Audiobooks narrated by Juanita McMahon

"When Gerta’s friend Kay is stolen away by the mysterious Snow Queen, it’s up to Gerta to find him. Her journey will take her through a dangerous land of snow and witchcraft, accompanied only by a bandit and a talking raven. Can she win her friend’s release, or will following her heart take her to unexpected places? A strange, sly retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s 'Snow Queen,' by T. Kingfisher, author of 'Bryony and Roses' and 'The Seventh Bride.'"

T. Kingfisher (Author), Juanita McMahon (Narrator)

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Where I Found You: A deeply moving and unforgettable story of motherhood, hope and second chances

"When hope feels out of reach, can a stranger help you find it? One woman is afraid of her future Maggie Carter knows every inch of Victoria Park-the scents, the seasons, the paths that lead her to the quiet bench by the lake. It's the only place she feels safe. Because outside the park, with her first baby on the way, Maggie is terrified she won't be enough. She's losing her confidence, her footing, and-slowly-herself. One woman is haunted by her past Elsa is also expecting her first child, but she faces motherhood alone. Old wounds and secrets from sixty years ago claw at her, filling her with a fear she can't outrun. She is convinced her baby will be taken from her... and the past refuses to let her breathe. A friendship that can change everything When Maggie and Elsa meet by chance on a park bench, something shifts. Strangers at first, they begin sharing the fears they've hidden from everyone else, the hopes, the shame, the heartbreak. Through their conversations, they may finally see themselves clearly... and discover that healing often begins with being truly seen. But can they help each other in time, before fear, memory, and circumstance pull them under?"

Amanda Brooke (Author), Juanita McMahon (Narrator)

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House of Splinters: Cool down in the heatwave with a truly chilling ghost story

"Bloomsbury presents House of Splinters by Laura Purcell, read by Juanita McMahon. 'An enormous treat . . . beautifully vivid, claustrophobic and macabre . . . a masterful page-turner' Bridget Collins, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Binding 'Laura Purcell really is a master of the unsettling ghost story' Jen Williams Not every house is a home... Belinda Bainbridge has spent her life in the shadow of her anxious mother, so when her father-in-law dies at The Bridge, his remote ancestral seat, she is secretly thrilled. His death means she, her husband Wilfred and their children can relocate and finally begin to create their own happy home together: born a merchant’s daughter, she will now be lady of the manor. But their new home quickly proves far from ideal. The garden is a wilderness, the estate is struggling financially, there are whispers about the mysterious death of a servant many years before while their young son, Freddy, seems unusually fixated on the strange wooden figures – so-called 'silent companions' – that were once owned by his ancestors. When Wilfred's charismatic brother, Nathan, arrives unexpectedly from abroad, bringing a very different account of the family’s past, Belinda begins to question what her husband has told her. What really lies behind the sad history of the house? And are Belinda’s children truly safe here? The outstanding new haunted house story from Sunday Times bestseller and multi award winner, Laura Purcell, who is credited for reigniting readers' passion for classic gothic tales for a new audience. P 2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC C 2025 Laura Purcell"

Laura Purcell (Author), Juanita McMahon (Narrator)

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A Vintage Friendship

"Another warm and uplifting book from the author of The Kicking the Bucket List ‘Feelgood’ Good Housekeeping Has their friendship stood the test of time? The Class of ’72, Sara, Ally, Jo and Mitch were as close as sisters, then life intervened and the four friends lost touch. Now in her sixties, Sara has realized – late in the day – that those women were the best friends she’d ever had and is determined to get the gang back together. Ally is facing a huge turning point in her life and Jo, after years of being chief cook and bottle washer, needs to put herself first after a wake-up call. None of them know what happened to Mitch. The coolest and most enigmatic of the foursome doesn’t want to be found and it seems that even after all these years, the women are still keeping a few secrets from each other…"

Cathy Hopkins (Author), Gabrielle Glaister, Hannah Donnelon, Juanita McMahon, Sophie Henderson (Narrator)

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Wakenhyrst

"Bloomsbury presents Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver, read by Juanita McMahon. A Times Best Book of 2019. 'Paver is one of Britain's modern greats. This sinister, gothic chiller shows why' BIG ISSUE, Books of the Year 2019. 'Something has been let loose...' In Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father. When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are awakened. Maud's battle has begun. She must survive a world haunted by witchcraft, the age-old legends of her beloved fen – and the even more nightmarish demons of her father's past. Spanning five centuries, Wakenhyrst is a darkly gothic thriller about murderous obsession and one girl's longing to fly free by the bestselling author of Dark Matter and Thin Air. Wakenhyrst is an outstanding new piece of story-telling, a tale of mystery and imagination laced with terror. It is a masterwork in the modern gothic tradition that ranges from Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker to Neil Gaiman and Sarah Perry. C 2020 Michelle Paver P 2020 Head of Zeus"

Michelle Paver (Author), Juanita McMahon (Narrator)

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War Crimes for the Home

"In War Crimes For The Home we meet an old and forgetful Gloria, living in an old folks home called Sea View. But when she met Ron, he was a handsome American pilot, and she was working in a munitions factory in Bristol during the Blitz. Now, fifty years on, Gloria starts to remember what happened..."

