AuthorPatrick O'Brian
NarratorGordon Griffin
SeriesGolden Ocean, Book 2
Duration12h 30m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels
PublisherIsis
VersionUnabridged
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 from Anson's squadron by fierce storms and shipwrecked off the coast of Chile.
Author: 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...
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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: 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.
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Author: Patrick O'Brian
Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Patrick Tull
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 1
Duration 16h
The first book in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series of naval adventures, in which the surgeon Stephen Maturin introduces himself to Captain Jack Aubrey by driving an elbow into his ribs during a chamber-music recital. After which inauspicious meeting they commence a firm friendship and a series of great literary voyages set against the immacu...
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Author: 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...
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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: 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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The 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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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...
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Men 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...
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