Penelope Rawlins has narrated 56 audiobooks on Listento.it by 56 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 1,607 ratings. The most-rated is Knights Magi.
The Scent of Lemon Leaves
Summary
Five months pregnant and facing difficult decisions, 30-year-old Sandra leaves her job and her boyfriend to take stock of her life in her sister’s beach house on the Costa Brava. She befriends an elderly Norwegian couple, Karin and Fredrik, who provide her with stimulating company and take the place of the grandparents she never had. However, when she meets Julian, a former concentration-camp inmate who has just returned to Europe from Argentina, she discovers that all is not what it seems and finds herself involved in a perilous quest for the truth.
©2012 Clara Sanchez (P)2012 Audible Ltd
The Summer Villa
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Three women. One summer reunion. Secrets will be revealed… Villa Dolce Vita, a rambling stone house on the Amalfi Coast, sits high above the Gulf of Naples amidst dappled lemon groves and the fragrant, tumbling bougainvillea. Kim, Colette and Annie all came to the villa in need of escape and in the process forged an unlikely friendship. Now, years later, Kim has transformed the crumbling house into a luxury retreat and has invited her friends back for the summer to celebrate. But as friendships are rekindled under the Italian sun, secrets buried in the past will come to light, and not everyone is happy that the three friends are reuniting.... Each woman will have things to face up to if they are all to find true happiness and fully embrace the sweet life. An epic summer listen about food, friendship and the magic of Italy, perfect for fans of Karen Swan and Sheila O’Flanagan.
©2019 Melissa Hill (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Please Don't Stop The Music
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Jemima Hutton is determined to build a successful new life and keep her past a dark secret. Trouble is, her jewellery business looks set to fail - until enigmatic Ben Davies offers to stock her handmade belt buckles in his guitar shop and things start looking up, on all fronts. But Ben has secrets too. When Jemima finds out he used to be the front man of hugely successful Indie rock band Willow Down, she wants to know more. Why did he desert the band on their US tour? Why is he now a semi-recluse? And the curiosity is mutual - which means that her own secret is no longer safe...
©2011 Jane Lovering (P)2011 WF Howes Ltd
Night Music
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From the best-selling author of the Charlie Parker mysteries - "the finest crime series currently in existence" (The Independent) - comes a new anthology of chilling short fiction. A decade after Nocturnes first terrified and delighted listeners, John Connolly, best-selling author of 13 acclaimed thrillers featuring private investigator Charlie Parker, gives us a second volume of tales of the supernatural. From stories of the monstrous for dark winter nights to fables of fantastic libraries and haunted books, from a tender account of love after death to a frank, personal, and revealing account of the author's affection for myths of ghosts and demons, this is a collection that will surprise, delight - and terrify. Night Music: Nocturnes Volume 2 also contains two novellas: the multi-award-winning The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository and The Fractured Atlas. Night Music: Nocturnes Volume 2 is a masterly collection to be listened to with the lights on - menace has never been so seductive.
©2015 Bad Dog Books Limited (P)2015 Simon & Schuster
Public Affair, Secretly Expecting
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A RITA Award nominee and USA Today best-selling author, Heidi Rice is hailed for her ability to craft tales “that immediately catch your attention” (RT Book Reviews). In Public Affair, Secretly Expecting, Hollywood bad boy Mac Brody has no interest in attending his brother’s wedding. That is, until an unexpected encounter with bridesmaid Juno Delamare leaves his head spinning - and his heart longing for more.
©2010 Heidi Rice (P)2011 W. F. Howes
Day Four
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The chilling follow-up to The Three, Sarah Lotz's "hard to put down and vastly entertaining" debut (Stephen King). Hundreds of pleasure-seekers stream aboard The Beautiful Dreamer cruise ship for five days of cut-price fun in the Caribbean sun. On the fourth day, disaster strikes: Smoke roils out of the engine room, and the ship is stranded in the Gulf of Mexico. Soon supplies run low, a virus plagues the ship, and there are whispered rumors that the cabins on the lower decks are haunted by shadowy figures. Irritation escalates to panic, the crew loses control, factions form, and violent chaos erupts among the survivors. When, at last, the ship is spotted drifting off the coast of Key West, the world's press reports it empty. But the gloomy headlines may be covering up an even more disturbing reality. Day Four is a heart-racing tale from "a ferociously imaginative storyteller." (Lauren Beukes).
©2015 Sarah Lotz (P)2015 Hachette Audio
Star Struck
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Our memories define us don't they? And Skye Threppel lost most of hers in a car crash that stole the lives of her best friend and fiancé. It's left scars, inside and out, which have destroyed her career and her confidence. Skye hopes a trip to meet the actor she idolises will help her heal. But she bumps into mysterious Sci-fi writer Jack Whitaker first. An instant rapport soon becomes intense attraction, but Jack fears they can’t have a future if Skye ever finds out about his past... Will their memories tear them apart, or can they build new ones together?
©2011 Jane Lovering (P)2011 W F Howes Ltd
A Stitch in Time
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Sarah Yates is a thirty-something history teacher, divorced, disillusioned and desperate to have more excitement in her life. Then one evening the doorbell rings and the handsome and mysterious John Needler brings more excitement than Sarah could ever have imagined. John wants Sarah to go back in time trying to make sure people find their happy endings. The question is, will she ever be able to find hers?
