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Author: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Richard Armitage
Duration 4h 51m
When Sylvester, the Duke of Salford, first meets Phoebe Marlow, he finds her dull and insipid. She finds him insufferably arrogant. But when a series of unforeseen events leads them to be stranded together in a lonely country inn, they are both forced to reassess their hastily formed opinions, and begin a new-found liking and respect for each other...
View BookAuthor: C.J. Sansom
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Author C.J. Sansom
Narrator Justin Salinger
Duration 2h 15m
A thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on the third novel in C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime series featuring hunchback lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake. Autumn, 1541. Henry VIII, accompanied by his young bride Catherine Howard, has embarked on a Great Progress from London to York, to establish his power and authority with h...
View BookAuthor: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 25h 51m
The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London, Catherine hears ghostly voices; echoes, she thinks, of a crime committed in the same room...
View BookAuthor: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Julia Franklin
Duration 19h 13m
France, 1152. A beautiful woman is escaping through France, leaving behind two young daughters and a shattered marriage. This woman is Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, and her sole purpose is to marry the man she loves, Henry Plantagenet, a man destined for greatness as King of England. Theirs is a union founded on lust which will create a great empi...
View BookAuthor: Toni Morrison
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Author Toni Morrison
Narrator Toni Morrison
Duration 12h
In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family. Sethe knows that the spirit is that of her own baby daughter, 'Beloved', who has retur...
View BookCadfael: The Virgin In the Ice
Author: Ellis Peters
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Author Ellis Peters
Narrator Philip Madoc
SeriesThe Brother Cadfael Chronicles, Book 6
Duration 2h 15m
Shrewsbury, 1139. The bloody civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud has swept through the country towards the rural security of Brother Cadfael's monastery. The citizens of Worcester have fled, among them two orphaned children of noble stock, together with their tutor, a young nun. A Benedictine monk in whose care Lady Ermina and her broth...
View BookAuthor: Maureen Lee
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Author Maureen Lee
Narrator Maggie Ollerenshaw
Duration 14h 2m
As Britain stands alone against a monstrous enemy, the inhabitants of Pearl Street face hardship and heartbreak with courage and humour. The war touches each of them in a different way: for Annie Poulson, a widow, it means never-ending worry when her twin boys are called up and sent to France; Sheila Reilly's husband, Cal, faces the terror of a U-B...
View BookAuthor: Dilly Court
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Author Dilly Court
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 13h 1m
Eighteen-year-old Irene Angel lives with her parents in a tiny room above the shop where her crippled mother ekes out a living selling pickles and sauces, whilst her charming but feckless father Billy gambles away what little money they do manage to earn. And it is all Irene can do to keep the family together. Billy's addiction soon leads him into...
View BookAuthor: Pat Barker
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Author Pat Barker
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 47m
London, the Blitz, autumn 1940. Ambulance drivers Elinor Brooke and Kit Neville ferry injured survivors from bomb sites to hospitals while Elinor's husband Paul works as an air-raid warden. Once fellow students at the Slade School of Fine Art, before the First World War destroyed the hopes of their generation, now all three find themselves caught i...
View BookAuthor: Colm Toibin
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Author Colm Toibin
Narrator William Hope
Duration 13h 44m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Master by Colm Toibin, read by Geoffrey Howard.In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they ar...
View BookAuthor: Lindsey Davis
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Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Anton Lesser
SeriesMarcus Didius Falco, Book 1
Duration 1h 51m
One fine day, A.D. 70, Sosia Camillina quite literally runs into Marcus Didius Falco on the steps of the Forum. It seems Sosia is on the run from a couple of street toughs, and after a quick and dirty rescue, P.I. Falco wants to know why. Falco finds out that Sosia, the niece of a highly placed senator, holds the secret to a stockpile of silver pig...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Richard Armitage
Duration 5h 26m
Horatia Winwood is the youngest and the least attractive of the three Winwood sisters. She also has a stammer. But when the enigmatic and eminently eligible Earl of Rule offers for her oldest sister's hand - a match that makes financial and social sense, but would break her heart - it is Horatia who takes matters into her own impetuous hands. Can s...
