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Author: Alexander Kent
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 11h 35m
This novel introduces Adam, nephew of Richard Bolitho, and captain of the newly-commissioned frigate 'Unrivalled'. The story follows Adam and his crew as they take on pirates and slavers in the aftermath of victory at Waterloo.
View BookAuthor: Donald James Wheal
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Author Donald James Wheal
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 10h 28m
On the morning of 24th February, 1944, following a devastating Luftwaffe raid, Donald Wheal and his family were homeless refugees with bulging suitcases and faces blackened by soot blast. The morning after the World's End bombing he realised that the ties that had bound him to the past were now broken - a new world and a new fate awaited him. In th...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Kent
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 10h 4m
The year is 1777 when the revolution in America has erupted into a full-scale war. The navy's main task is to prevent military supplies from reaching Washington's armies, and to destroy the fast-growing fleet of French and American privateers. As a junior officer, Bolitho is often bewildered by swiftly changing events, but in a ship of the line, un...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Kent
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 10h 43m
June 1793, Gibraltar. The gathering might of revolutionary France prepares to engulf Europe in another bloody war. As in the past, Britain will stand or fall by the fighting power of her fleet. For Richard Bolitho, the renewal of hostilities means a fresh command and the chance of action after long months of inactivity. However, his mission to supp...
View BookAuthor: Victor Hugo
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Author Victor Hugo
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 2h 24m
Hugo's vibrant portrait of the characters in late eighteenth century Paris is a world-famous story, which has also been made into an award-winning musical. Jean Valjean, an ex-convict, tries to turn his life around for the sake of his adopted daughter, Cosette. Set in turbulent times, this reading by Michael Jayston of this classic tale is a bustli...
View BookAuthor: Roy Hattersley
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Author Roy Hattersley
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 21h 45m
William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away from the throne of England and their grandson, Lord General of the North, fought to save the crow...
View BookAuthor: John Le Carre
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Author Carre John Le
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 19h 3m
In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. Jonathan Pine is ready to stand up and be counted in the fight against this ultimate heart of darkness. His mission takes him from the cliffs of west Cornwall, via northern Quebec and the Caribbean, to the ju...
View BookAuthor: John Le Carre
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Author John Le Carre
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 11h 30m
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. In pursuit of Issa...
View BookAuthor: John Le Carre
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Author Carre John Le
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 6h
A murder in one of England's leading private schools leaves everybody asking, why? One of the school masters finds that his wife has been killed in their home. But before she died, the victim wrote a letter in which she predicts her own murder - at the hand of her husband. George Smiley investigates.
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 15h 34m
Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. Four weeks after agreeing to defend Gerry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, Miss Aldridge is found dead. Adam Dalgliesh investigates, only to find that her many enemies include colleagues, criminals, family - and even her lover.
View BookAuthor: Alexander Kent
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 11h 14m
March 1784. It is a time of peace and most of Her Majesty's fleet is laid up. The frigate Undine is despatched to India and beyond, and even though the war with France is temporarily over, the far side of the world promises plenty of action for Undine's captain, Richard Bolitho. Bolitho has to face alone the new threats of European nations greedy f...
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 12h 39m
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Adam Dalgliesh is...
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 14h 6m
When the body of one of the students of an East Anglican theological college is found on the shore, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Dalgliesh agrees to visit St Anhelm's and finds himself embroiled in one of the most horrific and puzzling cases of his career.
View BookAuthor: Pip Baker
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Author Pip Baker
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 3h 18m
Michael Jayston reads this gripping novelisation of a classic Doctor Who adventure, concluding the 'Trial of a Time Lord' story arc. Snatched out of time and place and brought before the Time Lords of Gallifrey, the Doctor is on trial for his life. While the Doctor asserts that the evidence of the Matrix, the repository of all Time Lord knowledge,...
View BookAuthor: John Le Carre
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Author John Le Carre
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 13h 54m
It is the third summer of perestroika. Barley Blair, London publisher, receives a smuggled document from Moscow. It contains technical information of overwhelming importance. But is it genuine? Is the author genuine? A plant? A madman? Blair, jazz-loving, drink-marinated, dishevelled, is hardly to the taste of the spymasters, yet he has to be used...
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 13h 34m
When notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into an exclusive clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, followed by a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. But she...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Kent
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 10h 52m
March 1814. Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England from several months' rigorous patrolling off the North American coast. War with the United States has not yet ended, but news of Napoleon's defeat and abdication has stunned a navy and a nation bled by years of European conflict. Victory has been the impossible dream and now, for Bolitho, a...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Kent
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 11h 39m
It is October 1789, in New South Wales. Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who hopes to be ordered home to England. Instead, he is despatched on a mission to the islands of the Great South Se...
View BookAuthor: Robert Harris
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Author Robert Harris
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 9h 43m
Set in Martha's Vineyard, 'The Ghost' tells the story of a writer who accepts the request to ghost-write the memoirs of Britain's former Prime Minister. He soon realises he has made a mistake. The ex-Prime Minister turns out to be a man with many secrets.
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 13h 46m
When Commander Dalgliesh is persuaded to visit the Dupayne, a private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, he can have no idea that he will return to it one week later. One of the family trustees has been horribly murdered, and Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate.
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