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Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English.A woman is murdered on a train.When Miss Marple telephones her friend Lucy Eyelesbarrowand asks her to go undercover to investigate, Lucy quickly accepts the challenge!Who is the dead woman? What was the motive for her murder? And why was the body thrown from the train and later hidden at Rutherford Hall?When a second murder takes place, everyone at Rutherford Hall seems in danger, so Miss Marple sets a trap to catch the murderer.

Agatha Christie (Author), Jane Collingwood (Narrator)

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4.50 From Paddington

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English.A woman is murdered on a train.When Miss Marple telephones her friend Lucy Eyelesbarrowand asks her to go undercover to investigate, Lucy quickly accepts the challenge!Who is the dead woman? What was the motive for her murder? And why was the body thrown from the train and later hidden at Rutherford Hall?When a second murder takes place, everyone at Rutherford Hall seems in danger, so Miss Marple sets a trap to catch the murderer.

Agatha Christie (Author), Jane Collingwood (Narrator)

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A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

'This book has found a special place in my heart. It's as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it' HELEN MACDONALD, author of H IS FOR HAWK A fascinating, insightful and inspiring account of a novice beekeeper's year of keeping honeybees, which will appeal to readers of H is For Hawk and The Outrun Entering her thirties, Helen Jukes feels trapped in an urban grind of office politics and temporary addresses - disconnected, stressed. Struggling to settle into her latest job and home in Oxford, she realises she needs to effect a change if she's to create a meaningful life for herself, one that can accommodate comfort and labour and love. Then friends give her the gift of a colony of honeybees - according to folklore, bees freely given bring luck - and Helen embarks on her first full year of beekeeping. But what does it mean to 'keep' wild creatures? In learning about the bees, what can she learn of herself? And can travelling inside the hive free her outside it? As Helen grapples with her role in the delicate, awe-inspiring ecosystem of the hive, the very act of keeping seems to open up new perspectives, deepen friendships old and new, and make her world come alive. A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings is at once a fascinating exploration of the honeybee and the hive, the practices of honey-gathering and the history of our observation of bees; and a beautifully wrought meditation on responsibility and care, on vulnerability and trust, on forging bonds and breaking new ground.

Helen Jukes (Author), Jane Collingwood (Narrator)

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A Pocket Full of Rye

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English.Rex Fortescue, the boss of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his office, when he suffered a painful and sudden death. When the police checked the victim's pockets, they found grain.Miss Marple knows one of the servants in Rex Fortescue's house and comes to help solve the mystery. She soon starts to suspect that she is dealing with a case of crime by rhyme ...

Agatha Christie (Author), Jane Collingwood (Narrator)

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All The Single Ladies

Samantha Brooks' boyfriend has made a mistake: Jamie has booked himself a one-way flight to South America. Solo. But Sam isn't giving up without a fight. She hatches a plan that involves dirty tricks, plotting, and a single aim: to win him back. But by the time Jamie finally wakes up, a gorgeous new pretender has entered Sam's life. Which begs the question... does she still want him back?

Jane Costello (Author), Jane Collingwood (Narrator)

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An Experiment in Love

Carmel McBain is the only child of working-class Irish-Catholic parents. Her mother aspires to something more for her than what life in their depressed mill town has to offer. She is ambitious for her daughter, determined that she slip through England's rigid social barriers. And so, early on, she pushes Carmel, first to gain a scholarship to the local convent school, then to sit the exams for a place at London University. And Carmel does not disappoint. But success carries with it a fearful price. It sets her on a lonely journey that will take her as far as possible from where she began, uprooting her from the ties of class and place, of family and faith. Uprooting her ultimately from her own self. A coming-of-age novel, a memoir of a Catholic childhood, a piercing and witty look at social pretensions, a story of lost possibilities and girlhood betrayals: perhaps only a novelist of Hilary Mantel's enormous talents could have taken such material and shaped it into so fresh and arresting a tale.

Hilary Mantel (Author), Jane Collingwood (Narrator)

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An Experiment in Love

It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the north. Among the gossiping, flirtatious girls of Tonbridge Hall, she begins her experiments in life and love. But the year turns. The mini-skirt falls out of style and an era of concealment begins. Carmel's world darkens, and tragedy waits in the wings.

Hilary Mantel (Author), Jane Collingwood (Narrator)

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An Unlikely Spy: A Novel

“A beguiling tale of espionage.' -- Pam Jenoff, author of The Orphans Tale and The Lost Girls of Paris A twisting, sophisticated World War II novel following a spy who goes undercover as a part of MI5—in chasing the secrets of others, how much will she lose of herself? Evelyn Varley has always been ambitious and clever. As a girl, she earned a scholarship to a prestigious academy well above her parents’ means, gaining her a best friend from one of England’s wealthiest families. In 1939, with an Oxford degree in hand and war looming, Evelyn finds herself recruited into an elite MI5 counterintelligence unit. A ruthless secret society seeks an alliance with Germany and, posing as a Nazi sympathizer, Evelyn must build a case to expose their treachery. But as she is drawn deeper into layers of duplicity—perhaps of her own making—some of those closest to her become embroiled in her investigation. With Evelyn’s loyalties placed under extraordinary pressure, she’ll face an impossible choice: save her country or the people who love her. Her decision echoes for years after the war, impacting everyone who thought they knew the real Evelyn Varley. Beguiling and dark, An Unlikely Spy is a fascinating story of deception and sacrifice, based on the history of real people within the British intelligence community.

