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Mapp and Lucia

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 40 mins)
• By E.F. Benson
• Narrated By Prunella Scales

The Trials of Rumpole

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 7 mins)
• By John Mortimer
• Narrated By Frederick Davidson

Horace Rumpole—who never prosecutes, whose fame rests on an infinite knowledge of blood and typewriters, whose court scenes are proverbial, whose home is ruled by Mrs. Rumpole (“She Who Must Be Obeyed”)—is back on the defense, as irreverent, as iconoclastic, as claret-swilling, poetry-spouting, impudent, witty, and cynical as ever.

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Jasper Fforde
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

It's Easter in Reading, a bad time for eggs, and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. All the evidence points to his ex-wife, who has conveniently shot herself.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
• Narrated By Paul Baymer, Susan Dewidan, Roselyn Landor, and others

Why we think it’s a great listen: The best book club you’ve never heard of – but will be eager to join, courtesy of a full cast of true characters. January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb....

Mary Poppins

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 46 mins)
• By P. L. Travers
• Narrated By Sophie Thompson
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Mary Poppins is like no other nanny the four Banks children have ever seen. She whirls into their home and "spit-spot", she works her inimitable brand of magic to make even the bland seem extraordinary. An endless source of fascinating adventure, she slides up the banister, produces an array of tricks from her seemingly empty carpetbag, and ensures the Banks - lives will never be the same.