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Author: Fanny Burney
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Author Fanny Burney
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 37h 28m
Among Jane Austen's favorite novels, and a key work in the rise of Romanticism, "Camilla" follows the story of three young women, from childhood to young adulthood, and their pursuit of matrimony. Kind but naive Camilla is in love with Edgar Mandlebert, a handsome and noble young man, but must suffer a series of frequent misunderstandings that thre...
View BookAuthor: Penelope Lively
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Author Penelope Lively
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 8h 33m
Maria is always getting lost in the secret world of her imagination...A ghostly mystery and winner of the Whitbread Award,republished in the Collins Modern Classics range.Maria likes to be alone with her thoughts. She talks to animals and objects, and generally prefers them to people. But whilst on holiday she begins to hear things that aren't ther...
View BookAuthor: Michael Broad
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Author Michael Broad
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 48m
These are the secret agent case files of Amelia Kidd. She's saved the world loads of times from evil geniuses and criminal masterminds, thanks to her great disguises, her own gadgets (which sometimes work), and her brilliance at improvising in sticky situations. In this story Amelia foils a daring jewel theft during a class trip to the museum, than...
View BookAuthor: Polly Evans
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Author Polly Evans
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 8h 33m
A comic account of the author's solo cycling trip across Spain. After working for four years at a leading London book publisher, Polly Evans moved to Hong Kong where she spent many happy hours as a senior editor on the city's biggest entertainment weekly. But fighting deadlines from a twizzly office chair and free use of the coffee machine seemed j...
View BookAuthor: Caro Peacock
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Author Caro Peacock
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 9h 46m
Duelling and dastardly deeds are all in a day's work for Liberty Lane. Thomas Jacques Lane - radical, romantic, scholar and devoted father - had led an unconventional life but of one thing his daughter, Liberty, is certain: he would never have taken part in a duel. So when she receives a note informing her of his death in just such a manner, Libert...
View BookJake Jellicoe and the Dread Pirate Redbeard
Author: Joanna Nadin
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Author Joanna Nadin
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 2h 9m
When Jake Jellicoe signs up as cabin boy aboard the Flounder, Captain Dreadnought promises him a share of the loot. But he soon discovers that the captain isn't all that he seems and, before he knows it, Jake is caught up in a race for the Dread Pirate Redbeard's treasure!
View BookAuthor: Vanora Bennett
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Author Vanora Bennett
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 13h 7m
St Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms to take refuge with relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed into the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. But revolution is in the air and, as society begins to fracture, she is forced to choose between her heart and her head. She loves her broodin...
View BookAuthor: Vanora Bennett
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Author Vanora Bennett
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 17h 29m
The year is 1527. Hans Holbein makes his first visit to England under the patronage of Sir Thomas More. As a guest in the splendid More house in Chelsea, Holbein begins to paint their first family portrait. Little could he know that in a few short years, the family, Tudor society and England itself would have changed beyond recognition. More's hous...
View BookAuthor: Vanora Bennett
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Author Vanora Bennett
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 20h 2m
Catherine de Valois, daughter of the French King, is brought up in the unstable environment of the royal court, where her only friend is the poet Christine de Pizan. Married to Henry V as part of a treaty, she is terrified at the idea of being married to a man who is a foreigner, an enemy and a rough soldier. Within two years she is widowed, and mo...
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Author Vanora Bennett
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 19h 27m
Fourteenth century England. The country is in turmoil. The King is in debt to the City, and the old order had broken down. The King's mistress, Alice Perrers, becomes the virtual ruler of the country. Dislaked and despised by the Black Prince, her strong connections to the merchants maker her a natural ally for the King's ambitious second son, John...
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Author Vanora Bennett
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 13h 48m
As the Wars of the Roses draw slowly to a close, England is a place of turmoil. Edward IV is on the thrown but his position is unstable and he finds himself challenged by a man who would become Henry VII. But Isabel, a silk weaver to the court and mistress to Richard II, can cut through the turmoil with her clever ways and her pretty smile. Her sis...
View BookAuthor: Polly Evans
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Author Polly Evans
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 7h 50m
In the dead of winter, Polly Evans ventures to the remote Yukon Territory in Canada's far northwest, where temperatures plunge to minus forty and the sun rises for just a few hours each day. Her mission: to learn to drive sled dogs. But when she arrives, she finds there's more to this unspoilt wilderness than deathly cold. In a pristine landscape p...
View BookAuthor: Wendy K. Harris
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Author Wendy K. Harris
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 11h 9m
'My advice is to gather together every shred of self-worth that you can summon, plus all your memories that make you feel good. Hold onto them like mad and fashion a new life for yourself doing what you want.' She tapped Sophie's arm again. 'Ditch the rest; it's not worth the headspace. And don't try to see too far into the future either. Do what's...
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