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Author: Irene Vallejo
Format: Online
Author Irene Vallejo
Narrator Sophie Roberts
Duration 17h 29m
An enthralling 6,000-year journey through the history of books and reading Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and Pharaohs were so determined to possess them that they dispatched emissaries to the edges of the earth to bring them back. In Papyrus,...
View BookKatheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen
Author: Alison Weir
Format: Online
Author Alison Weir
Narrator Sophie Roberts
SeriesSix Tudor Queens, Book 5
Duration 16h 6m
Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times best-selling Six Tudor Queens series, relates one of the most tragic stories in English history: Katheryn Howard, Henry VIII's fifth queen. A naive young woman at the mercy of her ambitious family. At just 19, Katheryn Howard is quick to trust and fall in love. She comes to court. She...
View BookAuthor: Natasha Farrant
Format: Online
Author Natasha Farrant
Narrator Sophie Roberts
Duration 2h 30m
Magical interlinked stories about what one girl learns from talking to trees throughout Time and from around the world. A companion volume to Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror by Costa Book Award-winning Natasha Farrant and Lydia Corry. Trees are storykeepers, witnesses to magic and history. From far away, a girl tumbles like a leaf into our worl...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Cookson
Format: Online
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Sophie Roberts
Duration 9h 50m
Hannah and Humphrey Drayton were regarded by all who knew them as the perfect married couple. However, all was not as it appeared on the surface, and after years of tyranny and loneliness, Hannah could no longer bear this stuffy City broker. The only relief she had was from his absence on Thursday evenings, when pleayed bridge with a group of acqua...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Cookson
Format: Online
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Sophie Roberts
Duration 11h 15m
Catherine Cookson was the original and bestselling saga writer, selling over 100 million copies of her novels. Just before her fifteenth birthday Jinnie Howlett is offered a position as maid-of-all-work at a farm near the Cumbrian border. She hopes this will be a welcome relief from the workhouse she knows too well. But when she meets her brutish e...
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