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Author: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 8h 15m
Stepping into the wrong carriage in a Sussex village, Elinor Rochdale is swept up in a thrilling and dangerous adventure. Overnight the would-be governess becomes mistress of a ruined estate and partner in a secret conspiracy to save a family's name. By midnight she is a bride, by dawn a widow.
View BookAuthor: Maureen Lee
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Author Maureen Lee
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 11h 10m
Pretty Amy Curran was just eighteen years old when she met Barney Patterson, the love of her life, on Southport Pier in 1939. Their romantic, passionate marriage was made in heaven - but with the outbreak of war, Barney volunteered to fight, and the couple were separated for five long years. When he returned to Liverpool after VE Day he wasn't the...
View BookAuthor: Jean M Auel
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Author Jean M Auel
Narrator Rowena Cooper
SeriesEarth's Children® Series, Book 3
Duration 28h 26m
Leaving the valley that has become her home with Jondalar, the handsome man she has nursed back to health and come to love, Ayla embarks on a journey that will lead her to the Mamutoi - the Mammoth Hunters. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Bridget Collins
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Author Bridget Collins
Narrator Carl Prekopp
Duration 15h 29m
Imagine you could erase your grief. Imagine you could forget your pain. Imagine you could hide a secret. Forever. Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice - but one neither he nor his parents can affo...
View BookNightingales Series Book 2: The Nightingale Sisters
Author: Donna Douglas
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Author Donna Douglas
Narrator Penelope Freeman
SeriesNightingales Series, Book 2
Duration 14h
To the student nurses at The Nightingale hospital, the ward sisters are heartless and frightening, with impossibly high standards. But the sisters have troubles of their own... Dora, the student nurse is struggling with her heartbreak over Nick, the man who got away. A new arrival on the ward brings the chance to put a smile back on her face. But c...
View BookAuthor: Abir Mukherjee
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Author Abir Mukherjee
Narrator Simon Bubb
SeriesSam Wyndham, Book 2
Duration 11h 17m
The fabulously wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore: home to tigers, elephants, diamond mines and the beautiful Palace of the Sun. When the heir to the throne of Sambalpore is assassinated in Calcutta in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and his colleague 'Surrender-Not' Banerjee, Wyndham works to uncover the reasons behind Prince Punit's death, despite...
View BookNightingales Series Book 1: The Nightingale Girls
Author: Donna Douglas
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Author Donna Douglas
Narrator Penelope Freeman
SeriesNightingales Series, Book 1
Duration 15h
Three very different girls sign up as student nurses in 1936, while England is still mourning the death of George V. Dora is a tough East Ender, driven by ambition, but also desperate to escape her squalid, overcrowded home and her abusive stepfather. Helen is the quiet one, a mystery to her fellow nurses, avoiding fun, gossip and the limelight. In...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Irwin
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Author Margaret Irwin
Narrator Phyllida Nash
Duration 10h 50m
Growing up in the shadow of her dead mother, the infamous Anne Boleyn, young Princess Elizabeth has learnt to be continuously on the watch for the political games played out around her. It is never certain when one might rise in, or precariously fall out of, royal favour. When her distant father, Henry VIII, dies, the future brightens for Elizabeth...
View BookAuthor: Dilly Court
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Author Dilly Court
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 13h 4m
Since the untimely death of her husband, young mother Effie Grey has been forced to live on a narrowboat owned by her tyrannical father-in-law Jacob. In spite of her own despair, she is determined to protect her brother Tom and her baby son Georgie from Jacob's bullying ways - for she is all they have in the world. But when Jacob hires villainous S...
View BookCousins' War Series Book 6: The King's Curse
Author: Philippa Gregory
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Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator Bianca Amato
SeriesCousin's War, Book 6
Duration 24h 30m
The riveting story of Margaret Pole, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, one of the few surviving members of the Plantagenet dynasty after the Wars of the Roses. Plantagenet, once carried proudly by Margaret like a crown upon her head, is now, at the end of the 15th century, the most dangerous name in England...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Kent
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 11h 14m
March 1784. It is a time of peace and most of Her Majesty's fleet is laid up. The frigate Undine is despatched to India and beyond, and even though the war with France is temporarily over, the far side of the world promises plenty of action for Undine's captain, Richard Bolitho. Bolitho has to face alone the new threats of European nations greedy f...
View BookAuthor: Rosella Postorino
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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: Maureen Lee
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Author Maureen Lee
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 14h 35m
At the age of nineteen, Kitty McCarthy has decided she is going to live a life less ordinary - although she doesn't know quite how to go about it. What she does know is that she doesn't want to get married and raise children in Liverpool like her elder sisters: Claire, who is a mother-hen, easy-going Norah and elegant Aileen. But Kitty's resolve is...
View BookThe Deverill Chronicles Book 1: Songs of Love and War
Author: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Genevieve Swallow
Duration 17h 30m
Set in the ruggedly wild countryside of West Cork, Ireland, in the early part of the twentieth century, Songs of Love and War is an epic tale of three very different women all born in the year 1900: Kitty Deverill, the flame-haired Anglo-Irish daughter of the castle, Bridie Doyle, the daughter of the cook and Celia Deverill, Kitty's flamboyant Engl...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Jamie Glover
Duration 5h 6m
Cleone Charteris is the joy and despair of all the young men of the countryside, and she seeks a husband - a man who can duel and dice with the best of them. One of the men after her heart is the masterful and handsome Mr. Philip Jettan. But compared to other men in 18th-century England, Philip is out of step - he is careless in his appearance and,...
View BookMistress of the Art of Death Series Book 2: The Death Maze
Author: Ariana Franklin
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Author Ariana Franklin
Narrator Diana Bishop
SeriesMistress of the Art of Death, Book 2
Duration 11h 50m
Rosamund Clifford, the mistress of King Henry II, has died an agonizing death by poison - and the king's estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is the prime suspect. Henry suspects that Rosamund's murder is probably the first move in Eleanor's long-simmering plot to overthrow him. If Eleanor is guilty, the result could be civil war. The king must o...
View BookAuthor: Dorothy L Sayers
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Author Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 8m
In a shocking scandal, the likes of which has not been seen in the English aristocracy since the 18th century, the Duke of Denver stands accused of the foul murder or his sister's fiance, shot through the heart on a cold, lonely night at Riddlesdale Hall in Yorkshire. The Duke's brother, Lord Peter Wimsey, attempts to prove Denver's innocence, but...
View BookAuthor: Valerio Massimo Manfredi
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Author Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Narrator Paul Blake
Duration 11h 25m
Jerusalem, 586BC. The Kingdom of Judah is on the verge of annihilation by the Babylonians. In the chaos the Prophet Jeremiah rushes to save the sacred Ark of the Covenant. As he locates the preordained hiding place which will make it impossible to be found, he makes a terrible discovery... The Middle East, early in the second millenium. Professor W...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 9: Treachery
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 9
Duration 10h 45m
Thomas Kydd has dragged himself up in the navy from press-ganged seaman to captain of his own ship. Now he faces disgrace. After losing favour with his superiors, and suffering terrible personal tragedy, Kydd and his ship are sent to guard the Channel Islands from Napoleon's forces. When he is brutally betrayed off the Normandy Coast and removed fr...
View BookAuthor: Pam Jenoff
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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...
View BookAuthor: Emma Darwin
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Author Emma Darwin
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 13h 25m
The story of the Princes in the Tower has been one of the most fascinating - and most brutal - murder mysteries in history for more than five hundred years. In a brilliant feat of historical daring, Emma Darwin has recreated the terrible, exhilarating world of the two youngest victims of the War of the Roses: the power struggles and passion that la...
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