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The 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
Format: MP3 CD
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
Format: MP3 CD
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
Format: MP3 CD
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...
View BookAuthor: Patrick O'Brian
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Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Graham Roberts
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 14
Duration 13h 25m
In this audiobook Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape, but after a stay in Batavia and a change of ship, they are caught up on a chase in fiercely tidal waters and then embroiled in much more insidious conflicts on the terrify...
View BookAuthor: Patrick O'Brian
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Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Christopher Kay
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 15
Duration 11h
As the book opens, Captain Jack Aubery sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship: to his astonishment he finds that, in spite of a lifetime's experience, he does not know what the foremost hands or even h...
View BookAuthor: Tracy Chevalier
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Author Tracy Chevalier
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 9h 22m
London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss, a blow that only a completely new life may soften. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, the youngest Kellaway boy, an...
View BookAuthor: Anne Perry
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Author Anne Perry
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 11h 54m
It's July 1917, and as the sun sets over no-man's-land so Joseph Reavley's heart sinks with it. As chaplain he must keep up the men's morale, but as rumours of mutiny grow stronger he is losing any chance of getting through to them. After the death of an officer, twelve soldiers are arrested, and it falls to Joseph to uncover the truth about their...
View BookMen of War & the Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Format: MP3 CD
Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Stephen Thorne
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 21
Duration 6h
At the time of Patrick O'Brian's death, he was half way through a novel that continued the Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin series. In a moment of almost felicity, Jack Aubrey has seen his illegitimate son ably discharging important duties, Sophie and his daughters are with him, and Stephen has a new love. And Jack, at last, is flying a Rear-Admiral...
View BookAuthor: Patrick O'Brian
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Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Graham Roberts
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 20
Duration 10h 35m
Napoleon's hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level Admiral. He and Maturin have - at last - set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. The twentieth title in the Aubrey-Maturin series.
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Richard Armitage
Duration 10h 2m
The year is 878, and the Saxons of Wessex, under King Alfred, have defeated the Danes to keep their kingdom free. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, helped Alfred win that victory, but now he is disgusted by Alfred's lack of generosity. Uhtred flees Wessex, going north to search for his stepsister, who was taken prisoner by Kjarta...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesSharpe, Book 11
Duration 11h 43m
This is the twenty-first novel in the Sharpe series. In the winter of 1811 the war seemed lost. All Spain had fallen to the French, except for Cadiz which was now the Spanish capital and was under siege. Wellington and his British army were in Portugal, waiting for spring to spark the war to life again. Richard Sharpe and his company are part of a...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Irwin
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Author Margaret Irwin
Narrator Phyllida Nash
Duration 9h 15m
In July, 1553, sibling rivalry has never been more tumultuous than between the daughters of King Henry VIII. Queen Mary Tudor has just won possession of the throne, but her half-sister - the Princess Elizabeth - holds the hearts of the people. Knowing this, Mary banishes her to a country retreat, determined to keep her as far away from court life a...
View BookAuthor: Iain Gale
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Author Iain Gale
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 9h 31m
Meet Lieutenant Jack Steel - gentleman, soldier, hero. Upper Bavaria, 1704. The British army, victorious, unbeaten since the Peninsula war, stands proudly to attention, ready to fight for honour and glory. Their enemy is Louis XIV of France, a megalomaniac intent on possessing all Europe. Among this proud group of men stands Lieutenant Jack Steel,...
View BookAuthor: Colleen Mccullogh
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Author Colleen Mccullogh
Narrator Sneha Mathan
Duration 27h 2m
Mark Antony, famous warrior and legendary lover, expected that he would be Julius Caesar's successor. But after Caesar's murder it was his 18-year old nephew, Octavian, who was named in the will. No one, least of all Antony, expected him to last but his youth and slight frame concealed a remarkable determination and a clear strategic sense. Antony...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator William Gaminara
SeriesSharpe, Book 20
Duration 9h 27m
Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814. The invasion of France is under way, and the British Navy has called upon the services of Major Richard Sharpe. He and a small force of Riflemen are to capture a fortress and secure a landing on the French coast. It is to be one of the most dangerous missions of his career. Through the incompetence of a...
View BookAuthor: Peter Ackroyd
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Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 6h 51m
Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the German archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test, and soon she is tieing canvas sacking to her legs so that she can kneel on the hard ground in the trench, removing the earth methodically, identifying salient points, lifting out amphorae and br...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Phyllida Nash
Duration 12h 20m
The three great-nephews of cantankerous Mr Penicuik know better than to ignore his summons, especially when it concerns the bestowal of his fortune. The wily old gentleman has hatched a typically freakish plan for his stepdaughter's future and his own amusement: his fortune will be Kitty's dowry. But while the beaux are scrambling for her hand, Kit...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Kent
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 11h 35m
This novel introduces Adam, nephew of Richard Bolitho, and captain of the newly-commissioned frigate 'Unrivalled'. The story follows Adam and his crew as they take on pirates and slavers in the aftermath of victory at Waterloo.
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 1: Kydd
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 1
Duration 10h
Thomas Kydd, a wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang to be a part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the realities of shipboard life fast. Despite all that he goes through in danger of tempest and battle, he comes to admire the skills and courage of the seamen. CONTAINS ST...
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