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Author: Rosie Goodwin
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Author Rosie Goodwin
Narrator Charlie Sanderson
Duration 12h 58m
Ginny's drunken father, devastated by the death of her mother and three siblings, ends up imprisoned for murder. Charlie, Ginny's 8-year-old sickly brother, is taken to the workhouse. Ginny is forced to flee her job and the unwanted advances of the baker. Close to breaking point, her beauty leads her to become Lady's Maid to the difficult Miss Dian...
View BookIsabel's Story Book 1: The Promise
Author: Michelle Vernal
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Author Michelle Vernal
Narrator Catherine Press
SeriesIsabel's Story, Book 1
Duration 10h 16m
From award winning author, Michelle Vernal comes an utterly heartbreaking, historical novel inspired by her birth family's connection with the Isle of Wight - Fans of Susan Sallis, Ella Carey and Fiona Valpy will absolutely love this captivating, unique story. 1944 The Isle of Wight - Sixteen-year-old Constance's life on the island is sheltered unt...
View BookAuthor: Tania Crosse
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Author Tania Crosse
Narrator Emma Powell
Duration 8h 44m
Devon, 1887. Life has not been kind to dairymaid Tresca Ladycott. She can't rely on her flighty farmhand father, Emmanuel, so she relies on herself. Then comes a devastating blow. Tresca is sacked from the dairy and the pair lose their home. She and her father seek a new life in bustling Tavistock. More hardship lies ahead. The only work to be foun...
View BookAuthor: Rosie Goodwin
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Author Rosie Goodwin
Narrator Charlie Sanderson
Duration 11h 5m
The perfect Christmas gift from Britain's best-loved saga author.1885.Ruby Carter works hard in her parents' bakery. Whilst life isn't easy, she's happy enough - her gentle mother protects young Ruby from her cruel father and loves her unconditionally. So, when her mother falls seriously ill, Ruby is heartbroken. Then, from her deathbed, her mother...
View BookThe Victory Sisters Book 2: A Sister's Song
Author: Molly Green
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Author Molly Green
Narrator Sophie Bentinck
SeriesThe Victory Sisters, Book 2
Duration 13h 34m
Her duty is to keep smiling through.... When World War II breaks out, Suzanne’s dream of attending the Royal Academy of Music crumbles. Determined to do her bit, she joins a swing band that entertains troops in some of the worst-hit cities of Europe. Through singing, Suzanne finds a confidence she never knew she had, and she soon win...
View BookThe Victory Sisters Book 1: A Sister's Courage
Author: Molly Green
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Author Molly Green
Narrator Sophie Bentinck
SeriesThe Victory Sisters, Book 1
Duration 14h 13m
In the midst of war, she knew her place was not at home.... The most ambitious of three sisters, Lorraine ‘Raine’ Linfoot always dreamed of becoming a pilot. As a spirited 17-year-old, she persuades her hero Doug Williams to teach her to fly. When war breaks out in 1939, Raine is determined to put her skills to good use. She enlists i...
View BookAuthor: Alistair Maclean
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Author Alistair Maclean
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 11h 50m
The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast, waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy, lives that could be saved if only the guns could be silenced. The guns of Navarone, vigilant, savage and catastrophically...
View BookJames Marwood & Cat Lovett Book 1: The Ashes of London
Author: Andrew Taylor
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Author Andrew Taylor
Narrator Leighton Pugh
SeriesJames Marwood & Cat Lovett, Book 1
Duration 12h 59m
From the number one best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand-new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London. The first of an exciting new series of novels. London, September 1666. The Great Fire rages through the city, consuming everything in its path. Even the impregnabl...
View BookThe Victory Sisters Book 3: A Sister's War
Author: Molly Green
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Author Molly Green
Narrator Sophie Bentinck
SeriesThe Victory Sisters, Book 3
Duration 14h 15m
Britain, 1943 Ronnie Linfoot may be the youngest of three sisters, but she’s determined to do her bit.... Against her strict mother’s wishes, Ronnie signs up to join the Grand Union Canal Company, where she’ll be working on a narrowboat taking critical supplies between London and Birmingham. But with no experience o...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Winman
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Author Sarah Winman
Narrator The Author
Duration 14h 55m
The instant Sunday Times best seller A BBC Between Two Covers Book Club Pick A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war, art and the ghost of E.M. Forster. 1944, in the ruined wine cellar of...