©2013 Amanda James (P)2013 W F Howes Ltd
Broken Saints: Part 3
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An Adepta Sororitas audio drama. Sister Adamanthea has fallen prey to an insidious traitor. Can she escape her captor and save the day with her faith intact? Listen to it because: Get right to the heart of what makes the Adepta Sororitas such exemplary defenders of humanity in the action-packed conclusion of this three-part audio drama. The story: The architect of treachery has been revealed...and Sister Adamanthea is in his clutches. The arch-heretic believes he can bend the devout Battle Sister to his cause and will stop at nothing to turn one of the Adepta Sororitas away from the Emperor's light and into the embrace of Chaos. Adamanthea must set aside her doubts and fears and marshal her faith in the Emperor if she is to resist temptation and defeat the traitors in her midst. Written by Alec Worley.
©2019 Games Workshop Limited (P)2019 Games Workshop Limited
Hunger Makes the Wolf
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The strange planet known as Tanegawa's World is owned by TransRifts Inc, the company with the absolute monopoly on interstellar travel. Hob landed there 10 years ago, a penniless orphan left behind by a rift ship. She was taken in by Nick Ravani and quickly became a member of his mercenary biker troop, the Ghost Wolves. Ten years later, she discovers that the body of Nick's brother out in the dunes. Worse, his daughter is missing, taken by shady beings called the Weathermen. But there are greater mysteries to be discovered both about Hob and the strange planet she calls home.
©2017 Alex Wells (P)2017 Audible, Ltd.
World Engines
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Trapped on an alternate Earth, the combined crews of a crashed Russian spaceship, a British expeditionary force and a group of strays from the future must work together to survive, escape and discover what led them to this point. All are from parallel universes where small changes in history led to different realities, and the tensions between the groups are rising. But some changes were not small. The solar system has been altered, changed, shaped in the various realities, and the World Engineers - unspeakably powerful, completely unknown - are still active. Why have they populated this planet with humanity's ancestors and dinosaurs? What is on the moon of Saturn that gives off such an odd light? And even if they can be found, can they be stopped - and should they be? Malenfant, Deidra and the rest of their party must find a way off the planet, back into space, and into the many dimensions seeking the answer....
©2020 Stephen Baxter (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group
Broken Saints: Part 2
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An Adepta Sororitas audio drama. Traitors have caused a disaster on a world of faith, and it falls to Sister Adamanthea of the Adepta Sororitas to stop their rampage before it's too late. Listen to it because: Experience a pair of crises in the middle act of this audio drama - one of treachery in the streets and another very personal crisis of faith. The story: Treachery has been revealed on an Imperial world - human acolytes of the Alpha Legion have infiltrated the faithful populace and triggered a catastrophe. As the Adepta Sororitas battle the unmasked heretics, they look to their leader for guidance - but Sister Adamanthea faces trials of her own. With her faith in herself and the Emperor in doubt, she must rally herself and her warriors to combat the enemy - even as she discovers that they may be closer than she thought. Written by Alec Worley.
©2019 Games Workshop Limited (P)2019 Games Workshop Limited
The Disappearance of Emily Marr
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Arriving on the windswept Ile de Ré, Tabby Dewhurst is unable to even afford a room for the night. Overhearing a villager repeating the access code to her front door, she lets herself into the house, and so she enters the strange, hidden world of Emmie, whose sudden offer of friendship is at odds with her obsession with privacy. Tabby begins to form suspicions about Emmie, suspicions that lead her to a scandal with shattering consequences.
©2013 Louise Candlish (P)2013 W F Howes Ltd
The Truth About Angels
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The Truth about Angels is the one book you need to discover the angels within. With the world in turmoil, spiritual forces are needed more than ever before. Harnessing the angel and new age movement can help you make sense of life when it feels directionless. Angels provide us with hope and illuminate a new path forward. They are appearing with more frequency and intensity in both our daily lives and our dreams as they're wanting us to see, hear and know them because, consciously or unconsciously, we have collectively been asking for them. Rather than visiting or becoming dependent on gurus, psychics or mediums, expert Theresa Cheung is here to show you how to directly communicate with angels on your own. Divided into three parts - The Secret World of Angels, The Secret Language of Angels and Angels and Miracles - Theresa Cheung's much-anticipated book will teach you everything you need to know, including how to decode the secret language they speak to us in, how to look within - rather than externally - to find angels, as well as sharing real-life anecdotes on how angels have changed the lives of people all over the world. In The Truth about Angels Theresa will also share her own spiritual story; her book is based on decades of research, personal experience, and is underpinned by science.
©2021 Theresa Cheung (P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
The World According to Anna
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On the 20th anniversary of Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder returns with a spellbinding fable. When 15-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong with Anna; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing. Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate world of 2082. She sees her great-granddaughter, Nova, in a wasteland peopled by ragged survivors, after animals and plants have died out. The more Anna sees, the more she realises she must act to prevent the future in her visions from becoming real. But can she act quickly enough? Haunting, gripping and magical, The World According to Anna is a fable for our time. Read by Penelope Rawlins.
©2015 H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), Oslo (P)2015 Orion Publishing Group
WFH (Working From Home)
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The no bullsh*t guide to getting your work and life on track in the new flexible workplace. Virtually every industry is making lasting changes that will open doors to a more flexible working week. So how do we adjust, thrive and excel in an environment where glitchy daily video conferences are the norm? By turns fierce, funny and highly practical, Harriet Minter will show you the skills to be effective and creative during the day-to-day. Harriet breaks down how to be an inspiring and energising manager (either remotely or to a flexibly working team), how to create and thrive in a high-trust culture (on a small and large scale) and most importantly how to achieve your ambition and propel your career forwards. Packed full of hard-won tricks, tips and tools, Harriet Minter draws on her own experience as a careers coach and adviser to companies on their flexible working culture to help you bring your best self to work - from your living room.
©2021 Harriet Minter (P)2021 Quercus Editions Limited