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Author: Roland Vernon
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Author Roland Vernon
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 17h 39m
Greece, 1869 Godwin Tudor, a young English photographer recently arrived in Athens, is intrigued by the mysterious and maverick British landowner Edgar Brooke, whose vast estate dominates the island of Pyroxenia. Whilst visiting Brooke's remote home, Godwin is enchanted by the breathtaking landscape and his host's capricious young daughter Lydia. B...
View BookThe Last Kingdom Book 1: The Last Kingdom
Author: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
SeriesThe Last Kingdom, Book 1
Duration 5h 32m
The first book in a brand-new series, The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at 10, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules...
View BookThe Last Kingdom Book 7: The Pagan Lord
Author: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Matt Bates
SeriesThe Last Kingdom, Book 7
Duration 10h 22m
As the ninth century wanes, England appears about to be plunged into chaos once more. For the Viking-raised but Saxon-born warrior, Uhtred, whose life seems to shadow the making of England, this presents him with difficult choices. King Alfred is dying and his passing threatens the island of Britain to renewed warfare. Alfred wants his son, Edward,...
View BookAuthor: Conn Iggulden
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Author Conn Iggulden
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 15h 16m
A remarkable story of heroism and adventure, of a boy who had to become a man too soon, of a family and a tribe who had to learn to win to survive. A man without a tribe was at great risk, so the young boy abandoned with his siblings on the harsh Mongolian plains had to struggle to avoid death. He survived both starvation and hostile attacks by lea...
View BookThe Last Kingdom Book 6: The Death of Kings
Author: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Matt Bates
SeriesThe Last Kingdom, Book 6
Duration 10h 22m
As the ninth century wanes, England appears about to be plunged into chaos once more. For the Viking-raised but Saxon-born warrior, Uhtred, whose life seems to shadow the making of England, this presents him with difficult choices. King Alfred is dying and his passing threatens the island of Britain to renewed warfare. Alfred wants his son, Edward,...
View BookThe Last Kingdom Book 5: The Burning Land
Author: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Matt Bates
SeriesThe Last Kingdom, Book 5
Duration 11h 2m
In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. The Danes, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, smell opportunity...First comes Harald Bloodhair, a savage warrior leading a Viking horde, who is encouraged to cruelty by his woman, Skade. But Alfred still has the servi...
View BookAuthor: Lily Baxter
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Author Lily Baxter
Narrator Penelope Freeman
Duration 12h 3m
It is April 1939 and unaware that the German war machine is advancing towards the Channel Islands, seventeen-year-old Meg Colivet and her sister are enjoying a holiday in Oxford with their aunt. Here Meg meets charismatic German undergraduate Rayner Weiss and the couple fall passionately in love. But all too soon, Britain is at war with Germany, Gu...
View BookAuthor: Linda Sue Park
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Author Linda Sue Park
Narrator David Baker, Cynthia Bishop
Duration 2h 41m
In 1985 southern Sudan is ravaged by war. Rebels and government forces battle for control, with ordinary people . . . people like the boy, Salva Dut . . . caught in the middle. When Salva's village is attacked, he must embark on a harrowing journey that will propel him through horror and heartbreak, across a harsh desert, and into a strange new lif...
View BookA Horseman Riding By Trilogy Book 1: Long Summer Day
Author: R F Delderfield
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Author R F Delderfield
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
SeriesA Horseman Riding By Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 27h 38m
Paul Craddock is still young when he is invalided out of the army after the Boer War and he discovers the neglected estate of Shallowford in a secluded corner of Devon. It seems remote from the march of progress. But as storm clouds gather over Europe, Paul learns that no part of England, however remote, can escape the challenge of the times.
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Sian Phillips
Duration 10h
Finding so young and pretty a girl as Amanda wandering unattended, Sir Gareth Ludlow knows it is his duty as a man of honour to restore her to her family. But it is to prove no easy task for the Corinthian. His captive in spring muslin has more than her rapturous good looks and bandboxes to aid her - she is also possessed of a runaway imagination.....
View BookAuthor: Rita Bradshaw
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Author Rita Bradshaw
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 12h 30m
As her mother lies dying, twelve-year-old Lucy Fallow promises to look after her younger siblings and keep house for her father and two older brothers. Over the following years the Depression tightens its grip. Times are hard and Lucy's situation is made more difficult by the ominous presence of Tom Crawford, who lives next door, the eldest son of...