Rebecca Starford (Author), Jane Collingwood (Narrator)

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Before I Met You

Betty Dean can't wait to leave her quiet upbringing in Guernsey and begin her mission to find Clara Pickle - the mysterious beneficiary in her grandmother's will. She arrives in grungy, 1990s Soho, ready for whatever life has to throw at her. Or so she thinks... As Betty searches for Clara, she is taken on a journey through her grandmother, Arlette's, extraordinary life in 1920s bohemian London, uncovering a tale of love, loss and heartbreak amidst the hedonistic world of the Bright Young People. Will the secrets of Arlette's past help Betty on her path to happiness?

Lisa Jewell (Author), Jane Collingwood (Narrator)

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Deadly Election

In the first century AD, during Domitian’s reign, Flavia Albia is ready for a short break from her family. So, in July, she returns to Rome, leaving them at their place on the coast. Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, who is now retired as private informer, has taken up her father’s former profession, and it’s time to get back to work. The first order of business, however, is the corpse found in a chest sent as part of a large lot to be sold by the Falco family auction house. As the senior family representative in Rome, it falls upon Albia to find out who, why, and by whom. At the same time, her potential suitor, Faustus, comes looking for help with his friend Sextus’ political campaign. Between the auction business and Roman politics, it’s not quite clear which is more underhanded. Both, however, are tied together by the mysterious body in the chest, and if Albia isn’t able to solve that mystery, it won’t be the only body to drop. “In ancient Rome, elections can be murder…Flavia’s third case benefits from the heroine’s combination of archness and vulnerability and the author’s deep knowledge of the period.”—Kirkus Reviews

Lindsey Davis (Author), Jane Collingwood (Narrator)

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Do No Harm: A skilled surgeon makes the best murderer . . .

'Thriller fans will be in heaven' Louise Candlish 'Chilling and perfectly paced, one to put on the very top of your TBR!' Sarah Pearse 'Brilliant. Relentlessly tense. This thriller gave me palpitations' Lesley Kara 'A corker of a thriller' Kate Riordan MY CHILD HAS BEEN TAKEN. AND I'VE BEEN GIVEN A CHOICE . . . KILL A PATIENT ON THE OPERATING TABLE OR LOSE MY SON FOREVER. The man lies on the table in front of me. As a surgeon, it's my job to save him. As a mother, I know I must kill him. You might think that I'm a monster. But there really is only one choice. I must get away with murder. Or I will never see my son again. I'VE SAVED MANY LIVES. WOULD YOU TRUST ME WITH YOURS? DON'T MISS THE HEART-STOPPING THRILLER OF 2022 #DONOHARM 'With proper breath-taking, pulse-racing levels of tension. Tracking heart surgeon Anna as she grapples with an impossible moral dilemma, I almost felt I was going under the knife myself' LOUISE CANDLISH 'When you pick up a book to read the first page and then can't put it down . . . ' SARAH PEARSE 'Utterly gripping, addictive and brilliantly tense' KAREN HAMILTON 'Do No Harm hooked me . . . What a terrifying ride!' GILLY MACMILLAN 'With an agonising dilemma at its heart and a pace that never lets up' KATE RIORDAN 'Had me on the edge of my seat . . . Do No Harm is brilliantly thrilling' NADINE MATHESON 'Seriously terrifying, chilling and unputdownable' EMMA CURTIS 'An edge-of-your-seat, head-spinning thriller with emotion and depth woven through its heart' LAUREN NORTH 'A brilliant example of psychological crime writing at its very best' KATE RHODES 'The ultimate page turning edge-of-your-seat thriller. Loved it' NIKKI SMITH 'The most nail biting book I've read this year. . . An absolute rollercoaster, you won't be able to put it down' HOLLY SEDDON 'An absolute edge of your seat belter. I urge you to pre-order it now' Reader review 'Let me be the first one to call it: Do No Harm is going to be HUGE!' Reader review 'Probably the fastest thriller and most unrelentingly tense thriller I've read since The Chain' 4 star reader review 'Absolutely phenomenal' 5 star reader review 'Kept me hooked from the very start!' 5 star reader review 'Believe me, you'll not want to put this down' 5 star reader review 'Everything about Do No Harm was absolutely brilliant' 5 star reader review 'Had me GRIPPED!' 4 star reader review 'So full of tension and twists!' 5 star reader review 'It gripped me from page 1' Reader review

Jack Jordan (Author), Jane Collingwood, Lucy Paterson, Sarah Feathers (Narrator)

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Echo Boy

In order to stay human, Audrey has built a moat around herself; a moat of books, music and dreams. It makes her different from the echoes: the sophisticated, emotionless machines, built to resemble and work for the humans. Daniel is an echo - but he's not like the others. He has feelings he was never designed to have, and cannot explain. And when Audrey is placed in danger, he's determined to save her.

Matt Haig (Author), Jane Collingwood, Multiple Narrators, Thomas Judd, Various (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Jane Collingwood