Listen to New Full Audiobooks in Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

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Title: Fear Fi Fo Fum

Author: Gill Kirk

Narrator: Gill Kirk

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 18 minutes

Release date: September 17, 2018

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Fear Fi Fo Fum is a story of brilliant brains over bullying braun, of wit and wisdom over wicked war-some-ness. When the Irish giant Finn McCool hears that an even bigger giant is coming to turn him into sausages, Finn panics. Luckily, his very wise and calm wife comes up with the strongest cunning plan you ever heard... Suitable for age 5+

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Title: Once...Tales, Myths and Legends of Faerie

Author: Ronel Janse Van Vuuren

Narrator: Roshina Ratnam

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Release date: September 14, 2018

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Damsels in distress, curses, echoes of faery tales, and tragic love affairs swirl together in 16 stories found in a dragon's lair by a curious half-fae. Unexpected changes to reality cause more than one damsel to turn into a strong, independent woman who takes charge of her own life. A collection of short stories about Faerie and the fae that live in the human realm. A few of the stories have won competitions, and all of them have enchanted listeners. Learn their secrets and enter the realm of the fae.... This audiobook has a bonus short story.

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Title: Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

Author: Nikita Gill

Narrator: Nikita Gill

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Release date: September 11, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women. Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses; girls who need rescuing; and men who take all the glory. But in this rousing new prose and poetry collection, Nikita Gill gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover. Through her gorgeous reimagining of fairytale classics and spellbinding original tales, she dismantles the old-fashioned tropes that have been ingrained in our minds. In this book, gone are the docile women and male saviors. Instead, lines blur between heroes and villains. You will meet fearless princesses, a new kind of wolf lurking in the concrete jungle, and an independent Gretel who can bring down monsters on her own. Complete with beautifully hand-drawn illustrations by Gill herself, Fierce Fairytales is an empowering collection of poems and stories for a new generation.

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Title: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A Novel

Author: Imogen Hermes Gowar

Narrator: Juliet Stevenson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Release date: September 11, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 9

Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction “Wonderful… completely transporting.”  —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles ''Historical fiction at its finest, combining myth and legend with the brutal realities of the past. . . . Comparisons will be drawn to the works of contemporary authors Sarah Waters and Michael Faber . . . but The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock has more in common with the novels of Dickens and Austen.''  —Irish Times In 1780s London, a prosperous merchant finds his quiet life upended when he unexpectedly receives a most unusual creature—and meets a most extraordinary woman—in this much-lauded, atmospheric debut that examines our capacity for wonder, obsession, and desire with all the magnetism, originality, and literary magic of The Essex Serpent. One September evening in 1785, Jonah Hancock hears an urgent knocking on his front door near the docks of London. The captain of one of Jonah’s trading vessels is waiting eagerly on the front step, bearing shocking news. On a voyage to the Far East, he sold the Jonah’s ship for something rare and far more precious: a mermaid. Jonah is stunned—the object the captain presents him is brown and wizened, as small as an infant, with vicious teeth and claws, and a torso that ends in the tail of a fish. It is also dead. As gossip spreads through the docks, coffee shops, parlors and brothels, all of London is curious to see this marvel in Jonah Hancock’s possession. Thrust from his ordinary existence, somber Jonah finds himself moving from the city’s seedy underbelly to the finest drawing rooms of high society. At an opulent party, he makes the acquaintance of the coquettish Angelica Neal, the most desirable woman he has ever laid eyes on—and a shrewd courtesan of great accomplishment. This meeting sparks a perilous liaison that steers both their lives onto a dangerous new course as they come to realize that priceless things often come at the greatest cost. Imogen Hermes Gowar, Britain’s most-heralded new literary talent, makes her debut with this spellbinding novel of a merchant, a mermaid, and a madam—an unforgettable confection that explores obsession, wonder, and the deepest desires of the heart with bawdy wit, intrigue, and a touch of magic.

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Title: The Silence of the Girls

Author: Pat Barker

Narrator: Kristin Atherton, Michael Fox

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Release date: August 30, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 29

Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 10

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker, read by Kristin Atherton and Michael Fox. A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY From the Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the International DUBLIN Literary Award There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot . . . 'Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard 'Chilling, powerful, audacious' The Times Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is slave to Achilles, the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story?

