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Thomas 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...
View BookThe Secrets of the Chess Machine
Author: Robert Lohr
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Author Robert Lohr
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 13h 22m
In Vienna 1770, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, The Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really nothing more than a brilliant illusion. The chess machine is secretly operated from inside by the Italia...
View BookCousins' War Series Book 2: The Red Queen
Author: Philippa Gregory
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Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator Emily Watson
SeriesCousins' War, Book 2
Duration 12h 26m
The second book in Philippa's stunning new trilogy, The Cousins War, brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort, a shadowy and mysterious character in the first book of the series - The White Queen - but who now takes centre stage in the bitter struggle of The War of the Roses. The Red Queen tells the story of the child-bride of Edmund Tudor, wh...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Waters
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Author Sarah Waters
Narrator Zulema Dene
Duration 18h 10m
Nancy's place is in her father's seaside restaurant in Whitstable, Kent, shucking shellfish and stirring soup. At night she often ventures to the nearby music hall and the moment she spies a new male impersonator, the beautiful Miss Kitty Butler - still something of a curiosity in England circa 1888 - she falls head-over-heels in love with her. Fol...
View BookAuthor: Kate Mosse
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Author Kate Mosse
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 27h
1942, Nazi-occupied France. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance group in Carcassonne - codenamed 'Citadel' - made up of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right. And when she meets Raoul, they discover a shared passion for the cause, for their homeland, and for eac...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Paul Blake
Duration 11h 48m
The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and Alfred's kingdom of Wessex in the south. But trouble stirs, a dead man has risen and new Vikings have arrived to occupy London. It is a dangerous time, and it falls to Uhtred, half Saxon, half Dane, a man feared and respected the length and breadth of Brit...
View BookAuthor: Marina Fiorato
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Author Marina Fiorato
Narrator Emma Powell
Duration 16h 10m
Messina, Sicily, 1588. Beatrice of Mantua comes to the court of her uncle Leonato, to be companion to his daughter, Hero. That fateful summer, Spanish lordling Don Pedro visits for a month-long sojourn on the island with his regiment. In his company is the young soldier Benedick of Padua. Benedick and Beatrice begin to wage their merry war of wit,...
View BookAuthor: Irene Nemirovsky
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Author Irene Nemirovsky
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 13h 41m
In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a novel that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Set during a year that begins with France's fall to the Nazis in June 1940, this audiobook falls into t...
View BookAuthor: Maggie Hope
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Author Maggie Hope
Narrator Claire Jones
Duration 11h 33m
Against the odds, miner's daughter Theda Wearmouth succeeds in gaining a nursing place at Newcastle Hospital. By the time war breaks out, she is newly qualified and working in a children's ward, a role she adores. She also finds herself being courted by a young soldier. Only Theda's dreams of becoming Mrs Alan Price are shattered when he is killed...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Perry
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Author Sarah Perry
Narrator Juanita Mcmahon
Duration 14h 45m
London, 1893. When Cora Seaborne's controlling husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. Along with her son Francis - a curious, obsessive boy - she leaves town for Essex, in the hope that fresh air and open space will provide refuge. On arrival, rumours reach them that the mythical Essex Serpent, once sai...
View BookAuthor: Anne Perry
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Author Anne Perry
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
SeriesWilliam Monk, Book 20
Duration 12h 30m
Commander William Monk: in search of justice, he will not stop until he has found the truth. It is a time of progress, with the Empire's interests expanding and the contentious new Suez Canal nearing completion. Many people stand to gain-and to lose-as the world rapidly changes. When a Thames pleasure boat is blown up with the loss of many lives, a...
View BookAuthor: Dilly Court
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Author Dilly Court
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 12h 3m
When seventeen-year-old Belinda Phillips falls in love with a handsome Anglo-Indian officer, she knows that he is a man she can never hope to marry. When he is reported missing, believed killed in action, Belinda discovers that she is pregnant. Facing disgrace and ruin, she has no option other than to accept an arranged marriage with a middle-aged...
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Faulks
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Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator Jamie Glover
Duration 16h 39m
IN 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparantly simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman called Peter Gregory, who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France an...
View BookThe Inspector Mclevy Mysteries: The Second Shadow & the Burning Question
Author: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 25m
Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulholland. Counterfeiters are at work in the city in The Second Shadow, and McLevy is under pressure to secure rapid convictions. But his mind is more on the...
View BookAuthor: Robert Harris
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Author Robert Harris
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 10h 25m
Where else to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? All along the coast, the Roman Empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor. Only one man is worried. The engineer Marcus Attilius has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct t...
View BookAuthor: E V Thompson
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Author E V Thompson
Narrator Graham Roberts
SeriesThe Jagos of Cornwall, Book 2
Duration 116h
On a wild stormy night in 1813, Nathan Jago, drift fisherman, ex-prizefighter and lord of the manor of Polrudden, rescues a young boy from a drowning mother's arms as a French ship founders on the jagged Cornish rocks. It is an act that will profoundly affect his destiny. Despite hard times, Nathan and his wife Amy adopt Jean-Paul and bring him up...
View BookAuthor: Valerie Wood
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Author Valerie Wood
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 13h 8m
Ruby and Grace had grown up in the slums of Middle Court, the poorest place in Hull. Friends since early childhood, they had supported each other in bad times and good. Ruby's ma, Bess, addicted to the opium which dulled the pain of her miserable existence, tried hard to be a good mother, but without too much success, while Grace's parents, Bob and...
View BookAuthor: Wilbur Smith
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Author Wilbur Smith
Narrator Mike Grady
Duration 13h 48m
EGYPT IS UNDER ATTACK. The old Pharaoh Tamose lies mortally wounded. The ancient city of Luxor is surrounded. All seems lost. Taita, ex-slave and general of Tamose's armies, leads his men to victory against Egypt's enemies. But upon his victorious return to Luxor, he is seized as a traitor. Tamose is dead and a new Pharaoh has risen. Pharaoh Utteri...
View BookAuthor: Douglas Reeman
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Author Douglas Reeman
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 10h 58m
HMS 'Temeraire' is the latest, most advanced nuclear submarine in the British fleet. Her trials are cut short and she is ordered to the Far East to reinforce the fleet against a threat from Red China. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE/ADULT THEMES.
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