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Author: Philippa Gregory
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Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 17h 45m
Sweeping historical novel from Philippa Gregory the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin's Lover. Set in the 1600s and seen through the eyes of John Tradescant, gardener to the great men of the age. A traveller in a time of discovery, the greatest gardening pioneer of his day, yet a man of humble birth: John Tradescant's story is a mirror...
View BookAuthor: Anthony Quinn
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Author Anthony Quinn
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 8h 47m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Our Friends in Berlin by Anthony Quinn, read by David Rintoul. London, 1941. The city is in blackout, besieged by nightly air raids from Germany. Two strangers are about to meet. Between them they may alter the course of the war. While the Blitz has united the nation, there is an enemy...
View BookAuthor: J.G. Ballard
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Author J.G. Ballard
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 8h 52m
When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But then he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among the victims. Acting on police suspicions, he starts to investigate London's fringe protest movements, falling in with a shadowy group based in the comfortable Thameside estate of Che...
View BookAuthor: Thomas Paine
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Author Thomas Paine
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 4h 37m
One of the great classics on democracy, this audiobook was first published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth - all considered dangerous and even seditio...
View BookAuthor: Ian Fleming
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Author Ian Fleming
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 8h 20m
Blofeld - leader of the terrorist organisation SPECTRE - is holding the world to ransom. He has stolen two powerful atomic weapons and will destroy a major city if his demands for 100,000,000 pounds are not met. Given one week to find the missing bombs, Bond goes to the Bahamas, where he encounters sultry Domino - mistress of Blofeld's right hand m...
View BookJames Bond: The Authorised Biography
Author: John Pearson
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Author John Pearson
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 10h 44m
James Bond has graced our bookshelves for over fifty years. The martini-drinking, super-smooth character has become an icon and a national treasure. John Pearson assumed that James Bond was no more than a figment of Ian Fleming's imagination but soon began to have doubts, doubts which were soon reaching such a pitch that the British secret service...
View BookAuthor: Ian Fleming
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Author Ian Fleming
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 6h 43m
Shattered by the death of his wife at the hands of Blofeld, Bond has gone to pieces. Unwilling to accept the loss of one of his best men, M sends Bond to Japan for one last, near-impossible mission. But Japan proves to be Bond's downfall, leading him to a mysterious residence known as the 'Castle of Death' where he encounters an old enemy revitalis...
View BookAuthor: Susan Cooper
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Author Susan Cooper
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 4h 51m
After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve year old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a Boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes. When this ancient invisible mischief maker meets hi-tech for the first time, he creates cha...
View BookAuthor: Diarmaid Macculloch
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Author Diarmaid Macculloch
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 26h 38m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Cromwell by Diarmid MacCulloch, read by David Rintoul. Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offic...
View BookAuthor: Robert Harris
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Author Robert Harris
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 12h 54m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Selling Hitler by Robert Harris, read by David Rintoul. Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private diaries of Adolf Hitler.What followed was a fiasco of...
View BookAuthor: Frederick Forsyth
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Author Frederick Forsyth
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 13h 8m
One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the O. A. S., to assassinate General de Gaulle.
View BookAuthor: Mary Shelley
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Author Mary Shelley
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 2h 22m
Victor Frankenstein decides to build a `man' from assembled body parts stolen from corpses. He becomes obsessed with his 'project' and believes that he is pioneering scientific discovery - without considering the potential consequences. What results, of course, is a `monster', who looks grotesque and frightens any living soul who ever comes into co...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series Book 9: Bertie's Guide To Life and Mothers
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Alexander Mccall Smith
Narrator David Rintoul
Series44 Scotland Street, Book 9
Duration 8h 45m
As summer blooms in Edinburgh's gardens and Bertie Pollock's birthday appears on the horizon, all at 44 Scotland Street is not cake and sunshine. Newlywed Angus Lordie has been booked by his bride into what he must not call the loony bin; Bruce's first encounter with hot wax brings more anguish than he bargained for; and Bertie's birthday dreams of...
View BookAuthor: Karin Fossum
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Author Karin Fossum
Narrator David Rintoul
SeriesInspector Sejer, Book 5
Duration 9h 32m
Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride is due to join him, he is called to the hospital to his sister's bedside. The local taxi driver sent instead to meet the bride at the airport returns...
View BookAuthor: Karin Fossum
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Author Karin Fossum
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 9h 11m
Beneath the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the children run in and out of one another's houses and play unafraid in the streets. But the sleepy village is like a pond through which not enough water runs - beneath the surface it is beginning to stagnate. When a naked body is found by the lake at the top of the mountain, its seem...
View BookAuthor: Ian Fleming
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Author Ian Fleming
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 7h 5m
There is intrigue at M's exclusive gambling club 'Blades' on Park Lane where Sir Hugo Drax, a multi-millionaire business tycoon, revered by the British public because of his Moonraker missile defence programme, has been accruing millions of pounds at the Poker table. Why would Drax wish to make more money? How could he be achieving such success aga...
View BookAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 7h 46m
When the naive David Balfour sets out on his quest for a long-lost relative, a terrifying chain of events is set in motion. He is plunged into a world of infamy and violence from which there seems no escape, until, that is, he meets the enigmatic and valiant Highlander, Alan Breck...Kidnapped is a captivating novel set around Scottish events of the...
View BookAuthor: J.G. Ballard
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Author J.G. Ballard
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 9h 16m
Richard Pearson, unemployed advertising executive and life-long rebel, is driving out to Brooklands, a motorway town on the M25. A few weeks earlier his father was fatally wounded at the Metro-Centre, a vast shopping mall in the centre of this apparently peaceful town, when a deranged mental patient opened fire on a crowd of shoppers. When the main...
View BookHow To Be Smart With Your Money
Author: Duncan Bannatyne
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Author Duncan Bannatyne
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 3h 30m
A book aimed at everyone who wants to be smarter with their cash. Told in Duncan's straightforward style, he explains the forces and choices that influence how much we have in our pockets. Today's turmoil in the financial markets illustrates how important it is to be in control of your money. This book addresses the core fundamentals of financial l...
View BookAuthor: Robert Goddard
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Author Robert Goddard
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 9h 33m
One unremarkable winter morning, civil servant Richard Eusden is on his way to work in London when he is intercepted by his ex-wife, Gemma. She has sad news of his old friend, her other ex-husband, Marty Hewitson. Marty is dying, but needs one last favour done for him now, today, at once. Eusden reluctantly agrees. But what should be a simple erran...
View BookAuthor: Douglas Reeman
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Author Douglas Reeman
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 10h 58m
HMS 'Temeraire' is the latest, most advanced nuclear submarine in the British fleet. Her trials are cut short and she is ordered to the Far East to reinforce the fleet against a threat from Red China. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE/ADULT THEMES.
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