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Author: Hall Martha Kelly
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Author Hall Martha Kelly
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Duration 17h 30m
New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939-and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth dis...
View BookAuthor: Julian Fellowes
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Author Julian Fellowes
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 15h 47m
On the evening of 15 June 1815, the great and the good of British Society have gathered in Brussels at what is to become one of the most tragic parties in history - the Duchess of Richmond's ball. For this is the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, and many of the handsome young men attending the ball will find themselves, the very next day, on the batt...
View BookAuthor: Philippa Gregory
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Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator Davina Porter
Duration 17h 15m
Now I can be the queen that my mother intended me to be . . . the queen I was born to be. 1558. After years of waiting, Princess Elizabeth accedes to the throne of England. But the country is divided, the restoration of the Protestant faith ignites opposition from the church and beyond, and court remains a treacherous place. Many believe that Eliza...
View BookAuthor: Fiona Davis
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Author Fiona Davis
Narrator Saskia Maarleveld
Duration 11h 47m
After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she'd make of herself. But when a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house The Dakota, leads to a job offer, her world is suddenly awash in possibility-no mean f...
View BookAuthor: Yaa Gyasi
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Author Yaa Gyasi
Narrator Dominic Hoffman
Duration 13h 11m
Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem, spa...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Thomas Judd
Duration 10h 35m
In the heart of Elizabethan England, Richard Shakespeare dreams of a glittering career in one of the London playhouses, a world dominated by his older brother, William. But he is a penniless actor, making ends meet through a combination of a beautiful face, petty theft and a silver tongue. Increasingly estranged from his brother as William's star r...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator David Collins
Duration 15h 8m
When Brigade-Major Harry Smith met the beautiful Juana Mar¡a, an instant spark formed between the two fiery, energetic souls. The two fell deeply in love with one another from the first moment and the Spanish bride accompanied him throughout all his campaigns, where she rode freely among the troops. The intensity of their marriage is made all the m...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 11h 7m
After participating in the Jacobite Rising of 1745, Robin and Prudence, brother and sister, become engaged in a swashbuckling, romantic adventure. Our hero and heroine must cross-dress and switch genders if they are to escape prosecution-a humorous move that allows Heyer to explore the manners and language affectations of the period as the two romp...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Sarah Woodward
Duration 11h 34m
Resourceful, adventurous and utterly indefatigable, Sophy is hardly the mild-mannered girl that the Rivenhalls expect when they agree to take her in. Kind-hearted Aunt Lizzy is shocked; stern Cousin Charles and his humourless fianc‚e Eugenia are disapproving. With her inimitable mixture of exuberance and grace Sophy soon sets about endearing hersel...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Julian Rhind-Tutt
Duration 11h 39m
When the dashing Jack Carstares is unfairly accused of cheating at cards, he leaves the country in disgrace. Returning some years later disguised as a highwayman, his reappearance heralds a dramatic chain of events that includes a Duke, a damsel, a duel and not one, but two kidnappings. Written when she was just seventeen, The Black Mothwas Heyer's...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Phyllida Nash
Duration 10h 47m
Perhaps the most deeply cherished novel among Heyer fans, Arabella is the story of a poor girl who captures the heart of a handsome and wealthy bachelor. When Arabella first arrives in London, she has only one mission: to snare a rich husband. She thus pretends to be a rich heiress and soon finds herself pursued by the most eligible bachelors in th...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Laura Paton
Duration 8h 49m
Fiery, strong-willed Deb Grantham, who presides over a gaming house with her aunt, is hardly the perfect wife for the young and naive Lord Mablethorpe. His lordship's family are scandalised that he proposes to marry one of 'faro's daughters', and his cousin-the proud, wealthy Max Ravenscar-decides to take the matter in hand. Ravenscar always gets h...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Georgina Sutton
Duration 8h 25m
The accomplished Corinthian Sir Richard Wyndham is wealthy, sophisticated, handsome and supremely bored. Tired of his aristocratic family constantly pressuring him to get married, he determines to run away after meeting the delightful, unconventional heroine Penelope Creed. Penelope, literally, falls into his life late one night as she hangs from t...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Nicholas Rowe
Duration 11h 7m
When Sylvester, the Duke of Salford, first meets Phoebe Marlow, he finds her dull and insipid. She finds him insufferably arrogant. But when a series of unforeseen events leads them to be stranded together in a lonely country inn, they are both forced to reassess their hastily formed opinions, and begin a new-found liking and respect for each other...
View BookAuthor: Philippa Gregory
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Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator Yolanda Kettle
Duration 9h 13m
1553. King Edward is on his deathbed, and the future of the Tudor dynasty swings perilously. Forced out of Spain by the Inquisition, Hannah Green arrives in a volatile kingdom. She is identified as a seer and sworn into the service of Robert Dudley, the son of King Edward's protector and a key player at court. Her task: to keep watch on Princess Ma...
View BookAuthor: Gower Imogen Hermes
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Author Gower Imogen Hermes
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 17h 28m
One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. One of his captains is waiting eagerly on the step. He has sold Jonah's ship for what appears to be a mermaid. As gossip spreads through the docks, coffee shops, parlours and brothels, everyone wants to see Mr Hancock's marvel. Its arrival spins him...
View BookAuthor: Tracy Chevalier
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Author Tracy Chevalier
Narrator Hattie Morahan
Duration 9h 16m
In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye... From the moment she's struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is different. Her discovery of strange fossilized creatures in the cliffs of Lyme Regis sets the world alight. Mary must face powerful prejudice from a m...
View BookAuthor: Ben Kane
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Author Ben Kane
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 16h 41m
When a new empire rises, and old one must fall After 16 years of bloody war against Rome, Hannibal Barca is on the verge of defeat. On the plains of Zama, Felix and his brother Antonius stand in the formidable Roman legions, ready to deliver the decisive blow. Victory will establish Rome as the preeminent power in the ancient world. But in northern...
View BookAuthor: Tracy Chevalier
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Author Tracy Chevalier
Narrator Laurel Lefkow
Duration 8h 47m
Honor Bright is a sheltered Quaker who has rarely ventured out of 1850s Dorset when she impulsively emigrates to America. Opposed to the slavery that defines and divides the country, she finds her principles tested to the limit when a runaway slave appears at the farm of her new family. In this tough, unsentimental place, where whisky bottles sit a...
View BookAuthor: Tracy Chevalier
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Author Tracy Chevalier
Narrator Matheson Eve
Duration 8h
One cold January morning, two young sets of eyes... One pair belongs to smartly dressed Lavinia Waterhouse, whose mother clings to the traditional values she sees slipping away; the other to Maude Coleman, whose mother longs to escape the grip of Victorian society. Thrust together by the girls' friendship, these two very different families embark o...
View BookAuthor: Anthony Doerr
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Author Anthony Doerr
Narrator Julie Teal
Duration 17h
Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a miniature version of their neighbourhood so she can memorise it. But when the Nazis invade, they flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan destined to labour in the mines, until he discovers a knack for engineering. As Europe is engulfed by war and lives collide unpr...
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