View BookAuthor: Douglas Reeman
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Author Douglas Reeman
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 10h 42m
From captured bases and makeshift harbours in North Africa, the Royal Navy's Special Force was to be the probe and spearhead of the Allied advance into enemy territory in 1943. To this unorthodox war came the corvette HMS Thistle and her commander, John Crispin - both veterans.
View BookAuthor: Dilly Court
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Author Dilly Court
Narrator Penelope Freeman
Duration 13h 28m
On a bitter winter's day, an unnamed girl lies dangerously ill in hospital. When two coarse, rough-speaking individuals come to claim her, she can remember nothing of the events that brought her to her present state, not even her name. According to the men, she is their young sister, Lucy. As her health improves and her memory gradually returns, sh...
View BookAuthor: Lalita Tademy
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Author Lalita Tademy
Narrator Debra Michaels
Duration 12h 9m
A heartbreaking and compelling story of a family's experiences of slavery and the American Civil War. From Sam Tademy, the son of a runaway slave, and his fiercely strong wife Polly, to the father and son who witness unspeakable crimes, this is a story in which courage and hope do battle with almost unendurable suffering; where real lives collide w...
View BookAuthor: Glenice Crossland
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Author Glenice Crossland
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 11h 26m
When seventeen-year-old Mary O'Connor collapses one Sunday in church she is taken to live with Dr Roberts and his wife in a beautiful Yorkshire village for her health. Though initially employed as a maid, Mary soon becomes the daughter the couple were never able to have. With Britain at war, unable to remain idle, Mary finds employment in the local...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Aston
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Author Elizabeth Aston
Narrator Phyllida Nash
Duration 10h 33m
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a husband. Well, that's what her friends and relations say. But recently-widowed Octavia Darcy disagrees. She hasn't forgotten her impoverished girlhood. Now, when she unexpectedly finds herself an heiress, her ambition is to lead an indepe...
View BookAuthor: Crossland Glenice
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Author Crossland Glenice
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 12h 5m
In the small Yorkshire town of Cottenly - dominated by the steel works and surrounded by beautiful countryside - Isaac Stanford lives with his wife Emily and their three lovely daughters, known locally as the Stanford lasses. Alice, the eldest, lives only for her work as a secretary and chapel on Sunday. Fair and loving Lizzie is content with her j...
View BookAuthor: Mary Hooper
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Author Mary Hooper
Narrator Eve Matheson
Duration 6h 35m
Anne can't move a muscle, can't open her eyes, can't scream. She lies immobile in the darkness, unsure if she'd dead, terrified she's buried alive, haunted by her final memory-of being hanged. A maidservant falsely accused of infanticide in 1650 England and sent to the scaffold, Anne Green is trapped with her racing thoughts, her burning need to re...
View BookAuthor: Janet Paisley
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Author Janet Paisley
Narrator Carolyn Bonnyman
Duration 13h 51m
Anne Farquharson is a Highland girl - tempestuous, bold, determined to be her own woman. Yet the Farquharson clan is threatened. The Highlands suffer at the domineering hand of English King George, while there are rumours that Bonnie Prince Charlie, exiled to France, is raising an army in a bid for the throne. When Anne marries a clan chief and cre...
View BookAuthor: Lily Baxter
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Author Lily Baxter
Narrator Penelope Freeman
Duration 11h 31m
It is 1940 and Britain is at war with Germany. In London, eighteen-year-old Susan Banks longs to do her duty. Her secret ambition is to learn to fly - to serve her country and realise her dream. But she knows it is out of the question for a girl like her; a foundling, unwanted and unloved and dependent on strangers for her welfare. Just as she fear...
View BookCorsair: The Adventures of Hector Lynch
Author: Tim Severin
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Author Tim Severin
Narrator Rupert Farley
Duration 13h 15m
In 1677, on a late summer's evening two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. They are Barbary corsairs from North Africa, slave catchers. As soon as it is dark, their landing parties row ashore to raid a small fishing village - on the hunt for fresh prey... In the village, seventeen-year-old Hector Lynch wakes to the sound of a pistol sho...
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