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The District Nurses Book 1: The District Nurses of Victory Walk
Author: Annie Groves
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Author Annie Groves
Narrator Alex Tregear
SeriesThe District Nurses, Book 1
Duration 11h 18m
The compelling new best seller from the author of The Mersey Daughter and Winter on the Mersey. Alice Lake has arrived in London from Liverpool to start her training as a District Nurse, but her journey has been far from easy. Her parents think that she should settle down and get married, but she has already had her heart broken onc...
View BookThe District Nurses Book 2: Wartime for the District Nurses
Author: Annie Groves
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Author Annie Groves
Narrator Alex Tregear
SeriesThe District Nurses, Book 2
Duration 11h
The compelling new best seller from the author of The Mersey Daughter and Winter on the Mersey. Alice Lake and her friend Edith have had everything thrown at them in their first year as district nurses in London’s East End. From babies born out of wedlock to battered wives, they’ve had plenty to keep them occupied. As r...
View BookAuthor: Wilbur Smith
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Author Wilbur Smith
Narrator Mike Grady
Duration 15h 13m
A novel of Ancient Egypt from the best-selling author of River God. Wilbur Smith is a master at the helm of one of the greatest stories of all time. On the banks of the Nile, a hero will rise. Across the lush plains of Egypt, Taita, a freed eunuch slave, wears his authority lightly. Not only is he the close advisor to the Pharaoh, but he is...
View BookAuthor: Wilbur Smith
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Author Wilbur Smith
Narrator Giles Kristian, Sean Barrett
Duration 12h 33m
Worldwide best-selling author Wilbur Smith will take you on an incredible journey on the thrashing seas off the coast of Africa in this glorious return to the series that made him who he is: The Courtney series. East African coast, 1670. In a time of brave and brutal adventure, one man will journey across land and sea to pursue his greatest enemy...
View BookAuthor: Wilbur Smith
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Author Wilbur Smith
Narrator Mike Grady
Duration 15h 15m
The Malabar coast is full of dangers: greedy tradesmen, fearless pirates, and men full of vengeance. But for a Courtney, the greatest danger might just be his own family.... Francis Courtney flees the comfort of his Devonshire estate when his stepfather's gambling debts leave him penniless and at risk. He sails to South Africa with revenge and for...
View BookThe Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
Author: Donna Freitas
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Author Donna Freitas
Narrator Kristen Sieh
Duration 12h
ONE QUESTION.ONE CHOICE.NINE PATHS TO THE REST OF HER LIFE… One day, Rose Napolitano’s marriage ends.Her husband wants a baby – but motherhood has never been part of the plan. One day, Rose Napolitano’s marriage survives.She loves her husband. Could she reimagine her future? One day.One fight.Nine different lives. Follo...
View BookAuthor: Dilly Court
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Author Dilly Court
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 22h 26m
Taking deep breaths of the cold city air, Katherine whispered, 'This isn't the London I know.' East-End London, 1858. In London's twisting streets, it's hard to tell friend from foe. And for Katherine Martin, arriving back in London after years away, the city is far crueller than she remembers. Her eyes opened to the plight of London's poor, Kate i...
View BookThomas Kydd Book 8: The Admiral's Daughter
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 8
Duration 11h 11m
1803. Tensions are escalating again between England and France. Smugglers, perilous storms and a treacherous coastline all threaten to overcome HMS Teazer as her men fight to gain control of the seas. Meanwhile an unlikely rival is seeking her captain's heart. The beautiful admiral's daughter could be the key to realising all Kydd's career ambition...
View BookAuthor: Kate Grenville
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Author Kate Grenville
Narrator Valerie Bader
Duration 9h 22m
It is 1788. Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur promises her the earth one midsummer's night, she believes him. But Elizabeth soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Her new husband is reckless, tormented, driven by som...
View BookAuthor: Maaza Mengiste
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Author Maaza Mengiste
Narrator Robin Miles
Duration 16h 11m
With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Hirut and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor...
