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Author: Margaret Irwin
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Author Margaret Irwin
Narrator Phyllida Nash
Duration 9h 15m
In July, 1553, sibling rivalry has never been more tumultuous than between the daughters of King Henry VIII. Queen Mary Tudor has just won possession of the throne, but her half-sister - the Princess Elizabeth - holds the hearts of the people. Knowing this, Mary banishes her to a country retreat, determined to keep her as far away from court life a...
View BookAuthor: Iain Gale
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Author Iain Gale
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 9h 31m
Meet Lieutenant Jack Steel - gentleman, soldier, hero. Upper Bavaria, 1704. The British army, victorious, unbeaten since the Peninsula war, stands proudly to attention, ready to fight for honour and glory. Their enemy is Louis XIV of France, a megalomaniac intent on possessing all Europe. Among this proud group of men stands Lieutenant Jack Steel,...
View BookAuthor: Colleen Mccullogh
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Author Colleen Mccullogh
Narrator Sneha Mathan
Duration 27h 2m
Mark Antony, famous warrior and legendary lover, expected that he would be Julius Caesar's successor. But after Caesar's murder it was his 18-year old nephew, Octavian, who was named in the will. No one, least of all Antony, expected him to last but his youth and slight frame concealed a remarkable determination and a clear strategic sense. Antony...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator William Gaminara
SeriesSharpe, Book 20
Duration 9h 27m
Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814. The invasion of France is under way, and the British Navy has called upon the services of Major Richard Sharpe. He and a small force of Riflemen are to capture a fortress and secure a landing on the French coast. It is to be one of the most dangerous missions of his career. Through the incompetence of a...
View BookAuthor: Peter Ackroyd
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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 BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Phyllida Nash
Duration 12h 20m
The three great-nephews of cantankerous Mr Penicuik know better than to ignore his summons, especially when it concerns the bestowal of his fortune. The wily old gentleman has hatched a typically freakish plan for his stepdaughter's future and his own amusement: his fortune will be Kitty's dowry. But while the beaux are scrambling for her hand, Kit...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Kent
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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.
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 1: Kydd
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 1
Duration 10h
Thomas Kydd, a wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang to be a part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the realities of shipboard life fast. Despite all that he goes through in danger of tempest and battle, he comes to admire the skills and courage of the seamen. CONTAINS ST...
View BookAuthor: Anita Amirrezvani
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Author Anita Amirrezvani
Narrator Julia Barrie
Duration 14h 5m
Set in seventeenth-century Iran, this audiobook is the haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. A village girl's dreams of marriage end with the death of her father. Cast on the mercy of relatives in fabled Isfahan, she and her mother are reduced to servitude until she reveals a talent for designing carpets - an invalua...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Kent
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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...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator William Gaminara
SeriesSharpe, Book 16
Duration 11h 7m
Christmas 1812. Newly promoted, Major Richard Sharpe leads his small force into the biting cold of the winter mountains. His task is to rescue a group of well-born women held hostage by a rabble of deserters. And one of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill, Sharpe's most implacable enemy. But the rescue is the least of Sharpe's problems. He must fac...
View BookAuthor: Kylie Fitzpatrick
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Author Kylie Fitzpatrick
Narrator Phyllida Nash
Duration 12h 20m
Amen Corner, London, 1864. Orphan Sarah O'Reilly has disguised herself as a boy so that she can work in the offices of Septimus Harding's newspaper. She meets Lily Korechnya, a wealthy widow who writes a column for the paper under a pseudonym. Lily has been enlisted by Lady Cynthia Herbert to help catalogue her magnificent jewel collection. She is...
View BookAuthor: Paul Waters
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Author Paul Waters
Narrator Paul Blake
Duration 13h 8m
At the end of the third century BC, as republican Rome's long war with Carthage was at last drawing to a close, it was already threatened by a new enemy, Philip, the tyrant king of Macedon in the east. Thus begins Rome's long involvement with Greek civilisation, from which it is to learn so much... Into this turbulent world emerges our Roman hero,...
View BookElizabeth and the Prince of Spain
Author: Margaret Irwin
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Author Margaret Irwin
Narrator Phyllida Nash
Duration 9h 24m
Philip of Spain, unwilling bridegroom of Queen Mary, has been warned about the Queen's half-sister, the young Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn. According to all reports, she is a heretic, a rebel and a potential enemy with 'a spirit full of enchantment'. But Philip is not deterred, and Elizabeth must advance warily towards her destiny, running th...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 8: The Admiral's Daughter
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 8
Duration 11h 12m
1803. Tensions are escalating again between England and France. While the Royal Navy launches reconnaissance, rescue missions and spies on the continent, French privateer ships are lurking in English waters poised to strike at British trade. Smugglers, perilous storms and a treacherous coastline all threaten to overcome HMS Teazer as her men fight...
View BookAuthor: Antoinette May
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Author Antoinette May
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 15h 32m
Claudia has a privileged life. Niece of Rome's favoured warrior, she lives in luxury, surrounded by her family and tended by slaves. Gifted with second sight, her dreams tell her many things, from which gladiator will win the battle in the Coliseum to the secret enemies who plot against the Emperor. When Claudia falls deeply in love with a charisma...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 10h 13m
When Gervase Frant, Seventh Earl of St Erth, returns at last from Waterloo to his family seat at Stanyon, he enjoys a less than welcome homecoming. Only Theo, a cousin even quieter than himself, is there to greet him - and when he meets his stepmother and young half-brother he detects open disappointment that he survived the wars. The dangers of th...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator William Gaminara
SeriesSharpe, Book 21
Duration 9h 40m
It is 1814. After a long and exhausting series of battles, the British and Spanish armies are pushing into south-western France from Spain. Rumours abound that Napoleon has surrendered, been murdered, or fled. But before the French are finally defeated, and Sharpe can lay down his sword, one of the bloodiest conflicts of war must be fought: the bat...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Kent
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 10h 43m
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 supp...
View BookAuthor: Douglas Jackson
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Author Douglas Jackson
Narrator Russell Boulter
Duration 11h 20m
Gaius Julius Augustus Germanicus, the third Roman Emperor, is better known by another name: Caligula, a name synonymous with decadence, cruelty and madness. Rufus, a young slave, grows up far from the corruption of the imperial court. His master is a trainer of animals for the gladiatorial arena, and Rufus discovers that he has a natural talent for...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator William Gaminara
SeriesSharpe, Book 12
Duration 8h 38m
It was a hard winter. For Richard Sharpe, it was the worst he could remember. He had lost his command to a wealthy man. And from England comes his oldest enemy - the ruthless Hakeswill - utterly determined to ruin Sharpe.
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