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Author: Jean M Auel
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Author Jean M Auel
Narrator Rowena Cooper
SeriesEarth's Children® Series, Book 5
Duration 29h 55m
The fifth book in the hugely successful Earth's Children series. Ayla and Jondalar have reached home: the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France. Ayla has much to learn from the Zelandonii as well as much to teach them. Jondalar's family are initially wary of the beautiful young wom...
View BookAuthor: Jean M Auel
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Author Jean M Auel
Narrator Rowena Cooper
SeriesEarth's Children® Series, Book 6
Duration 29h 58m
The Land of Painted Caves concludes the story of Ayla, her mate Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla, taking readers on a journey of discovery and adventure as Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni - one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers. Once aga...
View BookThe Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
Author: Paterson Joseph
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Author Paterson Joseph
Narrator Paterson Joseph
Duration 10h 53m
I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more... It's 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man, especially one who has escaped slavery. After the twinkling lights in the Fleet Street coffee shops are blown out and the great houses have clos...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Miller
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Author Andrew Miller
Narrator Jonathan Aris
Duration 9h 44m
A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love.... A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their mid...
View BookAuthor: Jessie Burton
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Author Jessie Burton
Narrator Alisha Bailey
Duration 3h 41m
'A beautiful and profound retelling' - Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe 'Gives the serpent-headed monster of myth a powerful and haunting humanity' - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne and Elektra _________________ If I told you that I'd killed a man with a glance, would you wait to hear the rest? The why, the how, what happ...
View BookAuthor: Amanda Geard
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Author Amanda Geard
Narrator Caitlin Shannon
Duration 14h 6m
1940: In south-west Ireland, the young and beautiful Lady Charlotte Rathmore is pronounced dead after she mysteriously disappears by the lake of Blackwater Hall. In London, on the brink of the Blitz, Nancy Rathmore is grieving Charlotte's death when a letter arrives containing a secret that she is sworn to keep—one that will change her life f...
View BookAuthor: Tanya Landman
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Author Tanya Landman
Narrator Chris Devon
Duration 4h 30m
A historical time-slip adventure from the Carnegie Medal-winning author of Apache and Buffalo Soldier. Alfie Wright? Alfie Wrong, more like. Alfie has never really fitted in anywhere – he doesn't have any friends, and even his mum seems embarrassed of him. So when he's evacuated to a farm in rural Devon run by kind old Aunt Bell and her gentl...
View BookAuthor: Maggie O'Farrell
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Author Maggie O'Farrell
Narrator Genevieve Gaunt
Duration 13h 29m
Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and observing its clandestine workings. But when her older sister dies on the eve of marriage to Alfonso d'Este, ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is qui...
View BookAuthor: Chloe Gong
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Author Chloe Gong
Narrator Emily Woo Zeller
Duration 18h 29m
It's 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue. Four years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the strange experiment that saved her also stopped her from sleeping and aging—and allows her to heal from any wound. In short, Rosalind cannot die. Now, desperate for redemption from her past,...
View BookAuthor: Jacquie Bloese
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Author Jacquie Bloese
Narrator Candida Gubbins
Duration 11h 5m
Freedom worth fighting for. Love worth waiting for. In Nazi-occupied Guernsey, the consequences of making the wrong decision can be deadly.... Left profoundly deaf after an accident, Émile is no stranger to isolation—or heartbreak. Now, as Nazi planes loom over Guernsey, he senses life is about to change forever. Trapped in a tense, fe...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Parr
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Author Lesley Parr
Narrator Maya Grant
Duration 5h 22m
_______________ A STIRRING HISTORICAL MYSTERY SET IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE VALLEY OF LOST SECRETS The First World War has ended, but it hasn't gone away. When Natty has to move to a new village, she meets two young soldiers who are still battling the effects of war. Huw can't forget the terrible things he's se...
View BookAuthor: Robert Cubitt
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Author Robert Cubitt
Narrator Michael Hajiantonis
SeriesCarter's Commandos, Book 1
Duration 8h 53m
Here’s an old saying in the Army, "Never volunteer for anything". It has been said many times, so why on Earth did Steven Carter ignore it? After volunteering for the Army Commandos, Carter finds himself cut off in enemy occupied Norway. It’s winter, it’s cold and the enemy are hunting for him. Can he survive against all these odd...
View BookAuthor: Cindy Anstey
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Author Cindy Anstey
Narrator Fiona Hardingham
Duration 7h 44m
From the author of Suitors and Sabotage comes a swoonworthy Christmas adventure, perfect for fans of Jane Austen and Downton Abbey.1817. The happy chaos of the Yuletide season has descended upon the country estate of Shackleford Park in full force, but lady's maid Kate Darby barely has the time to notice. Between her household duties...
View BookAuthor: R.F. Kuang
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Author R.F. Kuang
Narrator Billie Fulford-Brown, Chris Lew Kum Hoi
Duration 21h 45m
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world. And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows. Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a...
View BookRaven, Fisher and Simpson Book 3: A Corruption of Blood
Author: Ambrose Parry
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Author Ambrose Parry
Narrator Cathleen Mccarron, Bryan Dick
SeriesRaven, Fisher and Simpson, Book 3
Duration 12h 35m
Edinburgh. This city will bleed you dry. Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is pleading for his help to escape the hangman. Back in the townhouse of Dr James Simpson, Sarah Fisher has set her sig...
View BookRaven, Fisher and Simpson Book 2: The Art of Dying
Author: Ambrose Parry
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Author Ambrose Parry
Narrator Bryan Dick, Louise Brealey, Jayne McKenna
SeriesRaven, Fisher and Simpson, Book 2
Duration 11h 46m
Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances. Simpson...
View BookRaven, Fisher and Simpson Book 1: The Way of All Flesh
Author: Ambrose Parry
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Author Ambrose Parry
Narrator Bryan Dick, Louise Brealey
SeriesRaven, Fisher and Simpson, Book 1
Duration 11h 45m
Edinburgh, 1847. City of Medicine, Money, Murder. Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Simpson's patients range from the richest to the poorest of this divi...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 12: Conquest
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 12
Duration 10h 5m
Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar removed the spectre of invasion and England is now free to seek conquests and colonies in the furthest reaches of the world. Captain Kydd joins an expedition to take Dutch-held Cape Town, a strategic imperative to secure the rich trade-route to India. But even if the British can defeat the enemy and take possessio...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 10: Invasion
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 10
Duration 11h 15m
Napoleon's forces are poised to invade Britain, and Commander Thomas Kydd's ship is at the forefront of the fleet defending the English coast. His honour restored after temporary disgrace in the Channel Islands, and reunited with his ship Teazer, Kydd seizes the chance to fight for his country. Then Kydd is abruptly withdrawn from the fleet and s...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 2: Artemis
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 2
Duration 11h 25m
This second naval adventure follows the life of Thomas Paine Kydd who sails into Portsmouth a hero after a ferocious battle against the French. Soon the sea beckons and Kydd sets off aboard his beloved Artemis for another adventure.
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 11: Victory
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 11
Duration 11h 15m
Commander Thomas Kydd is eager to play his part in thwarting Bonaparte’s plans for the invasion of England. Joining Admiral Nelson’s command, Kydd and his ship soon find themselves at the heart of the action that leads up to the famous clash of the mighty British and French fleets at Trafalgar. Kydd’s journey takes him from fal...
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