View BookAuthor: Judith Kerr
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Author Judith Kerr
Narrator Helen Barford
Duration 6h 31m
Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own father was one of those people. That is what happened to Anna in 1933. She was nine-years-old when it began, too busy with her schoolwork and tobogan...
View BookAdventures of Odysseus Book 1: King of Ithaca
Author: Glyn Iliffe
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Author Glyn Iliffe
Narrator Steve Watts
Duration 12h 39m
The first book in an unmissable and ferociously exciting adventure series for readers of David Gemmell, Christian Cameron and Simon Scarrow Greece is in turmoil, divided by feuding kingdoms desiring wealth, power and revenge. When young soldier Eperitus comes to the aid of a group of embattled warriors, little does he know he will join the charism...
View BookAuthor: Lissa Evans
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Author Lissa Evans
Narrator Joanna Scanlan
Duration 8h 26m
What do you do next, after you've changed the world? It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club – an old possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade. Mattie is a woman with a thrilling past and a chafingly uneventful present. During the Women's Suffrage Campaign she was a militant. Jailed...
View BookEddie Dawson Book 1: To Do or Die
Author: James Barrington
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Author James Barrington
Narrator Mike Mousicos
SeriesEddie Dawson, Book 1
Duration 9h 15m
Treachery and valour in the Second World War. As Hitler's armies march across Europe, Eddie Dawson, an explosives expert and lance-corporal in the Royal Engineers, is sent to France on an assessment mission. His task completed, he anticipates an early return to Britain. Instead, he's sent to German territory where the French have launched an...
View BookThrone of the Caesars Book 1: Iron and Rust
Author: Harry Sidebottom
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Author Harry Sidebottom
Narrator Colin Mace
SeriesThrone of the Caesars, Book 1
Duration 11h 15m
AD 235: a surprise attack and the brutal murder of the Emperor Alexander and his mother ends the Severan dynasty and shatters four decades of Roman certainty. Military hero Maximinus Thrax is the first Caesar risen from the barracks. A simple man of steel and violence, he will fight for Rome. The Senators praise the new Emperor with elaborate orato...
View BookAuthor: David Barbaree
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Author David Barbaree
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 10h 27m
A gripping historical thriller for fans of Robert Harris's Cicero trilogyA.D. 79. Parthia is gripped by civil war. One king vying for the throne, desperate for help, welcomes an alliance from an unlikely source: a man claiming to be Nero, the dethroned Roman emperor.Meanwhile, young Gaius wishes he could spend his summer on the Bay of Naples a...
View BookAuthor: Stacey Halls
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Author Stacey Halls
Narrator Katy Sobey
Duration 9h 6m
To save her child, she will trust a stranger. To protect a secret, she must risk her life... Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. When Fleetwood finds a letter she...
View BookAuthor: Meg Keneally
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Author Meg Keneally
Narrator Jessica Ball
Duration 12h 2m
Highway robberConvictRunawayMotherJenny Trelawney is no ordinary thief. Forced by poverty to live in the Devon forest, she becomes a successful highway woman - until her luck runs out.Transported to Australia, pregnant and alone, Jenny must face harsh challenges in an unforgiving land. When famine hits the new colony, Jenny becomes convinced that t...
View BookAuthor: Eileen Ramsay
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Author Eileen Ramsay
Narrator Lucy Brownhill
Duration 11h 17m
When her beloved father is killed in the Blitz, trainee nurse April Harvey is all alone in the world. Desperate to find the family she craves, she heads to Truro, her mother's home town.But danger and heartbreak lurk even in Cornwall, and when the American G. I.s arrive, April finds her life turned upside down as she discovers that some people are...
View BookAuthor: Anton du Beke
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Author Anton du Beke
Narrator Thomas Judd
Duration 11h 37m
London, 1937.With a new king in place, tensions are rising in London and across Europe. Shaken by the Great Depression and withtalk of another war coming, the Buckingham Hotel is trying to regain some stability.Upstairs, Vivienne Edgerton is desperate to do something worthwhile with her time and her stepfather's money, rather than spending it on fr...
View BookAuthor: Anton du Beke
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Author Anton du Beke
Narrator Julian Ovenden
Duration 12h 23m
London, 1936.Inside the spectacular Grand Ballroom of the exclusive Buckingham Hotel the rich and powerful, politicians, film stars, even royalty, rub shoulders with Raymond de Guise and his troupe of talented dancers from all around the world, who must enchant them, captivate them, and sweep away their cares. Accustomed to waltzing with the highes...
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