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Thomas Kydd Series Book 21: A Sea of Gold
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 21
Duration 11h 14m
1809. After his heroic actions during the retreat to Corunna, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is the toast of London society. Here he falls in with the legendary frigate captain Lord Thomas Cochrane. So begins a relationship, professional and personal, that will be unlike any that Kydd has known: a relationship that will lead him, almost simultaneously, to...
View BookAuthor: Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Author Simon Sebag Montefiore
Narrator Tuppence Middleton
SeriesMoscow Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 19h 36m
Winter, 1916: In St Petersburg, Russia on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Young Ladies, an English governess is waiting for her young charge to be released from school. But so are the Tsar's secret police...Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolu...
View BookAuthor: Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Author Simon Sebag Montefiore
Narrator Simon Bubb
SeriesThe Moscow Trilogy, Book 3
Duration 11h 42m
Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. He joins the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a desperate mission behind enemy lines. Switching between Benya's war in the grasslands of South...
View BookAuthor: Cressida Connolly
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Author Cressida Connolly
Narrator Kristin Atherton
Duration 9h 51m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of After the Party by Cressida Connolly, read by Kristin Atherton. 'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my life...' It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister's gra...
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Barry
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Author Sebastian Barry
Narrator John Cormack
Duration 9h 17m
Barely 18-years-old, Willie Dunne leaves Dublin in 1914 to fight for the Allied cause, largely unaware of the growing political and religious tensions festering back home. Evoking the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, this powerful novel underlines the cruelty and sadness of war and the divided loyalties...
View BookThe Lymond Chronicles Book 5: The Ringed Castle
Author: Dorothy Dunnett
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Author Dorothy Dunnett
Narrator David Monteath
SeriesThe Lymond Chronicles, Book 5
Duration 25h 11m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath. Sixteen-year-old Philippa Somerville has left Constantinople intact. Returning to England as wife in name only to Francis Crawford of Lymond, she wastes no time in seeking the truth about her new spouse, even as she finds herself navigating the p...
View BookThe Lymond Chronicles Book 2: Queen's Play
Author: Dorothy Dunnett
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Author Dorothy Dunnett
Narrator David Monteath
SeriesThe Lymond Chronicles, Book 2
Duration 21h 39m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Queen's Play by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath. It is 1548 and seven-year-old Mary Queen of Scots, betrothed to her cousin the Dauphin, heir to the French throne, has been dispatched to France. But far from home and vulnerable, surrounded by the double-dealing and debauchery of a dangerous and unpr...
View BookThe Lymond Chronicles Book 4: Pawn In Frankincense
Author: Dorothy Dunnett
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Author Dorothy Dunnett
Narrator David Monteath
SeriesThe Lymond Chronicles, Book 4
Duration 24h 15m
Penguin presents the audio edition of Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath. It is 1552 and the royal galley Dauphine, under the command of Francis Crawford of Lymond, sails the glittering but dangerous Mediterranean looking for a lost son. Yet as the search grows more urgent, Lymond knows he is being drawn deeper into the...
View BookThe Lymond Chronicles Book 1: The Game of Kings
Author: Dorothy Dunnett
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Author Dorothy Dunnett
Narrator David Monteath
SeriesThe Lymond Chronicles, Book 1
Duration 21h 42m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath. It is 1547 and, after five years imprisonment and exile far from his homeland, Francis Crawford of Lymond - scholar, soldier, rebel, nobleman, outlaw - has at last come back to Edinburgh. But for many in an already divided Scotland, where conspir...
View BookThe Lymond Chronicles Book 3: The Disorderly Knights
Author: Dorothy Dunnett
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Author Dorothy Dunnett
Narrator David Monteath
SeriesThe Lymond Chronicles, Book 3
Duration 25h 16m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath. Summer, 1551, and Francis Crawford of Lymond is in Malta to assist the Knights of St John defend the island from an invading Turkish fleet. But under a weak leader there is dissension in the ranks of the Knights - and the chances of repelling in...
View BookThe Lymond Chronicles Book 6: Checkmate
Author: Dorothy Dunnett
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Author Dorothy Dunnett
Narrator David Monteath
SeriesThe Lymond Chronicles, Book 6
Duration 28h 38m
Penguin presents the audio edition of Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath. It is 1557 and legendary Scottish warrior Francis Crawford of Lymond is once more in France. There he is leading an army to rout the hated English from Calais. Yet while Lymond seeks victory on the battlefield he is haunted by his troubled past - chiefly the...
View BookAuthor: Andrea Levy
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Author Andrea Levy
Narrator Adrian Lester
Duration 11h 21m
You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that fol...
View BookAuthor: Dinah Jefferies
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Author Dinah Jefferies
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 10h 45m
Penguin presents the audio book edition of The Missing Sister by Dinah Jefferies, read by Anna Bentinck. Belle Hatton has embarked upon an exciting new life far from home: a glamorous job as a nightclub singer in 1930s Burma, with a host of sophisticated new friends and admirers. But Belle is haunted by a mystery from the past - a 25 year old newsp...
View BookAuthor: Caroline Lea
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Author Caroline Lea
Narrator Smari Gunn
Duration 11h 18m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea, read by HeiÐa Reed (Poldark, BBC) and Smari Gunn. 1686, ICELAND. AN ISOLATED, WINDSWEPT LAND HAUNTED BY WITCH TRIALS AND STEEPED IN THE ANCIENT SAGAS. Betrothed unexpectedly to J¢n Eir¡ksson, R¢sa is sent to join her new husband in the remote village of Stykkish¢lmur. Here,...
View BookAuthor: Conn Iggulden
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Author Conn Iggulden
Narrator Geoffrey Beavers
Duration 16h 22m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Dustan by Conn Iggulden, read by Geoffrey Beevers From acclaimed historical writer Conn Iggulden comes a novel set in the red-blooded days of Anglo-Saxon England. This is the original game for the English throne. In the year 937, King ’thelstan, grandson of Alfred the Great, readies...
View BookAuthor: Antonio Iturbe
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Author Antonio Iturbe
Narrator Marisa Calin
Duration 13h 39m
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terez¡n ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to smuggle pas...
View BookAuthor: Nicole Alexander
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Author Nicole Alexander
Narrator Ainslie Mcglynn
Duration 13h 32m
New South Wales, 1837: Settlers in search of fertile country are venturing far outside the colony. Cutting a swathe through the bush with their bare hands, they lay claim to territory beyond government jurisdiction - and the reach of the law. As she accepts a position on one such farm, seventeen-year-old Kate Carter is unaware she is entering a lan...
View BookAuthor: Helen Dunmore
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Author Helen Dunmore
Narrator Darren Benedict
Duration 6h 56m
Set during and just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory and devastating loss. Cornwall, 1920. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. Behind him lies the terror of the trenches. Behind him is also the most intense relationship...
View BookThe Care and Management of Lies
Author: Jacqueline Winspear
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Author Jacqueline Winspear
Narrator Josie Dunn
Duration 9h 15m
July 1914: the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained-by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm...
View BookAuthor: Kazuo Ishiguro
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Author Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrator David Horovitch
Duration 11h 56m
The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at last the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards - some st...
View BookThe Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix
Author: Paul Sussman
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Author Paul Sussman
Narrator Gordon Griffin
Duration 14h 36m
Born at the beginning of the 20th century, Raphael Ignatius Phoenix is determined to take his own life as the new millennium begins and he turns 100 years old. But before he ends it all, he wants to get his affairs in order, and that includes making sense of his own life. He decides to write it down, remembering the experiences, the myriad encounte...
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