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Author: Jennifer Worth
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Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Patience Tomlinson, Clive Mantle
Duration 7h 15m
When the Call the Midwife series became best sellers Jennifer Worth received mountains of letters - not only praising her books, but also from people who remembered the world her books described; life in the East End of London during the late 1940s and early '50s. Often her books touched her audience and they felt moved to write, or they wanted to...
View BookTom Trueheart Series Book 1: The Secret History of Tom Trueheart, Boy Adventurer
Author: Ian Beck
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Author Ian Beck
Narrator Clive Mantle
SeriesTom Trueheart, Book 1
Duration 5h 38m
Tom Trueheart wants to be an adventurer like his six older brothers. They're all employed by the Story Bureau to take the lead in any number of thrilling tales - tales which mean they have to rescue red-hooded young ladies or climb outlandishly large beanstalks. Each story is started off by the Story Bureau and it's up to the adventurer to make of...
View BookAuthor: Michael Pearce
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Author Michael Pearce
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 7h 30m
Tangiers in 1912 is an unusual city - sometimes the police are there, and sometimes they aren't. When Seymour of Scotland Yard arrives to investigate a murder things inevitably go wrong. Seymour finds himself caught between the ancient and the modern worlds in this divided country, where tradition is harsh and limiting, and the future crashes in th...
View BookAuthor: Robert Ryan
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Author Robert Ryan
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 11h 42m
It is 1915 and, as the First World War rages in Europe, a talented young intelligence officer named Thomas Edward Lawrence is in Cairo, consigned by his superiors to the Map Room at GHQ. Yet passionately committed to the Arab people and spurred on by personal tragedy, he is about to unlock a secret that will change the course of history.
View BookAuthor: Michael Pearce
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Author Michael Pearce
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 7h
Barcelona in 1912 is a city still recovering from the dramatic incidents of the so-called 'Tragic Week' when Catalan conscripts bound for the unpopular war in Spanish Morocco had rebelled at the city's dockside against the royalist forces. In the fighting many were killed and afterwards even more were thrown into prison. Including an Englishman, wh...
View BookAuthor: Meredith Hooper
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Author Meredith Hooper
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 2h 23m
The gripping true story of Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen's desperate race to Antarctica. Battered by shrieking blizzards, skin blackened by frostbite and eyes burning with snow blindness, these driven men faced agonising decisions and risked their lives as they battled across the high Atlantic plateau to reach the South Pole.
View BookAuthor: Hall David
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Author Hall David
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 11h 11m
Fred is the companion to the 12-part BBC2 series celebrating the life of this great man, which combines highlights from some of Dibnah's classic programmes with previously unseen footage. The book can of course go much further than the series, including an extraordinarily account of Fred's childhood which evokes a lost England and our great industr...
View BookAuthor: Alastair Campbell
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Author Alastair Campbell
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 11h 53m
Emily is a traumatised burns victim, Arta a Kosovan refugee recovering from a rape. David Temple is a longterm depressive, while the Rt Hon Ralph Hall MP lives in terror of his drink problem being exposed. Very different Londoners, but they share one thing: every week they spend an hour at the Prince Regent hospital, revealing the secrets of their...
View BookAuthor: Andy Mcnab
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Author Andy Mcnab
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 11h 32m
December 2001. If he hadn't needed American citizenship so badly, Nick Stone wouldn't have agreed to do this one last job, but the CIA's offer of a new life in the United States, and the chance to share it with Carrie, the woman he's fallen in love with, is one he cannot refuse. The job seems simple enough for a man of his particular skills: infilt...
View BookAuthor: Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
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Author Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 9h 38m
Welcome to Muddle Earth, home to three moons, a floating lake and a perfumed bog filled with pink stinky hogs and exploding gas frogs. Not to mention a wizard with only one spell and an ogre who cries a lot. Joe Jefferson is an ordinary schoolboy from ordinary earth - at least he was. Now he's Joe the Barbarian, fearless warrior-hero, summoned to s...
View BookA Dog Called Grk Series Book 4: Grk: Operation Tortoise
Author: Joshua Doder
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Author Joshua Doder
Narrator Clive Mantle
SeriesA Dog Called Grk, Book 4
Duration 5h 17m
Tim and Grk are holidaying in the Seychelles, but their unique crime-fighting skills are needed once more in an adrenalin-filled adventure.
