Clare Higgins

Orlando

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Virginia Woolf
• Narrated By Clare Higgins
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Fantasy, love and an exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining story. Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to the family of her friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando's central character, a fictional embodiment of Sackville-West, changes sex from a man to a woman and lives throughout the centuries, whilst meeting historical figures of English literature.

Other People's Children

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Joanna Trollope
• Narrated By Clare Higgins

When a man and a woman get married, things can get complicated. When they have children from previous marriages, "complicated" can become the understatement of the year.

Doctor Who: The Lost Flame: 12th Doctor Audio Original

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 16 mins)
• By George Mann, Cavan Scott
• Narrated By Clare Higgins

An original audio story featuring the 12th Doctor, as played on TV by Peter Capaldi.

Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Georgia Byng
• Narrated By Clare Higgins
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Molly Moon returns...and bumps into earlier versions of herself, four of them, to be exact, all kidnapped and transported back in time to nineteenth-century India by Molly's most fearsome nemesis yet, an insane maharaja. Molly foiled his plans once already, by stopping Primo Cell from becoming president of the United States. This time around, the maharaja is determined to alter the course of history. The only thing standing in his way is Molly and her brave pug, Petula.

Molly Moon Stops the World

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Georgia Byng
• Narrated By Clare Higgins
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Molly Moon is back, and this time she's hypnotizing her way to the Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Along with Rocky and Petula the pug, Molly is tracking the sinister activities of American billionaire Primo Cell, who wants to become president and take over the world. He has all the Hollywood celebrities in his power, but Molly Moon has an amazing power of her own, which even she doesn't know about.

The Best of Friends

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Joanna Trollope
• Narrated By Clare Higgins

Gina and Laurence had been the best of friends ever since they were teenagers. They had never been in love - just friends.

Now, Gina is married to the exquisitely tasteful Fergus and lives in stylish perfection at High Place. Laurence is married to down-to-earth Hilary and they have spent their married life turning The Bee House into both home and hotel. Then, with elegant disdain, Fergus announces he is leaving Gina and their teenage daughter. As Gina's misery ricochets through the two homes, she turns for emotional support to Laurence, her dearest friend....

Talking It Over

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Julian Barnes
• Narrated By Steven Pacey, Alex Jennings, Clare Higgins
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Introducing Stuart, Gillian and Oliver. One by one they take their turn to speak straight out to the camera - and give their side of a contemporary love triangle. What begins as a comedy of misunderstanding slowly darkens and deepens into a compelling exploration of the quagmires of the heart.

Doctor Who: The Gods of Winter: A 12th Doctor Audio Original

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 17 mins)
• By James Goss
• Narrated By Clare Higgins

Clare Higgins reads this exciting original adventure featuring the 12th Doctor and Clara, as played by Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman in the BBC TV series. On a remote human colony planet, under the cover of a protective dome, young Diana Winter summons the TARDIS. Brought to her side by the power of a mysterious calling card, the Doctor and Clara are given one of their unlikeliest assignments yet. Yet it is one that will have far-reaching consequences.

How to Be Good

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Nick Hornby
• Narrated By Clare Higgins

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of How to be Good by Nick Hornby, read by Claire Higgins. According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway.

Love, etc

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Julian Barnes
• Narrated By Steven Pacey, Alex Jennings, Clare Higgins

In Talking It Over, Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole her away. In Love, etc, Julian Barnes revisits Stuart, Gillian, and Oliver, using the same intimate technique of allowing the characters to speak directly to the listener, to whisper their secrets, to argue for their version of the truth… Love, etc is a compelling exploration of contemporary love and its betrayals.

The Ideal Bride

• ABRIDGED (4 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Stephanie Laurens
• Narrated By Clare Higgins

Michael Anstruther-Wetherby is a man destined for power. Except that Michael, for all his political skill and intelligence, lacks the most important element of success: a wife.

Laceys of Liverpool

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Maureen Lee
• Narrated By Clare Higgins

Pretty Alice Lacey couldn't be more different from her sister-in-law; bitter, ambitious Cora. Alice is happily married to John Lacey, Cora to his hapless younger brother, Billy. Both women give birth to sons on one chaotic night in war-torn Liverpool, but Cora's jealousy and resentment prompt her to swap her puny baby for Alice's beautiful son...

Dancing in the Dark

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Maureen Lee
• Narrated By Clare Higgins

Millie Cameron is furious when she finds herself obliged to sort through the belongings of her aunt Flo, who has died recently. She hardly knew her aunt, and besides, she has her own career to think of.

Young, pretty, full of confidence - or so she likes to pretend - she wants nothing to do with a dull spinster aunt whom her family refuses to talk about. But when she arrives at Flo’s basement flat, Millie’s interest is awakened.

The Girl from Barefoot House

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Maureen Lee
• Narrated By Clare Higgins
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

For Josie Flynn, the war was just the start of a journey that began in heartbreak when she was sent to live with her aunt and uncle. But the dark shadow that her uncle cast over her life is lightened by the bubbly Lily, who lives along the street and becomes her life-long friend. But Josie has itchy feet, and it is in New York that she falls in love with Jack Coltrane.

Thrush Green

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Miss Read
• Narrated By Clare Higgins

It's the May Day holiday, and a fair has come to the village of Thrush Green. The residents of Thrush Green all have their own views about the fair. For young Paul, just recovered from an illness, it is a joy to be allowed out to play at the fair; for Ruth, who returned to the soothing tranquility of Thrush Green nursing a broken heart, the fair is a welcome distraction from her own problems. And for Dr Lovell, the fair brings an unexpected new patient.

Wilma's Wicked Spell

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Kaye Umansky
• Narrated By Clare Higgins

Wilma goes to do her work experience for her Grade Four Certificate in magic with her great-aunt Angria - who was the 13th faerie who put Sleeping Beauty to sleep for a hundred years. The spell is coming to an end in a few days, and Angria is determined to stop the prince from awakening her with a kiss. Wilma is drawn into her wicked plan, which involves going to work in the kitchens of the 12 good fairies and luring Prince Brett away from the castle.

News from Thrush Green

• ABRIDGED (4 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Miss Read
• Narrated By Clare Higgins

When old Admiral Trigg and his sister Lucy died, their house, Tullivers, stood empty for many months. Then one bright April day, some discreet onlookers saw a good-looking woman pushing her way through the nettles to the front door.

Winter in Thrush Green

• ABRIDGED (4 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Miss Read
• Narrated By Clare Higgins

The arrival of a stranger in the village of Thrush Green stirs up ripples of speculation and interest. Not only does the village find itself paying tribute to this stranger's hero (a missionary born and bred in Thrush Green) but his presence has a dramatic affect on Miss Dimity Dean's romantic prospects.

The Laments

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 11 mins)
• By George Hagen
• Narrated By Clare Higgins

Meet the Laments, the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen's exuberant debut novel.