour's Dalmatian are missing and even the Donkey Derby has been called off.
Though she doesn't know why, Dhikilo is summoned to the home of her old history teacher Professor Dodderfield and his faithful Labrador, Nelly Robinson. And this is where our story begins.
Set between England and the wintry land of Liminus, a world enslaved by the monstrous Gamp and populated by fearsome, enchanting creatures, D (Tale of Two Worlds) is a mesmerising tale of friendship and bravery in an uncertain world. Told with simple beauty and warmth, its celebration of moral courage and freethinking is a powerful reminder of our human capacity for strength, hope and justice.
Critic Reviews
"Faber's writing is so dizzyingly accomplished that he is able to convince you that, just sometimes, the old stories are the best ones." (Guardian)
"Glorious. A story that will be found and enjoyed and dreamed about for years to come." (Neil Gaiman)
"If ever a book like this was needed, it is now. Dhikilo is a splendid heroine for our time: She stands for kindness, honesty and humanity. Her triumph will have readers rejoicing." (Diane Setterfield)