View BookAuthor: Max Arthur
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Author Max Arthur
Narrator Clive Mantle, Patience Tomlinson
Duration 5h
Max Arthur's new book interviews the families of First World War veterans, revealing how the war affected the families down the generations.
View BookA Dog Called Grk Series Book 5: Grk Smells A Rat!
Author: Joshua Doder
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Author Joshua Doder
Narrator Clive Mantle
SeriesA Dog Called Grk, Book 5
Duration 4h 42m
India. The country of curry, chutney, tigers, the Taj Mahal... and the Blue Rat Gang! In Delhi, hundreds of children have been enslaved. Will no one help them? Does no one care? One person does. And one dog too. On trains and rickshaws, travelling from slums to palaces, Tim and Grk plunge into the heart of India for the most exciting adventure of t...
View BookAuthor: Francis Durbridge
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Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 5h 12m
What links a secret formula for a new alloy, a short-sighted maker of model ships, international bargaining, a secret agent dying in a hotel and a Russian ship wrecked off the Yorkshire coast? Welcome to the world of Tim Frazer, the easy-going structural engineer who gets involved with a secret government department and, to his surprise, finds hims...
View BookAuthor: Toby Forward
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Author Toby Forward
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 2h 59m
Lizzie is upset. Her grandfather is very ill and she realises that he will soon die. She begs her friend Mrs May to give her something to make him better. Mrs May gives her a potion with the warning that he must not drink too much. The effect is startling. Grandfather becomes much younger and more vigorous with each sip. Of course, he pays no heed...
View BookAuthor: Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
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Author Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Narrator Clive Mantle
SeriesThe Edge Chronicles, The Twig Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 6h 11m
Young Twig lives in the Deepwoods, among the Woodtrolls, but he isn't one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he belongs, Twig wanders into the mysterious, fascinating and sometimes hazardous world beyond the Deepwoods. In his travels he encounters myriad peculiar creatures, like his wise guardian, the Caterbird; the Slaughterers, a peace...
View BookA Dog Called Grk Series Book 2: Grk and the Pelotti Gang
Author: Joshua Doder
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Author Joshua Doder
Narrator Clive Mantle
SeriesA Dog Called Grk, Book 2
Duration 4h 40m
Natascha and Max Raffifi, recently orphaned and new to England, are adjusting nicely to their new life. Anything's better than being on the run. Especially being reunited with their little black-and-white dog, Grk, and living with their friend, Tim. But one afternoon, Natascha sees a familiar name in the newspaper headlines. The infamous Pelotti br...
View BookAuthor: Alan Macdonald
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Author Alan Macdonald
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 2h 2m
It's summer and all of Ulrik's school friends seem to be going on something called 'holiday'. Mr and Mrs Troll investigate. Their neighbours, the Priddles, have just bought a caravan, and after a muddled conversation, it seems the troll family have been invited to join them. But when they arrive at the campsite in Wales and the Priddles open the ca...
View BookAuthor: Alan Macdonald
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Author Alan Macdonald
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 1h 5m
After a nasty incident with a goat, the Troll family are forced to leave their native Norway and make a new home somewhere else. Unfortunately they choose the quiet suburb of Biddlesden. Faced with the prospect of 'Baked Beans' for dinner, and the awful spectre of 'The Shower', things are going to get ugly (and possibly hairy and smelly, too). But...
View BookAuthor: Michael Moorcock
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Author Michael Moorcock
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 10h 54m
Award winning Sci-fi writer Michael Moorcock writes a thrilling all-new adventure featuring the 11th Doctor and Amy. There are dark tides running through the universe - so strong they swallow light and threaten Captain Cornelius's familiar existence; if unchecked they will absorb the whole of Creation. But for now he tracks into the solar winds, se...
View BookA Dog Called Grk Series Book 1: A Dog Called Grk
Author: Joshua Doder
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Author Joshua Doder
Narrator Clive Mantle
SeriesA Dog Called Grk, Book 1
Duration 6h 7m
When Tim finds an abandoned and bedraggled little dog outside his house, he can't just leave him there, even though his parents hate the idea of pets in their house. And then the endearing animal turns out to be Grk, the much loved pet of the recently replaced ambassador of Stanislavia, left behind when they made a rushed (and enforced) exit. Tim i...
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