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Thomas Kydd Series Book 9: Treachery
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 9
Duration 10h 45m
Thomas Kydd has dragged himself up in the navy from press-ganged seaman to captain of his own ship. Now he faces disgrace. After losing favour with his superiors, and suffering terrible personal tragedy, Kydd and his ship are sent to guard the Channel Islands from Napoleon's forces. When he is brutally betrayed off the Normandy Coast and removed fr...
View BookAuthor: Lindsey Davis
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Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 11h 30m
For Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, Alexandria holds fascination and a hint of fear. Beautiful, historic and famously unruly, the great cosmopolitan city wears Roman rule lightly. While his wife, Helena Justina, wants to see the Lighthouse and the Pyramids, Falco has a mission at the Great Library that soon turns out to involve...
View BookAuthor: Helen Cresswell
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Author Helen Cresswell
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThe Bagthorpe Saga, Book 8
Duration 5h 43m
Bad, mad and brilliant to know - it's the Bagthorpes again! Confusion reigns at Unicorn House when the resident tramp disappears. A police search is undermined as various Bagthorpes pursue their own lines of enquiry - and disappear...Another fantastic story featuring the funniest family in fiction, from bestselling author Helen Cresswell.
View BookAuthor: C S Forester
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Author C S Forester
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 4h 15m
Captain Hornblower, after two hard years on blockade at Brest, has relinquished the helm of the Hotspur. He has no ship, only the promise of one. Meanwhile there are battles to be fought.
View BookThe World In Crisis 1911-1918: Part One
Author: Winston Churchill
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Author Winston Churchill
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 14h 20m
Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With dramatic narrative power Churchill reconstructs the action on the Western and Eastern Fronts, the wars at sea and in the air and the advent of tanks and U-boats. Rich with personal insights, the first par...
View BookThe Second World War: Triumph and Tragedy
Author: Winston S. Churchill
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Author Winston S. Churchill
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 13h 47m
Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 7: Command
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 7
Duration 10h 38m
Thrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness - he is desperately needed to defend Malta against Barbary corsairs, ferocious privateers and the French who are frantically trying to rescue the remnants of their army in the Levant. But his jubilation does not last long -...
View BookAuthor: Lindsey Davis
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Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 11h 24m
Marcus Didius Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked - by a gruesomely severed human hand. Soon other body parts are being found in the aqueducts and sewers. Public panic overcomes official indifference, and the Aventine partners are commissioned to investigate. Women are being abducted during festivals, a...
View BookThe Crystal Pool: Myths and Legends of the World
Author: Geraldine Mccaughrean
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Author Geraldine Mccaughrean
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 4h 6m
A crystal pool of myths and legends from around the world: 28 of the most wonderful tales ever told. Geraldine McCaughrean, a great storyteller herself, has gathered them from distant times and faraway places and retells them brilliantly, adding notes on their origin and meaning.
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