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Author: T E Lawrence
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Author T E Lawrence
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 7h 52m
Lawrence of Arabia's seminal work charts his time in the British Military Intelligence in the Levantine territories, during the wars with the Turks. The manuscript is candid and action-packed, and was entirely re-written after Lawrence lost the original manuscript whilst changing trains.
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Author Eoin Colfer
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 5h 45m
Meg Finn is in trouble, unearthly trouble. Cast out of her own home by her stepfather after her mother's death, Meg is a wanderer, a trouble maker. But after a botched attempt to rob a pensioner's flat, Meg, along with her partner in crime, Belch, ends up in a very sticky situation. Meg's soul is up for grabs as the divine and the demonic try every...
View BookAuthor: Minette Walters
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Author Minette Walters
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 13h 10m
In 1970, twenty-year-old Howard Stamp was convicted on disputed evidence of brutally murdering his grandmother in her home. Less than three years later he was dead, driven to suicide by self-hatred and relentless bullying by other prisoners. A fate befitting a murderer, perhaps, but what if he was innocent? When Dr. Jonathan Hughes re-examines Stam...
View BookAuthor: Peter Ackroyd
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Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 10h 7m
Poet, forger and genius Thomas Chatterton died in 1770, aged only eighteen. His death was thought to be suicide: but what really happened? Two hundred years later, Charles Wychwood and Harriet Scope become obsessed with decoding the clues found in an eighteenth-century manuscript. Their investigation raises some intriguing questions. CONTAINS ADULT...
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Faulks
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Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 8h 35m
A beautifully controlled and powerful story of love and conscience, will and desire which begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up a post at the seedy H-tel du Lion d'Or in a small French town in the mid-1930s. The Girl at the Lion d'Or is the first book in Sebastian Faulks' French trilogy of novels followed by Birdsong (5373) and Cha...
View BookAuthor: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Author Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 6h 35m
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out 'La Sombra del Viento' by Ju...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bronte
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Author Charlotte Bronte
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 9h 30m
Working as a Professor in Brussels, William Crimsworth meets the fascinating Directrice of the neighbouring school, Mlle Zoraide Reuter, and recognising her as an intellectual equal, becomes powerfully attracted to her. Despite the fact that she is betrothed to another, Zoraide cannot release her hold over William, and tries to stand in the way of...
View BookAuthor: Graham Greene
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Author Graham Greene
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 7h 27m
This is the story of a man who betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity, he takes refuge in a woman's house who persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices.
View BookAuthor: Peter Fleming
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Author Peter Fleming
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 3h
Peter Fleming, brother of the author Ian, tells the story of his journey from England via the Trans-Siberian Express to China, and his subsequent attempts to become the first Westerner to reach the anti-communist front.
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