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Author: Elizabeth Buchan
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Author Elizabeth Buchan
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 18h 6m
For Kay, living on her husband Bror's country estate, the Nazi invasion is a time of uncertainty. Bror is desperate to preserve the legacy of his home, even if it means co-existing with the enemy; Kay cannot do the same. She is lured by British Intelligence into a world of resistance. Tasked with protecting an SOE agent, Kay learns the art of subte...
View BookAuthor: Susan Lewis
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Author Susan Lewis
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 12h 19m
His life was destroyed by a lie. Her life will be ruined by the truth. Joely tells other people's secrets for a living. As a ghost writer, she's used to scandal – but this just might be her strangest assignment yet. Freda has never told her story to anyone before. But now she's ready to set the record straight and to rig...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Sanderson
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Author Catherine Sanderson
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 12h 2m
Catherine Sanderson has a job in Paris, the city of her dreams, a handsome Frenchman, a beautiful bilingual toddler, and a charming apartment with breathtaking views. So why does she feel that her life is coming apart? Stuck in a relationship quickly losing its heat, overwhelmed by the burdens of motherhood, and restless in a dead-end administrativ...
View BookAuthor: Veronica Henry
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Author Veronica Henry
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 10h 15m
The Orient Express. Luxury. Mystery. Romance. For one group of passengers settling in to their seats and taking their first sips of champagne, the journey from London to Venice is more than the trip of a lifetime. A mysterious errand; a promise made to a dying friend; an unexpected proposal; a secret reaching back a lifetime...As the train sweeps...
View BookThe Bletchley Girls: War, Secrecy, Love and Loss. the Women of Bletchley Park Tell Their Story
Author: Tessa Dunlop
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Author Tessa Dunlop
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 12h 18m
The Bletchley Girls weaves together the lives of fifteen women who were all selected to work in Britain's most secret organisation - Bletchley Park. It is their story, told in their voices; Tessa met and talked to 15 veterans, often visiting them several times. Firm friendships were made as their epic journey unfolded on paper. The scale of female...
View BookAuthor: Penelope Lively
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Author Penelope Lively
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 8h 35m
When Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Marion has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which is just the beginning in the ensuing chain of life-altering events. In this engaging, utterly absor...
View BookAuthor: Susan Lewis
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Author Susan Lewis
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 19h 11m
When Alicia Carlyle returns to the home of her childhood after the tragic death of her husband, she is hoping to put the past behind her. But first she must come face to face with the woman who nearly destroyed her marriage and tore her family in two - her sister-in-law, Sabrina. Their enmity runs deep, but Alicia is determined to make a fresh star...
View BookAuthor: Emma Healey
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Author Emma Healey
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 11h 37m
Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. She sometimes thinks her daughter Helen is a total stranger. But there's one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so. And no matter who tells her to stop going on about it, Maud will get to the bottom of it. A debut novel...
View BookAuthor: Dinah Jefferies
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Author Dinah Jefferies
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 10h 45m
Penguin presents the audio book edition of The Missing Sister by Dinah Jefferies, read by Anna Bentinck. Belle Hatton has embarked upon an exciting new life far from home: a glamorous job as a nightclub singer in 1930s Burma, with a host of sophisticated new friends and admirers. But Belle is haunted by a mystery from the past - a 25 year old newsp...
View BookAuthor: Tan Twan Eng
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Author Tan Twan Eng
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 16h
Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew up as a child. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malay...
View BookA Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan
Author: Laura Thompson
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Author Laura Thompson
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 15h 50m
On 7 November 1974, a nanny named Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in a Belgravia basement. A second woman, Veronica, Countess of Lucan, was also attacked. The man named in court as perpetrator of these crimes, Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared in the early hours of the following morning. The case, solved in the eyes of the...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bronte
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Author Charlotte Bronte
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 26h 35m
The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's expectations. The novel is set in a period of social and political ferment, fe...
View BookAuthor: Anthea Fraser
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Author Anthea Fraser
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 12h 2m
James Markham's family are shocked when he jilts his fiancee for a woman he met only days earlier and about whom he appears to know very little. Callum Firbank is successful, with a loving family and a comfortable home, but he has always been evasive about his childhood. Jill Irving runs a hotel in Dorset and has everything she could wish for; she...
View BookAuthor: Jean Rhys
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Author Jean Rhys
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 5h 45m
Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece 'Wide Sargasso Sea' was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre', and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress, Antoinette Cosway, meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marr...
View BookAuthor: Hilary Mantel
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Author Hilary Mantel
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 3h 6m
The collection begins in the 1950s in an insular northern village 'scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.' For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out. The title story sees our narrator ironing out her northern vowels with the help of an ex-actress with one lung and a Manchester accent. In Third Floor Ri...
View BookAuthor: David Nicholls
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Author David Nicholls
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 16h 41m
He is Dexter Mayhew, tall, dark and (she can't deny it) handsome. She is Emma Morley, bottled red hair, wilfully badly dressed, all principles and no action. Could this be the dawn of the rest of their lives? Or are Dex and Em living proof that-despite an unlikely beginning-men and women really can be just good friends?
View BookPsammead Series Book 3: The Story of the Amulet
Author: Edith Nesbit
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Author Edith Nesbit
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 2h 37m
When Cyril, Robert, Anthea and Jane rescue the magic sand-fairy from a pet shop, they have no idea of the astonishing adventures to come! The children are whisked back in time to exciting and sometimes dangerous places, such as Ancient Babylon and Atlantis, to search out the missing half of the amulet.
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