Paula Wilcox has narrated 6 audiobooks on Listento.it by 7 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.9★ across 50 ratings. The most-rated is The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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A Booker finalist and Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winner, David Mitchell was called “prodigiously daring and imaginative” by Time and “a genius” by the New York Times Book Review. The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland. But Jacob’s original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city’s powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur, until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken. The consequences will extend beyond Jacob’s worst imaginings. As one cynical colleague asks, “Who ain’t a gambler in the glorious Orient, with his very life?”
©2010 David Mitchell (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC
Three Things About Elsie
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There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing is that she's my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third thing...might take a little bit more explaining. Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light; and, if the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died 60 years ago? From the author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, this audiobook will teach you many things, but here are three of them: The fine threads of humanity will connect us all forever. There is so very much more to anyone than the worst thing they have ever done. Even the smallest life can leave the loudest echo.
©2018 Joanna Cannon (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Vivienne Westwood
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Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, cocreator of punk, global brand, and grandmother--a true living legend. Her career has successfully spanned five decades, and her work has influenced millions of people across the world. For the first and only time, Vivienne Westwood has written a personal memoir, collaborating with award-winning biographer Ian Kelly, to describe the events, people, and ideas that have shaped her extraordinary life. Told in all its glamour and glory, and with her unique voice, unexpected perspective, and passionate honesty, this is her story.
©2014 Vivienne Westwood Limited and Ian Kelly (P)2014 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
Arctic Drift
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A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming, a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia, a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war.... NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find it before events escalate out of control. Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long-ago expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one survived from that doomed mission; captain and crew perished to a man - and if Pitt and his colleague Al Giordino aren't careful, the very same fate may await them. Filled with the breathtaking suspense and audacious imagination that have become his hallmarks, this is a tour de force - further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats Clive Cussler.
©2008 Clive Cussler (P)2008 Penguin
Semi Circles: The Complete Series 1 and 2
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Paula Wilcox and David Wood star in this BBC Radio sitcom about an upwardly mobile husband and wife climbing the social ladder in suburbia. Helen and Ben have recently moved into a lovely semi-detached house in an up-and-coming area and are eager to restore their home to its original character (complete with open fireplace in the living room and milkmaid's yoke on the wall). They're also keen to host dinner parties and mix with the right sort of people - to the bafflement of their elderly neighbour, Mrs Kelly, who's lived in the neighbourhood all her life and preferred it before it filled up with middle-class incomers. In these 12 episodes, Ben and Helen join an action committee to oppose the opening of a new restaurant on their street, contemplate the attractions of the countryside and squabble over spending Christmas with Helen's mother in West Wittering. Plus, Helen flirts with feminism, Ben contemplates private education and the couple unite to fight the forces of materialism.... Written by Simon Brett, whose sitcom credits include After Henry, this improving story of life and improving times in an improving neighbourhood stars Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben. Produced by Pete Atkin. First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 1st March - 5th April 1982 (Series 1), 16th November - 21st December 1982 (Series 2). Cast: Helen - Paula Wilcox Ben - David Wood Mrs Kelly - Pat Heywood Alastair - Bruce Alexander/Tony Millan Mr Juke - Arthur English Roger - Ben Aris Mo - Penelope Nice Mr Mukerjee - Tariq Yunis Willy - Robert Longden Blythe - Bryan Coleman Perpetua - Patience Tomlinson Laura - Anita Carey Nigel - James Griffiths Linda - Jill Lidstone Kevin - Stuart Organ Julian - Mark Wing-Davey Maureen - Miranda Forbes Doctor - Robert Rietty Mr Cullingford - Michael Bilton Dick - David Gooderson Marian - Jean Trend Neil - Nick Wilton Britt - Rosalind Adams
©2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
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Exclusive to Audible! Listen to the author talk about the inspiration behind the book at the end of this recording. England, 1976. Mrs Creasy is missing, and The Avenue is alive with whispers. As the summer shimmers endlessly on, 10-year-olds Grace and Tilly decide to take matters into their own hands. And as the cul-de-sac starts giving up its secrets, the amateur detectives will find much more than they imagined....
©2015 Joanna Cannon (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers Limited