AuthorPeter Ackroyd
NarratorDerek Jacobi
Duration11h 10m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherChivers
VersionUnabridged
London in the 18th century is a city as squalid and superstitious as it is elegant and enlightened, where a brilliant architect is commissioned to build several new churches. Two hundred and fifty years later in the sprawling metropolis of London the legacy of the past lives on, as CID Detective Hawksmoor investigates a series of murders that have occurred on the sites of 18th century churches.
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 6h 51m
Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the German archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test, and soon she is tieing canvas sacking to her legs so that she can kneel on the hard ground in the trench, removing the earth methodically, identifying salient points, lifting out amphorae and br...
View BookMaggie Hope Series Book 7: The King's Justice
Author: Susan Elia MacNeal
Author Susan Elia MacNeal
Narrator Susan Duerden
SeriesMaggie Hope, Book 9
Duration 10h 51m
Maggie Hope started out as Winston Churchill's secretary, but now she's a secret agent-and the only one who can figure out how the missing violin ties into a series of horrifying murders. London, December 1943. As the Russian army repels German forces from Stalingrad, Maggie Hope takes a much-needed break from spying to defuse bombs in London. But...
View BookShakespeare the Biography: Volume 1
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 3h
Shakespeare was born in Stratford on 23rd April 1564 and died in the same English country town on the same date in 1616. This audiobook is the first in a series of four and explores the birth and youth of Shakespeare, his family fortunes and misfortunes and his emergence onto the London theatre scene.
View BookTony Hill and Carol Jordan Book 9: Splinter the Silence
Author: Val Mcdermid
Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesTony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 9
Duration 12h 47m
When psychological profiler Tony Hill comes across a series of suicides among women tormented by vicious online predators, he begins to wonder if there is more to these tragedies than meets the eye. Could it be murder? But what kind of serial killer wants his crimes to stay hidden? Tony and DCI Carol Jordan begin the hunt for the most dangerous and...
View BookLondon the Biography: Street Life and People
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 3h
This social history audiobook vividly describes the everyday activities and concerns of Londoners. Particular areas of interest include customs, food, drink, entertainment, sex, crime and punishment.
View BookEscape From Earth: Voyages Through Time
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Paul Medlicott
Duration 3h 24m
Only 60 years after first taking to the skies, humankind's endless curiosity sent our species blazing into space. But how? Why? What have we found? Where will we explore next? The answers aren't just 'out there' - they're also in here. Prepare for blast-off, you are about to escape from Earth.
View BookDr Alex Gregory Book 1: Imposter
Author: Lj Ross
Author Lj Ross
Narrator Hugh Dancy
SeriesAlex Gregory, Book 1
Duration 7h 6m
From the International Number 1 Bestselling Author of the DCI Ryan Mysteries. Impostor is the first instalment in Ross' brand new Dr Alex Gregory series, narrated by actor Hugh Dancy. After an elite criminal profiling unit is shut down amid a storm of scandal and mismanagement, only one person emerges unscathed. Forensic psychiatrist Doctor Alexand...
View BookPatrik Hedstrom Book 10: The Girl In the Woods
Author: Camilla Lackberg
Author Camilla Lackberg
Narrator Robin Bowerman
SeriesPatrik Hedstrom, Book 10
Duration 21h 41m
A missing child When a four-year-old girl disappears in the woods outside Fj„llbacka, people are horror-struck. Thirty years ago, a child went missing from the same spot, and was later discovered, murdered. A murder Back then, two teenage girls were found guilty of the killing. Could one of them be the culprit this time? Detective Patrik Heds...
View BookTony Hill and Carol Jordan Book 11: How the Dead Speak
Author: Val Mcdermid
Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesTony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 11
Duration 12h 16m
After an explosive case that forced Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to reassess everything they thought they knew about right and wrong, both are dealing with the fallout in their own separate ways. While Tony must pay the price for his actions, Carol is conducting investigations into suspected miscarriages of justice. But when a shocking discovery is m...
View BookAuthor: Peter Ackroyd
Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 10h 7m
Poet, forger and genius Thomas Chatterton died in 1770, aged only eighteen. His death was thought to be suicide: but what really happened? Two hundred years later, Charles Wychwood and Harriet Scope become obsessed with decoding the clues found in an eighteenth-century manuscript. Their investigation raises some intriguing questions. CONTAINS ADULT...
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