AuthorPatrick O'Brian
NarratorGraham Roberts
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 17
Duration15h
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels
PublisherIsis
VersionUnabridged
Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion which will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as an intelligence agent. The seventeenth book in the Aubrey-Maturin series.
Author: Michel Houellebecq
Author Michel Houellebecq
Narrator John Sackville
Duration 8h 10m
Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional relationship with a younger woman. When he discovers her ongoing infidelity, he decides to abandon his life in Paris and return to the Normandy countryside of his youth. There he contemplate...
View BookAuthor: Patrick O'Brian
Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Graham Roberts
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 14
Duration 13h 25m
In this audiobook Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape, but after a stay in Batavia and a change of ship, they are caught up on a chase in fiercely tidal waters and then embroiled in much more insidious conflicts on the terrify...
View BookAuthor: Patrick O'Brian
Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Graham Roberts
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 20
Duration 10h 35m
Napoleon's hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level Admiral. He and Maturin have - at last - set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. The twentieth title in the Aubrey-Maturin series.
View BookAuthor: Rosella Postorino
Author Rosella Postorino
Narrator Kristen Atherton
Duration 10h 51m
East Prussia, 1943. Hitler hides away in the Wolfsshanze - his hidden headquarters. The tide is turning in the war, and his enemies circle ever closer. Ten women are chosen. Ten women to taste his food and protect him from poison. Twenty-six-year-old Rosa has lost everything to this war. Her parents are dead. Her husband is fighting on the front li...
View BookAuthor: Patrick O'Brian
Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Gordon Griffin
SeriesGolden Ocean, Book 2
Duration 12h 30m
Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, 'The Golden Ocean', took inspiration from Commodore Anson's ill-fated voyage around the globe in 1740. With this audiobook, O'Brian returns to this rich source to recount the adventures of two young men - midshipman Jack Byron and naive surgeon's mate Tobias Barrow - aboard the Wager, which was parted fr...
View BookAuthor: Patrick O'Brian
Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Peter Wickham
Duration 12h
This is the story of Richard Temple - prisoner of war, sometime adventurer, lover and artist - told with insight, empathy and drama by one of the world's master storytellers. Captive in a brutal German prison towards the end of World War II, Richard Temple has been stripped of everything that once defined him: pride, courage, his very identity have...
View BookAuthor: 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...
View BookAuthor: 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...
View BookMen of War & the Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Stephen Thorne
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 21
Duration 6h
At the time of Patrick O'Brian's death, he was half way through a novel that continued the Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin series. In a moment of almost felicity, Jack Aubrey has seen his illegitimate son ably discharging important duties, Sophie and his daughters are with him, and Stephen has a new love. And Jack, at last, is flying a Rear-Admiral...
View BookThe Last Kingdom Book 12: Sword of Kings
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Matt Bates
SeriesThe Last Kingdom, Book 12
Duration 13h 27m
England is in turmoil as Vikings and Saxons battle for territory. Rumours build about the fatal sickness of the King, and the country awaits an heir. A violent clash at sea forces the warrior lord Uhtred to lead his men from his Northumbrian fortress to London and plunge into the eye of the storm. For two kings claim the empty throne and a new king...
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