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Men of War & the Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Format: MP3 CD
Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Stephen Thorne
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 21
Duration 6h
At the time of Patrick O'Brian's death, he was half way through a novel that continued the Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin series. In a moment of almost felicity, Jack Aubrey has seen his illegitimate son ably discharging important duties, Sophie and his daughters are with him, and Stephen has a new love. And Jack, at last, is flying a Rear-Admiral...
View BookIndian Summer: The Secret History of the End of An Empire
Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann
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Author Alex Von Tunzelmann
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 14h 38m
At midnight on 15 August 1947, India left the British Empire. This defining moment of world history had been brought about by a handful of people: Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery Indian prime minister, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the new nation of Pakistan, Mohandas Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation, and Louis and Edwina Mountbatt...
View BookAuthor: Alan Shearer
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Author Alan Shearer
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 4h 51m
Prepare to be terrified by the exhibits at the Museum of Little Horrors. But make sure you heed the warning: Do Not Touch! For ignoring these instructions can only lead to trouble. Monstrously terrible trouble... But Mr. Ellis' class don't take instructions as seriously as they should and, after running riot in the museum, the pupils aren't quite f...
View BookDoctor Who and the Myth Makers
Author: Donald Cotton
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Author Donald Cotton
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 4h 1m
Another entry in our range of unabridged readings of classic Doctor Who novelisations, first published by Target Books in the 1970s and 1980s. Written by Donald Cotton. Long, long ago on the great plains of Asia Minor, two mighty armies faced each other in mortal combat. The armies were the Greeks and the Trojans and the prize they were fighting fo...
View BookAuthor: Helen Cresswell
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Author Helen Cresswell
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 3h 10m
Josh and Caleb are no ordinary tramps. An air of mystery surrounds them. Henry is fascinated and tries to piece together what they do and what their strange allusions to ticking and green eyes mean. He gradually wins their confidence and is allowed into their secret world.
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 2h 40m
What is war really like? Here are stories of sacrifices and massacres, of battles fought on horseback and in the trenches, at sea and on land. Find out about the savage school teacher who betrayed his students to the Roman soldiers, the American hero who led his country to independence only to be abandoned after the battle was won, and the footba...
View BookThe Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 2h 20m
Things are not what they seem - turtles, fingersmiths, the Mildenhall treasure, even a man who could see with his eyes closed. Everyday life is twisted into powerful and sometimes terrifying fantasies in these seven sinister, macabre and wholly unexpected short stories.
View BookAuthor: Peter Dickinson
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Author Peter Dickinson
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 3h 15m
The model of the boat that Granddad is making for Gavin's birthday is perfect down to the tiniest detail. All she needs is the perfect name. Gavin chooses 'Selkie' - after the mystical seal-people, who will help you if you are in trouble, and because he might have seen a selkie in Stonehaven harbour when he and Granddad were fishing. When Granddad...
View BookAuthor: Nevil Shute
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Author Nevil Shute
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 9h 51m
Drunk and delirious in the flooded wilderness of the Queensland bush, an old man lies dying, but in his opium-hazed last hours a priest, himself ridden with malaria, finds the man's deserted shack. Either the old man's wanderings or the priest's memory takes the form of a fantastic prophecy.
View BookChurchill: Walking With Destiny
Author: Andrew Roberts
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Author Andrew Roberts
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 50h 56m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Churchill by Andrew Roberts, read by Stephen Thorne. Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchi...
View BookAuthor: Martin O'Brien
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Author Martin O'Brien
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 12h 56m
In a sensual region of France, a crime detective like no other, Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot of the Cavaillon Regional Crime Squad, is called to an artist's retreat in Provence, a luxury hill-top hotel where a young woman, it seems, has been murdered. There are bloodstains, but no body. Among the guests are those who have both means and motive, w...
View BookAuthor: Dick King-Smith
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Author Dick King-Smith
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 1h 50m
When Farmer Hogget wins a piglet at the local fair, Mrs Hogget wants to fatten it up for the freezer. But the old sheepdog, Fly, takes the piglet under her wing and starts to train him up as a sheep-pig. It soon turns out that the piglet has some very unconventional methods for getting the sheep to do what he wants.
View BookAuthor: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 15h 30m
When beautiful Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her `cousin' Alec proves to be her tragic downfall and results in a child born out of wedlock. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 10h 30m
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Dicken's novel explores the terrible human consequences of his ruthlessly materialistic philosophy.
View BookAuthor: Miles Kington
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Author Miles Kington
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 8h 22m
For twenty years Miles Kington wrote a humorous column in which everything was made up and nothing could be trusted. This, his autobiography, was written to those same exacting standards. Was his father really a German spy? Did his mother insist on permission from the Vatican before dancing on Sundays? Was baby Miles the victim of pram-napping and...
View BookAuthor: Martin O'Brien
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Author Martin O'Brien
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 10h 15m
Marc Dombasle is a successful businessman. He was also the captain of the French Rugby team that beat England at Twickenham twenty years earlier. To mark the anniversary, Dombasle organises a reunion for the members of the winning team. When Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot receives his invitation to attend the party he is reluctant, but an old frien...
View BookA Brother Cadfael Chronicles Book 3: Monk's Hood
Author: Ellis Peters
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Author Ellis Peters
Narrator Stephen Thorne
SeriesThe Brother Cadfael Chronicles, Book 3
Duration 7h 40m
In exchange for himself, his wife and two servants to be kept for life, Gervase Bonel assigned his manor to the abbey of St Peter and St Paul at Shrewsbury. Within a short time however, Bonel is dying, poisoned by one of Brother Cadfael's famous concoctions and the investigation begins. The third Cadfael mystery.
View BookAuthor: John Matthews
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Author John Matthews
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 16h 36m
Andre Lemoine, one of the world's top genetic researchers, is on the verge of the medical breakthrough of the century: a link with rare primates that could unlock a vital key to AIDS and cancer research. Part of his quest is driven by his desire to save Eban, the young African boy he has adopted and who is dying from the terrifying disease. But tim...
View BookAuthor: Tony Jacklin
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Author Tony Jacklin
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 11h 16m
It is 37 years since the son of a Scunthorpe lorry driver beat the Americans on their home turf in the US Open - and still Tony Jacklin is the last Briton to lift that hallowed trophy. Coming on the back of his success in the British Open the previous year, 1969, Jacklin's triumph marked a seismic shift in the balance of golfing power, and the star...
View BookAuthor: Anita Brookner
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Author Anita Brookner
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 8h 18m
Herz is seventy-three and facing the difficult question: what is he going to do with the rest of his life? How is it all going to end? He could propose marriage to an old friend he hasn't seen for thirty years; he could travel, he could make a trip to Paris to see a favourite painting; he could sell his flat, move, start afresh. He must do somethin...
View BookAuthor: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 14h 15m
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and com...
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