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Clare Corbett's silvery, refined tone and light, quick delivery suit this best known of English novelist Rose Macaulay's books. Published in 1956, it begins, "'Take my camel, dear,'" said my Aunt Dot as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass." As an eclectic group, including Aunt Dot, an Anglican clergyman, Father Chantry-Pigg, and the narrator, Laurie,... Read More

With an evident love of language and a deft ear for biting humor, Clare Corbett has a field day narrating this delightfully inventive 1918 social satire, which savages eugenics, education, bureaucracy, and gender roles, among other hot topics of the early twentieth century. The premise is simple: To avoid the disaster of another Great War (WWI) the "Ministry of Brains" is... Read More

In this satirical audiobook, a full cast flips the script on privilege, race, and gender roles in an upper-class neighborhood called Malcolm X Estates. The narrators are deliberately over-the-top as they capture the many laugh-out-loud situations that take place when a white family moves into the Black neighborhood. Clare Brown, author and one of the key narrators, portrays... Read More

Clare Corbett's sympathetic performance of Rose Macaulay's 1950 novel about the costs of war highlights its mix of the satiric and the heartfelt. When 17-year-old Barbary is sent to live with her conventional father in London after growing up semi-wild in southern France with her mother, she finds adventure and comfort among the vagabonds and criminals who inhabit London's... Read More

Bert Seymour and Clare Corbett narrate this delightful historical fantasy, set in the mid-eighteenth century. Abel, a London watchmaker who creates fabulous automata, has disappeared. His son, Zachary, endowed with second sight, is being raised by his eccentric Aunt Franny. Many years later, Zachary sets off to rescue him from a sultan in Constantinople. Seymour, the primary... Read More

History consists of events conducted mostly by men and recorded by men. In her clear, uncompromising voice, Philippa Gregory turns the tables, taking listeners through 900 years of abuse and betrayals, yearnings and near-miraculous accomplishments of women. Frequent interjections by Clare Corbett, Tania Rodrigues, Nneka Okoye, James Goode, and Joe Jameson provide voices for the... Read More

The rich voices and intelligent deliveries of seven talented narrators make it possible to keep this novel's many characters straight. After a huge lottery win, Nicole and Tom build their dream house on an estate in Gloucestershire. The state-of-the-art glass barn has everything, including glitches. When Tom is found dead in their swimming pool, Nicole is devastated. Was Tom's... Read More

Filled with unexpected twists and a cast of well-developed characters, this audiobook is an engaging listen. Twenty years ago, four friends traveling on the Devil's Corridor in southwest England get into a car accident. Three go missing afterward and are never found. The survivor, Olivia, has remained out of the spotlight since then. In the present day, journalist Jenna... Read More

British narrators Clare Corbett and Kristin Atherton shine in this multilayered thriller. Eve, portrayed by Corbett, is an audiobook narrator who is struggling to get her life on track after a divorce and other losses. Phillipa Roberts, bestselling author of the Tower mystery series, has been missing for nearly a year. When the manuscript of her tenth Tower book surfaces and... Read More

British narrator Clare Corbett enchants listeners with Clare Pooley's quick wit and charm in a warm story about strangers on a commuter train who are brought together by an accident. As the group become friends, one of them, Iona, suddenly disappears from the scene, and the drama begins. Corbett dazzles as Iona Iverson, a nosy advice columnist and a force of nature in this... Read More

With its outstanding cast of narrators, this audiobook immediately draws listeners into the messy lives of the inhabitants of an elegant-looking Paris apartment building. Narrator Sofia Zervudachi masterfully portrays the edgy Jess, who is on a mission to uncover what has happened to her half brother, Ben, who has mysteriously disappeared. Residents of the apartment building... Read More

Narrator Clare Corbett flawlessly creates the accents and setting of Lenchester, England, while introducing Detective Chief Inspector Whitney Walker and her polar opposite, psychologist Georgina Cavendish. Listeners will be intrigued by Corbett's portrayal of Walker, who is compassionate and skilled at questioning both timid witnesses and hardened suspects. The experienced... Read More

