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Author: Mary Stewart
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Author Mary Stewart
Narrator Eileen Mills
Duration 6h
Returning to the era of Arthur and his Camelot, Mary Stewart introduces two lesser-known characters from Malory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur'. Alexander, nephew of the murderous King March of Cornwall, is a young prince who sets off on a quest to avenge his father's assassination, and Alice is a gentle young girl who accompanies her father on pilgrimages t...
View BookAuthor: Jean Rhys
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Author Jean Rhys
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 5h 45m
Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece 'Wide Sargasso Sea' was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre', and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress, Antoinette Cosway, meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marr...
View BookAuthor: Conn Iggulden
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Author Conn Iggulden
Narrator Paul Blake
SeriesEmperor, Book 4
Duration 15h 24m
Fresh from triumph in Britain and Gaul, Caesar is marching on Rome with his legions of hardened veterans. To unseat Pompey, now dictator of the empire, he must make the terrible decision to wage war on his own people.The glory that Julius, Brutus, Mark Antony and Octavian enjoy is short lived. There are lands to conquer and choices to make that may...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Laura Paton
Duration 2h 29m
A fantastic historical 'biography', which spans almost 400 years in the lifetime of its protagonist, Orlando, who ages only thirty-six years and changes gender from man to woman. Woolf reflects how perceptions of masculinity and femininity changed in Europe over the centuries and presents a feminist overview of history from the days of Elizabeth th...
View BookAuthor: Gavriel Savit
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Author Gavriel Savit
Narrator Allan Corduner
Duration 6h 30m
Anna and the Swallow Man is a stunning, literary, and wholly original debut novel that tells a new WW2 story. Krak¢w, 1939, is no place to grow up. There are a million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. And Anna Lania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father and suddenly, she's alone. Then she meets the Swallow Man....
View BookAuthor: Pat Barker
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Author Pat Barker
Narrator Kristin Atherton, Michael Fox
Duration 10h 44m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker, read by Kristin Atherton and Michael Fox. From the Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration and one of our greatest contemporary writers on war comes a re-imagining of the most famous conflict in literature - the legendary Trojan War. The great city of Troy is unde...
View BookAuthor: Lafayette Madame De
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Author Lafayette Madame De
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 14m
Madame de Lafayette's classic tale of intrigue and love, La Princesse de ClŠves, dramatised for BBC Radio 3 and originally broadcast in the Drama on 3 slot on 28 February 2010. Set in the 16th Century, the play follows the life of a beautiful young lady newly presented to Court. It's the reign of Henri II and Mary Queen of Scots is safely en...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 7: Command
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 7
Duration 10h 38m
Thrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness - he is desperately needed to defend Malta against Barbary corsairs, ferocious privateers and the French who are frantically trying to rescue the remnants of their army in the Levant. But his jubilation does not last long -...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Kent
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 10h 52m
March 1814. Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England from several months' rigorous patrolling off the North American coast. War with the United States has not yet ended, but news of Napoleon's defeat and abdication has stunned a navy and a nation bled by years of European conflict. Victory has been the impossible dream and now, for Bolitho, a...
View BookAuthor: Rosie Clark
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Author Rosie Clark
Narrator Helena Coates
Duration 9h 26m
Newly married to the caring RAF pilot Jonathan Reece, Emma thinks that life couldn't be better. But her happiness is short-lived: within months, Jon's plane is shot down over France and he is declared missing, presumed dead. Alone and with two children to care for, Emma's first thought is how to support her family. But when she makes a new friend i...
View BookAuthor: Maureen Lee
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Author Maureen Lee
Narrator Maggie Ollerenshaw
Duration 14h 7m
The product of an affair between a nurse and an injured American soldier during the Great War, Ruby O'Hagan's early life is in an orphanage. At sixteen she runs away with a farmworker, and two years later she is alone and homeless with her two daughters. Her friend, Mrs Hart, leaves her big friendly house for Ruby to look after and it is here that...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Aston
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Author Elizabeth Aston
Narrator Phyllida Nash
Duration 11h 54m
A richly entertaining recreation of Regency London, as the next generation of Darcy girls have to make their way in a society that doesn't always appreciate their wit, determination and sense of fun. This is the story of Cassandra, a young cousin to the children of Mr and Mrs Darcy of 'Pride and Prejudice'. She's a worthy heir to them in every way...
View BookAuthor: Rosemary Sutcliff
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Author Rosemary Sutcliff
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Eagle of the Ninth, Book 1
Duration 1h 53m
Around 117 AD the Roman Ninth Legion was ordered to put down an uprising among the Caledonian tribes. Four thousand men vanished without a trace into the swirling mists of the north of Roman Britain. Many years after their disappearance, a young centurion, Marcus Aquila, sets out to discover the truth about what happened to the legion and to its Fi...
View BookAuthor: Robert Harris
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Author Robert Harris
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 13h 54m
When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The sen...
View BookAuthor: Patrick Suskind
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Author Patrick Suskind
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 8h 42m
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Kent
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 11h 39m
It is October 1789, in New South Wales. Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who hopes to be ordered home to England. Instead, he is despatched on a mission to the islands of the Great South Se...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Tom Sellwood
Duration 14h 32m
Uhtred, Northumbrian born, raised a Viking and married to a Saxon, is a formidable warrior, and he, together with the thoughtful and pious Alfred, Alfred's family and a few of Uhtred's companions, are apparently all that remain of the Wessex leadership after a disastrous truce. Defeated comprehensively by the Vikings, Alfred and his Saxon followers...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Tom Sellwood
Duration 13h
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 Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English Kingdom to survive the Danish assault. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE/ADULT THEMES
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Holli Dempsey
Duration 29h 40m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse, read by Holli Dempsey. One good deed takes her into another world . . . Sixteen-year-old Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until the day she saves the life of Tabitha, a minister's daughter. Welcomed into Tabitha's family, Matilda is offered the chance of a lifeti...
View BookCousins' War Series Book 5: The White Princess
Author: Philippa Gregory
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Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator Sarah Feathers
SeriesCousins' War, Book 6
Duration 18h
The haunting story of the mother of the Tudors, Elizabeth of York, wife to Henry VII. Beautiful eldest daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville - the White Queen - the young princess Elizabeth faces a conflict of loyalties between the red rose and the white. Forced into marriage with Henry VII, she must reconcile her slowly growing love for hi...
View BookAuthor: Nadine Dorries
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Author Nadine Dorries
Narrator Emma Gregory
Duration 8h 38m
1950s Liverpool. In the tight-knit community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up. One is motherless and hated by the cold woman determined to take her dead mother's place. The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare not tell to anyone. The people of Four Streets laugh, grieve and hope together. But what can they do when a betraya...
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