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Author: Minette Walters
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Author Minette Walters
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 11h 27m
When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his ex-f...
View BookAuthor: Lindsey Davis
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Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 12h 12m
It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short, the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome, and brings her home to adorn his triumph as a ritual sacrifice. The logistics go wrong; she acquires a mystery illness - then a young man is horrendously murdered and she escapes from house arrest. Marcus Didius...
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...
View BookAuthor: Lynda La Plante
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Author Plante Lynda La
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 8h 8m
Identical and needlessly brutal assaults on three women. One woman survives to give a detailed description of her attacker. The police arrest a suspect, Damon Morton, confident he is their man, but three of his employees admit to the crimes and his wife and girlfriend provide him with an alibi. They all declare him innocent. The police know he did...
View BookThe Age of Revolution: A History of the English Speaking Peoples
Author: Winston S. Churchill
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Author Winston S. Churchill
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 12h 42m
During the period of this volume, from 1688 to 1815, three revolutions profoundly influenced mankind and led to war between the British and the French: the English Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1775 and the French Revolution of 1789. Beneath these political upheavals other revolutions in science and manufacture were laying the foun...
View BookThomas Kydd Series 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 12m
1803. Tensions are escalating again between England and France. While the Royal Navy launches reconnaissance, rescue missions and spies on the continent, French privateer ships are lurking in English waters poised to strike at British trade. Smugglers, perilous storms and a treacherous coastline all threaten to overcome HMS Teazer as her men fight...
View BookAuthor: John Buchan
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Author John Buchan
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 9h 27m
This classic adventure is set in war-torn Europe, and is the sequel to 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'. It shows John Buchan's mastery of the thriller and also his immense knowledge of world politics.
View BookJohnny Catbiscuit To the Rescue!
Author: Michael Cox
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Author Michael Cox
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 1h 24m
One day 12-year-old Wayne is approached by Animal Protection Man, who offers Wayne the chance to take over from him in saving animals from terrible fates. From now on, Wayne Bunn will be known as Johnny Catbiscuit! And there's no time to lose, because the evil Doctor Septic has imprisoned many cute, fluffy and helpless animals in his laboratory. So...
View BookAuthor: Alan Gibbons
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Author Alan Gibbons
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 8h 40m
Having once risked everything precious to him to halt King Lud's progress from the ancient bowels of London to the city's modern streets, teenager Paul Rector knows his task is far from over. Paul also knows that, like his brother John and his great uncle Harry, he is both demon and man. Will it be fate that decides which side wins out? To find out...
View BookAuthor: Helen Cresswell
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Author Helen Cresswell
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 5h
Katie and Josh run away from their children's home to live at Alton Towers. However, they soon discover that life isn't much fun when you live rough and Alton Towers is an eerie place after dark - a world of dark shadows and fear.
View BookAuthor: Robert Swindells
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Author Robert Swindells
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 1h 51m
For three thousand years, the Egyptian civilisation was the greatest on Earth. In the beautiful hieroglyphs, carved on tomb and temple walls, the ancient Egyptians wrote all they believed about the world: about Ra the sun god, Thoth, the god of the moon and the Measurer of Time, Osiris and Isis who gave people their skills, and about the long journ...
View BookAuthor: Robert Swindells
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Author Robert Swindells
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 4h
George is fascinated by World War Two. Even evacuation and rationing seem more exciting than dreary old Witchfield! But on a school trip to a World War Two museum, he slips back in time into 1940s London and has to survive something much worse than boredom.
View BookAuthor: Robert Harris
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Author Robert Harris
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 9h 48m
His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich Dr Alex Hoffmann is a legend - a visionary scientist whose computer software turns everything it touches into gold. Together with his partner, an investment banker, Hoffmann has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence tha...
View BookAuthor: Geoffrey Archer
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Author Geoffrey Archer
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 11h 46m
Tom Sedley's idyllic summer vacation in a leafy post war suburb of north London came to an abrupt and shocking end on the 14th September, 1948 when his sister was brutally murdered in woodland near his house. A tramp was arrested for the crime but for the young boy it was the end of childhood and the beginning of a lifelong search to discover what...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 19: The Baltic Prize
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 19
Duration 11h 16m
It's 1808. Parted from his new bride, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is called away to join the Northern Expedition to Sweden, now Britain's only ally in the Baltic. Following the sudden declaration of war by Russia, and with the consequent threat of the czar's great fleet in St Petersburg, the expedition must defend Britain's dearly won freedom in those...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 20: The Iberian Flame
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 20
Duration 12h 19m
1808. With the Peninsula in turmoil, Napoleon Bonaparte signs a treaty to dismember Portugal and put his brother, Joseph, on the throne of Spain. Meanwhile, Nicholas Renzi, the Lord Farndon, undertakes a deadly mission to stir up partisan unrest to disrupt this Napoleonic alliance with Spain. Thrust into the crucible of the uprising, Captain Sir Th...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 21: A Sea of Gold
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 21
Duration 11h 14m
1809. After his heroic actions during the retreat to Corunna, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is the toast of London society. Here he falls in with the legendary frigate captain Lord Thomas Cochrane. So begins a relationship, professional and personal, that will be unlike any that Kydd has known: a relationship that will lead him, almost simultaneously, to...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 18: Persephone
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 18
Duration 10h 45m
1807: An old passion is reawakened when Captain Sir Thomas Kydd meets Persephone Lockwood, a beautiful and determined admiral's daughter from his past. To win her hand, he must enter the highest echelons of London society. Mixing with aristocracy and royalty brings other responsibilities. The Prince of Wales asks him to take a temporary comand of t...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 17: Inferno
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 17
Duration 11h 15m
1807: Though Britain's Navy remains imperious, as succession of battles has seen Napolean victorious on mainland Europe. In an attempt to prevent the French from taking control of Denmark's navy, Captain Thomas Kydd's great friend Nicholas Renzi, now Lord Farndon, is sent on a desperate diplomatic mission to persuade the Danes to give up their flee...
View BookAuthor: Kate Summerscale
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Author Kate Summerscale
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 10h 34m
It is midnight on 30th June 1860 and all is quiet in the Kent family house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning they wake to find that their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesome murder. Even worse, the guilty party is surely one of their number - the house was bolted from the inside. As Jack Whicher, the most celebrated dete...
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 10h 29m
Home is where the heart is - but it's also where the pain lies! Young Davie Adams is all alone. Devastated, he flees his hometown of Blackburn to escape the memories of the worst night of his life. With little more than the shirt on his back he sets off on a lonely, friendless road, determined to find his father. Two people are stricken by his depa...
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