View BookAuthor: Tracy Chevalier
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Author Tracy Chevalier
Narrator Fenella Woolgar
Duration 10h 45m
Violet is 38. The First World War took everything from her. Her brother, her fiancé – and her future. She is now considered a ‘surplus woman’. But Violet is also fiercely independent and determined. Escaping her suffocating mother, she moves to Winchester to start a new life –a change that will require courage, resi...
View BookAuthor: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 15
Duration 10h
'Paints a vivid picture of life aboard the mighty ship-of-the-line' - Daily ExpressAn Admiralty summons to England cuts short Thomas Kydd's service in the turquoise waters of the Caribbean. While the crew of L'Aurore can look forward to liberty and prize money, a shadow hangs over their captain: the impending court martial of his one...
View BookAuthor: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 16
Duration 10h 32m
The greatest naval trial in the Georgian period is underway at Portsmouth with the court-martial of Sir Home Popham, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd's commanding officer in the doomed occupation of Buenos Aires. Kydd has some sympathy for Popham's unauthorised action, but his support for his former commander leaves him athwart some very influential people...
View BookAuthor: Lucinda Riley
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Author Lucinda Riley
Narrator Anjana Srinivasan
Duration 16h 43m
In the heyday of the British Raj, Anahita becomes Princess Indira's official companion, and accompanies her to England just before the outbreak of the Great War. There, she meets the young Donald Astbury – reluctant heir to a magnificent, estate—and his scheming mother. Eighty years later, Rebecca Bradley, a young American film star, ha...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 23: Balkan Glory
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 23
Duration 12h 4m
1811. The Adriatic, the 'French Lake', is the most valuable territory Napoleon Bonaparte possesses. The Admiralty summons Thomas Kydd to lead a squadron of frigates into these waters to cause havoc and distress to the enemy. Kydd is dubbed 'The Sea Devil' by Bonaparte who personally appoints one of his favourites, Dubourdieu, along with a fleet tha...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 22: To the Eastern Seas
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 22
Duration 11h 57m
1811. The Adriatic, the 'French Lake', is the most valuable territory Napoleon Bonaparte possesses. The Admiralty summons Thomas Kydd to lead a squadron of frigates into these waters to cause havoc and distress to the enemy. Kydd is dubbed 'The Sea Devil' by Bonaparte who personally appoints one of his favourites, Dubourdieu, along with a fleet tha...
View BookThe Confessions of Frannie Langton
Author: Sara Collins
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Author Sara Collins
Narrator Roy Mcmillan
Duration 12h 14m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Confessions of Frannie Langton read by Sara Collins. They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I confess what I don't believe I've done? 1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie La...
View BookAuthor: Patrick O'Brian
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Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Gordon Griffin
SeriesGolden Ocean, Book 1
Duration 11h
A fictionalised retelling of Commodore (later Admiral) Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740, which precedes O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. Peter Palofox, son of a poor Irish parson, signs on as a midshipman, never before having seen a ship. Together with his lifelong friend Sean, Peter sets out to seek his fortune, embarking upon...
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 12h 30m
Set in 17th-century France against a backdrop of terror and religious frenzy. Juliette seeks refuge in a remote abbey - and reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste. Then her past turns up to haunt her in the guise of a man she has every reason to fear.
View BookAuthor: Tobsha Learner
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Author Tobsha Learner
Narrator Deirdre Rubenstein
Duration 20h
This is the story of Ruth bas Elazar Saul, a Jewish midwife who returns to her home of Deutz, outside Cologne in Germany. Imbued with the radical ideas of Spinoza and with the ancient Hebrew Kabbalism, Ruth's revolutionary methods of dealing with illness lead to accusations of witchcraft and imprisonment. Her love affair with Detleff von Tennen, a...
View BookAuthor: Patrick O'Brian
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Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Gordon Griffin
SeriesGolden Ocean, Book 2
Duration 12h 30m
Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, 'The Golden Ocean', took inspiration from Commodore Anson's ill-fated voyage around the globe in 1740. With this audiobook, O'Brian returns to this rich source to recount the adventures of two young men - midshipman Jack Byron and naive surgeon's mate Tobias Barrow - aboard the Wager, which was parted fr...
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