View BookAuthor: Lindsey Davis
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Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Anton Lessor Et Al
SeriesMarcus Didius Falco, Book 5
Duration 2h 14m
Returning to Rome after his mission to Germania, Falco finds that his mother is being harassed by a centurion named Censorinus, who says he is chasing a debt owed to him by Falco's brother Festus. Censorinus claims that Festus was involved in a syndicate, shipping valuable statues from Greece - and that even when his ship sunk, Festus had guarantee...
View BookAuthor: Lindsey Davis
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Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Anton Lesser Et Al
SeriesMarcus Didius Falco, Book 4
Duration 2h 47m
Anton Lesser and Anna Madeley star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the fourth novel in Lindsey Davis's bestselling series featuring Roman private eye Falco. The Iron Hand of Mars sees Falco being dispatched to one of the most hostile parts of the Empire to deliver a new standard - an iron hand - to one of the legions. Germania is col...
View BookAuthor: Hall Martha Kelly
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Author Hall Martha Kelly
Narrator Various
Duration 15h 30m
It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a life...
View BookAuthor: Virgil
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Author Virgil
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 54m
A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Virgil's sweeping epic, starring Ralph Fiennes as Aeneas and Derek Jacobi as the Narrator. One of the classics of all time, The Aeneid was Virgil's last and greatest work. In it, he recounts in vivid imagery the legendary origin of the Roman Empire. The story begins after the Greeks have destroyed the city of Troy. Th...
View BookLovely Lane Book 3: The Mothers of Lovely Lane
Author: Nadine Dorries
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Author Nadine Dorries
Narrator Georgia Maguire
SeriesLovely Lane Series, Book 3
Duration 14h 15m
Noleen Delaney is one of an army of night cleaners at St Angelus hospital in Liverpool. Since her husband was injured in the war, she has supported her five children and the family; she just about gets by. When Finn, her youngest, passes the 11-plus exam, Noleen feels faint. Allowing Finn to attend the grammar will stretch her purse too far. As the...
View BookLovely Lane Book 2: The Children of Lovely Lane
Author: Nadine Dorries
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Author Nadine Dorries
Narrator Georgia Maguire
SeriesLovely Lane Series, Book 2
Duration 16h 45m
St Angelus runs like a family: the workers take care of their own - a lesson the mysterious new assistant matron, Miss Van Gilder, is about to learn the hard way. Little Joe has had trouble breathing but the doctors don't take his sister Lily's concerns seriously, least of all Miss Van Gilder. The nurses of Lovely Lane have a secret which is dividi...
View BookLovely Lane Book 1: The Angels of Lovely Lane
Author: Nadine Dorries
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Author Nadine Dorries
Narrator Georgia Maguire
SeriesLovely Lane Series, Book 1
Duration 14h 30m
It is 1953, and five girls are arriving to start their training at St Angelus Hospital. Dana has escaped from her family farm in Ireland. Victoria is running away from an aristocratic background. Beth is an army brat and throws her lot in with bitchy Celia Forsyth, and Pammy has come from the wrong side of the tracks. When an unknown girl is admitt...
View BookAuthor: Colm Toibin
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Author Colm Toibin
Narrator Niamh Cusack
Duration 8h 36m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Brooklyn by Colm Toibin, read by Niamh Cusack. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her ho...
View BookThe Rebel Heart: Henry Gresham and the Earl of Essex
Author: Martin Stephen
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Author Martin Stephen
Narrator Michael Tudor Barnes
Duration 14h 56m
It is 1598, and Elizabeth I is growing old. Court shivers with intrigue as to who will claim the throne when she dies. Will the Spanish attempt to invade once more, will Scotland's King James take the crown - or will the Queen's favourite, the Earl of Essex, prove a surprise successor? One man with inside knowledge is young Henry Gresham. Commanded...
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