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Fear Is the Key - listen book free online

Scottish novelist Alistair MacLean never planned to become a writer. After serving in the British Royal Navy during World War II, MacLean attended Glasgow University, where he received a degree in English literature. After working briefly as a hospital porter, MacLean secured a job teaching at a secondary school just outside of Glasgow. When he entered his short story "The Dileas" in a competit... Read More

Night Without End - listen book free online

MacLean was born on 28 April 1922 in Shettleston, Glasgow. His family spoke Gaelic, and MacLean did not learn English until he was seven. Maclean's father and oldest brother both died while MacLean was still at school, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1941 the 18-year-old MacLean joined the Royal Navy, where he served on the Arctic convoys. Night Without End was first pub... Read More

The Guns of Navarone - listen book free online

Alistair Stuart MacLean was a Scottish novelist who wrote successful thrillers or adventure stories, the best known of which are perhaps The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, both having been made into successful films. He also wrote under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. While a university student, MacLean began writing short stories for extra income, winning a competition in 1954 with the mari... Read More

HMS Ulysses - listen book free online

Alistair Stuart MacLean was a Scottish novelist. He joined the Royal Navy in 1941, serving in World War II with the ranks of Ordinary Seaman, Able Seaman, and Leading Torpedo Operator. MacLean effectively translated his own experiences as a torpedo man on a convoy escort into the plot of H.M.S. Ulysses, which takes place on a British destroyer. HMS Ulysses was Alistair MacLean's debut novel. Wh... Read More

Breakheart Pass - listen book free online

Alistair Stuart MacLean was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. He was born in Glasgow but spent much of his childhood and youth in Daviot, ten miles south of Inverness. While his books might have an old-fashioned flavour MacLean was an author ahead of his time in one major way. When he recycled those components of his stories that resonated most with his read... Read More

Puppet on a Chain - listen book free online

Alistair Stuart MacLean, the son of a Scots Minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941, at the age of eighteen, he joined the Royal Navy; two and a half years spent aboard a cruiser were to give him the background for HMS Ulysses, his first novel, the outstanding documentary novel on the war at sea. He was responsible for firing torpedoes during World War II and offered his ser... Read More

Extraordinary People - listen book free online

Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. Series The Enzo Files, is set in France and is... Read More

The Critic - listen book free online

Peter May is a Scottish television screenwriter, novelist, and crime writer. He is the recipient of writing awards in Europe and America. Peter May was born in Glasgow. From an early age, he was intent on becoming a novelist but took up a career as a journalist as a way to start earning a living by writing. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials... Read More

Blacklight Blue - listen book free online

Peter May is a Scottish television screenwriter, novelist, and crime writer. He has won several awards in France. He received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy.  In 2014 Entry Island won both the Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and a CWA Dagger as the ITV Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year. Series The Enzo Files, is... Read More

Freeze Frame - listen book free online

Peter May is a Scottish television screenwriter, novelist, and crime writer. He received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy.  In 2014 Entry Island won both the Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and a CWA Dagger as the ITV Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year. Series The Enzo Files, is set in France and is centred on the... Read More

Blowback - listen book free online

Peter May is a Scottish television screenwriter, novelist, and crime writer. From an early age, he was intent on becoming a novelist but took up a career as a journalist as a way to start earning a living by writing. The series The Enzo Files tells the story of Enzo Macleod, a half-Scottish, half-Italian former forensic scientist that is forced to use his skills once again to solve old cold-cas... Read More

Cast Iron - listen book free online

Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. Series The Enzo Files, is set in France and is centred on the work of half-Italian, half-Scottish Enzo Macleod. This former forensic scientist, now working as a biology professor at a French university becomes involved in applying the latest scientific methods to solve cold cases. In the first novel of this series, Extraordinary People, Enzo is sent on... Read More

Sleep, Pale Sister - listen book free online

Joanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted Chocolat, The Testament of Loki and many other bestselling novels, plus the novella The Blue Salt Road, short stories, screenplays and cookbooks. Her books are published in more than 50 countries and have won numerous awards. The Evil Seed, Sleep, Pale Sister and Chocolat were published before she retired from teaching to become an author... Read More

Gentlemen and Players - listen book free online

Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is an English author especially known for her award-winning novel Chocolat. Since Chocolat, all of Harris's books have been UK bestsellers. She has written three more novels in the Chocolat series, continuing the adventures of Vianne Rocher. Gentlemen and Players is a dark psychological thriller, some of the themes may be partly based on Harris' experiences as a tea... Read More

The Constant Gardener - listen book free online

David John Moore Cornwell, better known by the pen name John le Carré, is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service, MI5, and the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality are le Carré's first two novels. The Constant Gardener is a 2001 novel by the author. In August of 2005, Focus Features release... Read More

The Tailor of Panama - listen book free online

John le Carré, the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, is an English author of espionage novels. Cornwell was born on 19 October 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England. From 1948 to 1949, he studied foreign languages at the University of Bern in Switzerland. In 1950, he joined the Intelligence Corps of the British Army garrisoned in Austria, working as a German language interrogator of people who c... Read More

Absolute Friends - listen book free online

John le Carré was born in Dorset in 1931 and was educated at Sherborne School and the University of Berne, before reading modern languages at Oxford University. He taught at Eton from 1956-58, then spent five years in the British Foreign Service until 1964. He started writing in 1961, and his first novel, a spy thriller, was Call for the Dead, later made into the film The Deadly Affair starring... Read More

The Secret Pilgrim - listen book free online

John le Carré, the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, is an English author of espionage novels. The Secret Pilgrim is a 1990 episodic novel. Ned is one of the British and American intelligence officers blamed for the betrayal of his country by the publisher Barley Scott Blair. Ned has been removed from the daily operation of what is called the Service and is an instructor at Sarratt, where... Read More

The Night Manager - listen book free online

David John Moore Cornwell, better known by the pen name John le Carré, is a British author of espionage novels. In 2011, he was awarded the Goethe Medal. Most of le Carré's books are spy stories set during the Cold War and portray British Intelligence agents as unheroic political functionaries aware of the moral ambiguity of their work and engaged more in psychological than physical drama. Leav... Read More

Our Game - listen book free online

David John Moore Cornwell, better known by the pen name John le Carré, is a British author of espionage novels. His novels emphasise the fallibility of Western democracy and of the secret services protecting it, often implying the possibility of East-West moral equivalence. This is a novel about how being a spy shapes you forever. It’s about the aftermath and what sacrificing your true identity... Read More