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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 BookFalse Impression: Abbott Agency Book 9
Author: Veronica Heley
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Author Veronica Heley
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 9h
Bea Abbot's friend Leon Holland has asked for her help in establishing an alibi. But why would he need one? First, he tells her, he had a narrow escape from being run down in the road, and then he was lured with a mysterious message to a car park to meet someone who didn't turn up.
View BookMurder by the Barrel: Libby Sarjeant Book 18
Author: Lesley Cookman
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Author Lesley Cookman
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 7h 30m
When the sleepy village of Steeple Martin announces its first beer festival, the locals are excited. Beer, sun and music, what could possibly go wrong? But when an unexpected death shakes the village, it's up to Libby Sarjeant to solve the puzzle. Was it just another rock star death or is there something more sinister afoot?
View BookMurder in the Blood: Libby Sarjeant Book 15
Author: Lesley Cookman
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Author Lesley Cookman
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 9h
Libby and friends are taking a well-earned holiday at a village on the Turkish coast, but despite their best intentions it seems that murder has even followed them there. When out on a boat trip they discover a body, but at first it has nothing to do with them, for once... until they find out that the deceased was English and so are the suspects....
View BookFalse Wall: Abbott Agency Book 10
Author: Veronica Heley
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Author Veronica Heley
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 9h
When the party wall dividing the gardens of Bea Abbot and her fiancé Leon collapses, amongst the ensuing chaos a human skeleton is unearthed in Leon's garden. Having only just purchased the property, Leon and Bea set out to discover more about the house's previous owners. Before they can proceed in their investigation however, the pair fall...
View BookFalse Pride: Abbott Agency Book 12
Author: Veronica Heley
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Author Veronica Heley
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 8h 30m
Looking forward to a peaceful weekend, Bea Abbot's plans are disrupted by the unexpected arrival of one of her clients, bearing a brown leather briefcase full of expensive jewellery. Magda Summerleys has been working as a housekeeper for wealthy art expert Lucas Rycroft who, she says, entrusted her with the briefcase for safekeeping - and who seems...
View BookMurder on the Run: Libby Sarjeant Book 17
Author: Lesley Cookman
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Author Lesley Cookman
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 8h
The world of running is completely alien to Libby Sarjeant and her friend Fran Wolfe, but when Libby's son Adam and Fran's stepdaughter Sophie join the Nethergate Harriers, they have to take an interest. And when one of the runners goes missing in the middle of the Nethergate 5K, their sleuth senses kick in!It's not long before a body is found - an...
View BookMurder Dancing: Libby Sarjeant Book 16
Author: Lesley Cookman
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Author Lesley Cookman
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 8h
Max Tobin brings his all-male dance company to Steeple Martin with his new ballet Pendle, based on the infamous Pendle Witch Trials, due to be performed at the Oast Theatre. There have been unpleasant incidents during rehearsals in London, and Max asks Libby Sarjeant and her friend Fran Wolfe to look into them. To everyone's surprise, the seriousne...
View BookMurder Out of Tune: Libby Sarjeant Book 14
Author: Lesley Cookman
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Author Lesley Cookman
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 8h
A member of a local ukulele group is found dead in Steeple Martin's churchyard. Libby's first reaction is relief that the victim isn't anyone she knows. She and the usual suspects have other things to occupy them as they are gearing up for a Christmas concert and pantomime in the Oast Theatre; but when Libby's cousin gets romantically involved wi...
View BookFalse Diamond: Abbott Agency Book 8
Author: Veronica Heley
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Author Veronica Heley
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 9h
The fake diamond in Dilys Holland's engagement ring implies that all is not well with her marriage. And Bea Abbot has already clashed with Dilys's husband, the bullying Benton, when she refuses to help him rescue his ailing company. But matters are about to turn a great deal worse when Dilys tries to commit suicide. Or does she? &n...
View BookIn the Family Way: Illegitimacy Between the Great War and the Swinging Sixties
Author: Jane Robinson
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Author Jane Robinson
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 10h 50m
Unmarried mothers, absent fathers, orphaned children - Jane Robinson's In the Family Way is a truly gripping book about long-buried secrets, family bonds and unlikely heroes. Only a generation or two ago, illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a family. Unmarried mothers were considered immoral, single fath...
View BookFalse Fire: Abbott Agency Book 11
Author: Veronica Heley
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Author Veronica Heley
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 8h 30m
When attending a birthday dinner, Bea Abbot doesn't anticipate that the evening will end with death. A curtain goes up in flames and two people are rushed to hospital. Bea looks for two girls. Was the fire started deliberately and were the girls the intended targets? As Bea investigates, she is drawn into a world rich in money but lacking in love.
View BookAuthor: Penny Jordan
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Author Penny Jordan
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 6h
After travelling the world with her parents, Lisa yearned for stability, roots and tradition. Marriage to solid, dependable Henry would help her achieve this ambition, but first she had to meet his parents! Christmas in the snow-bound Yorkshire Dales should have been a joyous occasion, but Henry’s family home was as cold and chill as his mot...
View BookAuthor: Gladys Mitchell
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Author Gladys Mitchell
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 10h 10m
When former banana-grower Edris Tidson hears of the possible sighting of a water-naiad he insists that his wife, her aunt Prissie and Prissie's young ward Connie, travel with him to Winchester in search of the nymph. As tensions rise between Connie and Edris, Prissie invites the renowned psychoanalyst, and unrivalled detective, Mrs Bradley to join...
View BookAuthor: Mavis Doriel Hay
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Author Mavis Doriel Hay
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 8h 4m
For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society of undergraduates meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon only to find the drowned body of the college...
View BookAuthor: Mavis Doriel Hay
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Author Mavis Doriel Hay
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 8h 17m
It's 1934. When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station, her fellow boarders in the Frampton Hotel are not overwhelmed with grief at the death of a tiresome old woman. But they all have their theories about the identity of the murderer and help to unravel the mystery of who killed the wealthy 'Pongle'. Several of her...
View BookAuthor: Ruth Goodman
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Author Ruth Goodman
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 11h 13m
The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the historical dramas of the times, what was life really like for a commoner? To answer this question, the renowned 'method historian' Ruth Goodman has slept, washed and cooked as the Tudors did. She is your expert guide to this fascinating era, drawing...
View BookAuthor: Jane Robinson
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Author Jane Robinson
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 8h 30m
Everyone knows three things about the Women’s Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. About 215,000 women in the UK belong to the WI. Their membership crosses class and has recently begun to recruit huge numbers of young women. It was foun...
View BookTalking About Detective Fiction
Author: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 4h 41m
From the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the rise of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham, P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to bear on this personal history of the genre. There are chapters on great American crime writers...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Gaskell
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Author Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 27h 32m
When her father remarries, the honest, innocent Molly Gibson suddenly finds herself with a new stepsister, Cynthia, who is beautiful, worldly and impetuous. This would be more than enough to deal with, but the new wife is the deeply snobbish (and darkly secretive) Hyacinth. Thwarted love, scheming ambition and small-town gossip underlie the warmth,...
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.
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