Liz Jensen (Author), Juanita McMahon (Narrator)

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Lovers and Liars

"Sisters Sophie and Jess have grown up knowing that a few little lies are necessary. After all, everybody does it, don't they? But when Sophie discovers her father's secret, and Jess falls in love with the charismatic Jake, Sophie faces a difficult choice. Should she keep quiet, or tear her family apart with the truth? And if she tells, who will pay the ultimate price?"

Nina Bell (Author), Juanita McMahon (Narrator)

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Persons Unknown

"THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A brutal murder. A detective with no one left to trust. ‘[Steiner] solidified the promise of last year’s debut, Missing, Presumed, with another hyper-realistic police procedural’ Guardian: Books of the Year 2017 A YOUNG MAN MURDERED A city banker bleeds to death yards from a Cambridgeshire police headquarters. A DETECTIVE OUT OF HER DEPTH DI Manon Bradshaw’s world is turned upside down when the victim turns out to be closer to her than she could have guessed. WHO SHOULD SHE BELIEVE? When even her trusted colleagues turn their backs on her, it’s time to contemplate the unthinkable: are those she holds dear capable of murder? Manon Bradshaw is back. ––––––––––––––––––––––- 'Steiner has a quirky, evocative prose style that is often very funny and her novels are highly entertaining and full of memorable, well-rounded characters' Sunday Express 'Bradshaw is an engaging heroine, full of self-doubt and contradiction, but whose caustic wit gleams through the grim murder inquiry' Daily Mail 'Winning prose, sympathetic characters and an appreciation of life’s joys as keen as a knowledge of its dangers' Wall Street Journal ‘An ingeniously and extravagantly plotted, multi-voiced thrillride … wise and witty … beautifully written’ Irish Times ‘I loved it … Persons Unknown is like walking on quicksand, for reader and detective alike' Val McDermid 'A smart and funny rumination on motherhood' New York Times 'Strikingly modern…It is refreshing to see a detective grappling with real life dilemmas but they never get in the way of the plot, which is clever and original. A series to watch from a confident writer who draws even minor characters with care and sympathy' Sunday Times ‘By turns tense and tender, gripping and moving, and always beautifully written. I didn’t read this book so much as live it: DI Manon Bradshaw is so convincingly human that I often wonder what she’s up to now’ Erin Kelly ‘The best new crime series in years’ Sarah Perry"

Susie Steiner (Author), Juanita McMahon (Narrator)

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Peculiar Ground

"‘One of the best novels of the year so far’ The Times A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘Unlike anything I’ve read. Haunting and huge, and funny and sensuous. It’s wonderful’ Tessa Hadley ‘I just enjoyed it so very much’ Philip Pullman It is the 17th century and a wall is being built around a great house. Wychwood is an enclosed world, its ornamental lakes and majestic avenues planned by Mr Norris, landscape-maker. A world where everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war, where dissidents shelter in the forest, lovers linger in secret gardens, and migrants, fleeing the plague, are turned away from the gate. Three centuries later, another wall goes up overnight, dividing Berlin, while at Wychwood, over one hot, languorous weekend, erotic entanglements are shadowed by news of historic change. A little girl, Nell, observes all. Nell grows up and Wychwood is invaded. There is a pop festival by the lake, a TV crew in the dining room and a Great Storm brewing. As the Berlin wall comes down, a fatwa signals a different ideological faultline and a refugee seeks safety in Wychwood. From the multi-award-winning author of The Pike comes a breathtakingly ambitious, beautiful and timely novel about game keepers and witches, agitators and aristocrats, about young love and the pathos of aging, and about how those who wall others out risk finding themselves walled in."

Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Author), Adjoa Andoh, Anna Bentinck, Jake Curran, Juanita McMahon, Leighton Pugh, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Peter Noble, Rachel Atkins (Narrator)

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The Kicking the Bucket List

"Mum always knows best… The stunning debut for fans of Celia Imrie and Dawn French. Meet the daughters of Iris Parker. Dee; sensitive and big-hearted; Rose uptight and controlled and Fleur the reckless free spirit. At the reading of their mother’s will, the three estranged women are aghast to discover that their inheritance comes with very tricky strings attached. If they are to inherit her wealth, they must spend a series of weekends together over the course of a year and carry out their mother’s ‘bucket list’. But one year doesn’t seem like nearly enough time for them to move past the decades-old layers of squabbles and misunderstandings. Can they grow up for once and see that Iris’s bucket list was about so much more than money…"

Cathy Hopkins (Author), Anne Dover, Gabrielle Glaister, Juanita McMahon (Narrator)

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In Bitter Chill

"You can't bury the truth forever… Derbyshire, January 1978. Two girls go missing: Rachel Jones returns, Sophie Jenkins is never found. Thirty years later, Sophie Jenkins's mother commits suicide. Rachel Jones has tried to put the past behind her. But news of the suicide re-opens old wounds and Rachel realises that the only way she can have a future is to finally discover what really happened all those years ago. This is a story about loss and family secrets, and how often the very darkest secrets are those that are closest to you."

Sarah Ward (Author), Juanita McMahon (Narrator)

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Daughter of Catalonia

"In war-torn France, Spaniard Luis and Elise elope to live in a small village in Catalonia. Little do they know that war will rip them apart, sending Luis to his death in the Resistance. Years later their daughter, Madeleine, returns to France to seek out her roots and the truth of her parents’ story. But her arrival in the Catalan village unleashes more than she had bargained for as the shocking truth behind her father’s death are uncovered."

Jane MacKenzie (Author), Juanita McMahon (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Juanita McMahon

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