AuthorAlexander Kent
NarratorMichael Jayston
Duration10h 43m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels
PublisherChivers
VersionUnabridged
June 1793, Gibraltar. The gathering might of revolutionary France prepares to engulf Europe in another bloody war. As in the past, Britain will stand or fall by the fighting power of her fleet. For Richard Bolitho, the renewal of hostilities means a fresh command and the chance of action after long months of inactivity. However, his mission to support Lord Hood in the monarchist-inspired occupation had gone awry: Bolitho and the crew of the Hyperion are trapped by the French near a dry Mediterranean island.
Author: Alexander Kent
Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 11h 14m
March 1784. It is a time of peace and most of Her Majesty's fleet is laid up. The frigate Undine is despatched to India and beyond, and even though the war with France is temporarily over, the far side of the world promises plenty of action for Undine's captain, Richard Bolitho. Bolitho has to face alone the new threats of European nations greedy f...
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Author: Vanora Bennett
Author Vanora Bennett
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 19h 27m
Fourteenth century England. The country is in turmoil. The King is in debt to the City, and the old order had broken down. The King's mistress, Alice Perrers, becomes the virtual ruler of the country. Dislaked and despised by the Black Prince, her strong connections to the merchants maker her a natural ally for the King's ambitious second son, John...
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Author: Alexander Kent
Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 11h 39m
It is October 1789, in New South Wales. Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who hopes to be ordered home to England. Instead, he is despatched on a mission to the islands of the Great South Se...
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Author: Pam Jenoff
Author Pam Jenoff
Narrator Various
Duration 11h 42m
From the internationally best-selling author Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris is an emotional and powerful journey through friendship and betrayal during the Second World War, inspired by true events. 1940s. With the world at war, Eleanor Trigg leads a mysterious ring of female secret agents in London. Twelve of these women are sent to aid the r...
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Author: Hilary Mantel
Author Hilary Mantel
Narrator Ben Miles
Duration 37h 55m
The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. 'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?' England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains ar...
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Author: Alexander Kent
Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 10h 4m
The year is 1777 when the revolution in America has erupted into a full-scale war. The navy's main task is to prevent military supplies from reaching Washington's armies, and to destroy the fast-growing fleet of French and American privateers. As a junior officer, Bolitho is often bewildered by swiftly changing events, but in a ship of the line, un...
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Ellindale Saga Book 4: One Perfect Family
Author: Anna Jacobs
Author Anna Jacobs
Narrator Anne Dover
SeriesEllindale Saga, Book 4
Duration 10h 46m
Lancashire, 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money, he can finally realise his dream of settling down in the beautiful village of Ellindale. Tam knows he can be impulsive - his nickname isn't Crazy Tam for nothing! - but this time he is determined not to be ruled by his big heart and hot head. Yet somehow, within just one day...
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Author: Alexander Kent
Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 11h 35m
This novel introduces Adam, nephew of Richard Bolitho, and captain of the newly-commissioned frigate 'Unrivalled'. The story follows Adam and his crew as they take on pirates and slavers in the aftermath of victory at Waterloo.
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Author: Isabella Hammad
Author Isabella Hammad
Narrator Fiona Button
Duration 20h 31m
As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinian dreamer sets out to find himself. Midhat Kamal picks his way across a fractured world, from the shifting politics of the Middle East to the dinner tables of Montpellier and a newly tumultuous Paris. He discovers that everything is fragile: love turn...
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Author: Alexander Kent
Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 10h 52m
March 1814. Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England from several months' rigorous patrolling off the North American coast. War with the United States has not yet ended, but news of Napoleon's defeat and abdication has stunned a navy and a nation bled by years of European conflict. Victory has been the impossible dream and now, for Bolitho, a...
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