Clare Corbett masterfully narrates the third and final volume in the Revenger Series. The Ness sisters remain on the run for crimes they didn't commit. Ancient technology, curious alien races, and a strange mystery permeating the galaxy beset the sisters as they wage war for the truth. Corbett's crystal-clear diction and variety of accents complement the story's breakneck... Read More

Author Sally Rigby and narrator Claire Corbett combine their skills to bring listeners the third in the thrilling Cavendish & Walker series. A serial killer known as the "Carriage Killer" murders four random victims on the local rail network before moving to another town. DCI Whitney Walker has figured out his kill pattern, yet even with the police on alert, the murders... Read More

Clare Corbett delivers a dynamic narration of this first installment in the Dragon's Assassin series. Desperate to excel at assassin school despite her disability, Carmen takes an unusual chance and befriends a deadly ally. The story, told from Carmen's point of view, includes a lot of dialogue with pivotal characters who are on a quest to find a traitor and end the war on... Read More

Spoiler alert: Angelica Chastain, heroine of THE PENMAKER'S WIFE, may be among the most diabolical, manipulative women in recent fiction. Narrator Clare Corbett delivers Angelica's convoluted story of love, murder, and betrayal with all the precise period diction of the 1880s in place. She inhabits several points of view, making each devastatingly real. It's hard to like a... Read More

This extraordinary audiobook, performed by a quartet of talented narrators, will have listeners devouring its fabulist story while wishing it would never end. The one-of-a-kind Dead Papa Toothwort, a mythological creature existing for centuries in the woods outside an English village, is brought to menacing life by David Timson's deep, raspy timbre and deliberate phrasing.... Read More

In this second installment, Clare Corbett reprises her dynamic narration of the Revenger series opener. Sisters Adrana and Fura Ness struggle to reconcile who they've become in the aftermath of their ordeal with the notorious criminal Bosa Sennen. Alongside a hardy and well-characterized crew, they chart a course through hostile intergalactic space toward redemption and... Read More

Author Windo and narrator Clare Corbett emphasize the complicated emotional journeys in this disjointed story. Together they craft a compelling human drama within a technological dystopia. Tom and his pregnant wife, Kate, inhabit a world governed by the Feed, a highly evolved social media platform implanted directly into the brain. When the Feed is violently destroyed,... Read More

Narrator Clare Corbett meets the challenges of this nonfiction account of the Gilded Age phenomenon of American women marrying into British nobility. More than the story of a handful of cross-Atlantic relationships, the audiobook explores the salient differences between American and British culture in terms of women's issues, class systems, and finances. Corbett clearly... Read More

In this audiobook of psychological suspense, Emily meets Adam, her perfect man, and things go swimmingly until she meets his diabolical mother, Pammie. Narrator Clare Corbett gives each character in this engrossing thriller a genuine personality and unique voice. Adam growls at Emily for making a joke about his mother's taste in music and becomes enraged whenever she mentions... Read More

Clare Corbett narrates this thought-provoking story of a world in which men, women--anyone--can have a baby. With FullLife's baby pouch, couples share the joy of carrying and nurturing their babies, resulting in unprecedented equality and freedom. That's the party line, at least, but, as Eva and Piotr discover, unsettling developments suggest that all is not right at FullLife.... Read More

Hollywood stalwarts Stanley Tucci and Toby Jones get behind the microphone and bring their versatile talents to this story of a holy man whom long lines of pilgrims desperately want to meet but few come to understand. In honest and soothing tones, Jones, as "Old Man Joe," skillfully draws out the hopes and fears of a number of troubled travelers, played by an excellent ensemble... Read More

While on duty as a physician in a British hospital emergency room, Dr. Chris Reynolds attempts to save a man, but he dies of mysterious causes, and no one knows who he is. Narrating from the first-person point of view, Claire Corbett becomes Chris, revealing her troubled thoughts as she investigates the death and as she struggles with depression and a fragile relationship with... Read More

Narrator Clare Corbett portrays the Wilde sisters, whose cousin Audrey's disappearance hangs over their visit to their aunt and uncle's country manor in 1959. Corbett delineates each sister: ethereal Flora, obstreperous Pam, earnest Dot, and inhibited Margot, the sister who was closest to Audrey. Emilia Fox brings us forward in time; the manor is now home to Jessie and Will... Read More