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Author: Tracy Chevalier
Format: MP3 CD
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 BookThe Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Disappearing Detective
Author: Anthony Read
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Author Anthony Read
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 2h 20m
The Boys are helping Sherlock Holmes solve a case when Holmes himself disappears. Only the Boys realise that he hasn't gone undercover but has actually been kidnapped by a Fenian gang from Boston who are planning to assassinate the Queen.
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: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 10h 13m
When Gervase Frant, Seventh Earl of St Erth, returns at last from Waterloo to his family seat at Stanyon, he enjoys a less than welcome homecoming. Only Theo, a cousin even quieter than himself, is there to greet him - and when he meets his stepmother and young half-brother he detects open disappointment that he survived the wars. The dangers of th...
View BookThe Affair of the Mutilated Mink
Author: James Anderson
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Author James Anderson
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 9h 42m
The Earl of Burford can't believe his luck; Rex Ransom, his favourite star from the 'talkies', and his hot-shot producer, Haggermeir, want to film their next feature at Alderley, the family's seventeenth-century country estate. Somewhat less enthusiastic is the Countess, who suddenly finds herself hosting an impromptu house party for the incoming H...
View BookThe Affair of the Thirty-nine Cufflinks
Author: James Anderson
Format: MP3 CD
Author James Anderson
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 9h 30m
Understandably, Lord Burford had some misgivings about hosting another house party at Alderley, his beautiful country mansion. After all, the previous two could at best be described as disastrous. But with family members travelling down for a relative's funeral, the Earl really had no choice but to offer them accommodation. It didn't take long for...
View BookAuthor: G.P. Taylor
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Author G.P. Taylor
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 10h 22m
London is living through one of its darkest times - a comet has just missed the Earth, leaving the city in chaos and the people fearing an apocalypse. Tersias, a blind boy oracle, has predicted the comet and sees visions of the future through the darkness. As Tersias's powers strengthen, people who seek to use them are drawn from the shadows; Malic...
View BookAuthor: Anne Perry
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Author Anne Perry
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 13h 52m
Cambridge 1914, and the golden June days seem timeless. But for Joseph Reavley, a university don, the idyllic summer is shattered by his parents' deaths in a car accident. Bringing the terrible news, his brother reveals that their father, a retired MP, had been travelling to see him about a sinister plot he had discovered.
View BookAuthor: Tracy Chevalier
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Author Tracy Chevalier
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 7h 20m
Jean Le Viste, a fifteenth-century nobleman close to the King, hires an artist to design six tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. Nicolas des Innocents overcomes his surprise at being offered this commission when he catches sight of his patron's daughter, Claude. His pursuit of her pulls him into the web of fragile relationships betwe...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 8h 15m
Stepping into the wrong carriage in a Sussex village, Elinor Rochdale is swept up in a thrilling and dangerous adventure. Overnight the would-be governess becomes mistress of a ruined estate and partner in a secret conspiracy to save a family's name. By midnight she is a bride, by dawn a widow.
View BookAuthor: Anne Perry
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Author Anne Perry
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 10h 37m
The war is coming to a close. Joseph Reavley's regiment has suffered huge losses but all live in hope that peace will soon be upon them, when a further, brutal tragedy strikes the front. Sarah Price, a young nurse, is savagely murdered and Joseph vows to find the person responsible. Matthew, Joseph's brother, is already at the front to meet a priso...
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