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Title: Under the Pendulum Sun

Author: Jeannette Ng

Narrator: Emma Lysy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Release date: August 28, 2018

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Victorian missionaries travel into the heart of the newly discovered lands of the Fae, in a stunningly different fantasy that mixes Crimson Peak with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Catherine Helstone’s brother, Laon, has disappeared in Arcadia, legendary land of the magical fae. Desperate for news of him, she makes the perilous journey, but once there, she finds herself alone and isolated in the sinister house of Gethsemane. At last there comes news: her beloved brother is riding to be reunited with her soon—but the Queen of the Fae and her insane court are hard on his heels.

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Title: Ahab's Return: or, The Last Voyage

Author: Jeffrey Ford

Narrator: Charles Constant

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Release date: August 28, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

A bold and intriguing fabulist novel that reimagines two of the most legendary characters in American literature—Captain Ahab and Ishmael of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick—from the critically acclaimed Edgar and World Fantasy award-winning author of The Girl in the Glass and The Shadow Year. At the end of a long journey, Captain Ahab returns to the mainland to confront the true author of the novel Moby-Dick, his former shipmate, Ishmael. For Ahab was not pulled into the ocean’s depths by a harpoon line, and the greatly exaggerated rumors of his untimely death have caused him grievous harm—after hearing about Ahab’s demise, his wife and child left Nantucket for New York, and now Ahab is on a desperate quest to find them. Ahab’s pursuit leads him to The Gorgon’s Mirror, the sensationalist tabloid newspaper that employed Ishmael as a copy editor while he wrote the harrowing story of the ill-fated Pequod. In the penny press’s office, Ahab meets George Harrow, who makes a deal with the captain: the newspaperman will help Ahab navigate the city in exchange for the exclusive story of his salvation from the mouth of the great white whale. But their investigation—like Ahab’s own story—will take unexpected, dangerous, and ultimately tragic turns. Told with wisdom, suspense, a modicum of dry humor and horror, and a vigorous stretching of the truth, Ahab’s Return charts an inventive and intriguing voyage involving one of the most memorable characters in classic literature, and pays homage to one of the greatest novels ever written.

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Title: The Butterfly

Author: Manuel Rose

Narrator: Manuel Rose & Melissa Rose

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 15 minutes

Release date: August 18, 2018

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

5-year-old Laqesha and her parents visit a family member at a country home in Lodi, New Jersey. On that sleepy summer afternoon of their arrival, Laqesha encounters a beautiful and mysterious butterfly that shows her an enchanting place she never knew could exist. A childhood dream then metamorphoses into something of a strange curiosity when Laqesha becomes a big part of “Mr. Butterfly’s” life in more ways than she could ever imagine…Find out what happens in this intriguing story! Fully dramatized audio book!

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Title: Don't Eat Me

Series: #13 of Dr. Siri Paiboun Mysteries

Author: Colin Cotterill

Narrator: Clive Chafer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Release date: August 14, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Between getting into a tangle with a corrupt local judge, and discovering a disturbing black-market business, Dr. Siri and his friend Inspector Phosy have their hands full in the thirteenth installment of Colin Cotterill's quirky, critically acclaimed series. Dr. Siri Paiboun, the ex-national coroner of Laos, may have more experience dissecting bodies than making art, but when he manages to smuggle a fancy movie camera into the country he devises a plan to shoot a Lao adaptation of War and Peace with his friend Civilai. The only problem? The Ministry of Culture must approve the script before they can get rolling. That and they can't figure out how to turn on the camera. Meanwhile, the skeleton of a woman has appeared under the Anusawari Arch in the middle of the night. Siri puts his directorial debut on hold and assists his friend, the newly promoted Senior Police Inspector Phosy Vongvichai, with the ensuing investigation. Though the death of the unknown woman seems to be recent, the flesh on her corpse has been picked off in places as if something-or someone-has been gnawing on the bones. The plot Phosy soon uncovers involves much more than single set of skeletal remains.

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Title: Flights: Nobel Prize and Booker Prize Winner

Author: Olga Tokarczuk

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Release date: August 14, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by 'A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald' (Annie Proulx) 'A magnificent writer.' — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time 'A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex.' — Washington Post From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.