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Author: Alistair Maclean
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Author Alistair Maclean
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 13h 34m
The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century's greatest writers of action and suspense - an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, HMS Ulysses takes its place alongside The Caine Mutiny and The Cruel Sea&nbs...
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Author Alistair Maclean
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 9h 11m
The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. One winter night, seven men and a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their objective: an apparently inaccessible castle, headquarters of the Gestapo. Their mission: to rescue a crashed American general before the Nazi interrogators can for...
View BookAuthor: Alistair Maclean
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Author Alistair Maclean
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 9h 8m
Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, the three Navarone heroes are parachuted into war-torn Yugoslavia to rescue a division of partisans and fulfil a secret mission, so deadly that it must be hidden even from their own allies.
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Author Alistair Maclean
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 11h 50m
The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast, waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy, lives that could be saved if only the guns could be silenced. The guns of Navarone, vigilant, savage and catastrophically...
View BookAuthor: Leo Tolstoy
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Author Leo Tolstoy
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 3h 55m
One of Tolstoy's most important shorter works, The Kreutzer Sonata presents a problematic view of the relationship between the sexes and promotes abstinence as the solution. Pozdnyshev jealously observes the intimacy that emerges between his wife and a violin player. Haunted by 'The Kreutzer Sonata' over which they bonded; it plays round...
View BookAuthor: George Orwell
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Author George Orwell
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 8h 45m
Coming Up for Air is a moving account of one man's attempt to recapture the innocence of childhood as war gravitates on the horizon.George Bowling is forty-five, married with children, working as a suburban insurance salesman, and desperate to escape London. It's 1939 and the Second World War is imminent. Forseening the chaos it will bring George d...
View BookA Horseman Riding By Trilogy Book 1: Long Summer Day
Author: R F Delderfield
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Author R F Delderfield
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
SeriesA Horseman Riding By Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 27h 50m
Paul Craddock is still young when he is invalided out of the army after the Boer War and he discovers the neglected estate of Shallowford in a secluded corner of Devon. It seems remote from the march of progress. But as storm clouds gather over Europe, Paul learns that no part of England, however remote, can escape the challenge of the times.
View BookAuthor: Jennifer Worth
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Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 9h 45m
London's East End in the 1950s was a vibrant place-a closeknit community of families where children made playgrounds on bombsites and a lively social scene emerged. It was into this world that Jennifer Worth entered as a young midwife. Post-war life could be a stuggle, but there was also warmth and humour. Farewell to the East End chronicles the li...
View BookThe Horseman Riding By Book 3: The Green Gauntlet
Author: R F Delderfield
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Author R F Delderfield
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
SeriesA Horseman Riding By, Book 3
Duration 18h 48m
Paul and Claire Craddock have grown older in years - but not in spirit. World War II is over. But there are new battles to be fought and won. The new property laws enable speculators to reap huge profits from agricultural lands, and Paul's livelihood is threatened. With the help of his family, Paul struggles to preserve the happiness and peace he h...
View BookAuthor: Robert Graves
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Author Robert Graves
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 19h 45m
A majestic and detailed portrayal of ancient Rome and the reigns of the benevolent Augustus, tyranical Tiberius and insane Caligula, from 10 BC - 41 AD as told by Claudius, who, with his stutter and shambling gait, is an unlikely and unwilling successor to their throne.
View BookAuthor: Anne Perry
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Author Anne Perry
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
SeriesWilliam Monk, Book 20
Duration 12h 30m
Commander William Monk: in search of justice, he will not stop until he has found the truth. It is a time of progress, with the Empire's interests expanding and the contentious new Suez Canal nearing completion. Many people stand to gain-and to lose-as the world rapidly changes. When a Thames pleasure boat is blown up with the loss of many lives, a...
View BookA Horseman Riding By Trilogy Book 2: Post of Honour
Author: R F Delderfield
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Author R F Delderfield
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
SeriesA Horseman Riding By Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 26h 6m
1912-1940. A generation fallen. A country that will never be the same again. Nowhere in England avoids the searing loss of young men during the First World War and the remote Devon village of Shallowford is no exception. Many never return and the lives of those who do come back are changed forever. Paul Craddock must try to rebuild the estate and,...
View BookAuthor: Sir Walter Scott
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Author Sir Walter Scott
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 2h 38m
Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe has been banished from the family home after falling for his father Cedric's ward, the Saxon princess Rowena. Cedric has plans for Rowena to marry another man, Athelstane, in order to unite the Saxon people and, he hopes, help to make them a force to be reckoned with - capable of taking on the Normans. As the novel begins, a...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Corley
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Author Elizabeth Corley
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 16h 26m
All is not what it seems at the respectable firm Wainwright Enterprises. When the managing director Arthur Wainwright dies in a suspicious accident, his last will and testament throws the business and family into turmoil. Not only was Wainwright far, far richer than anyone had imagined, but, to the horror of the rest of the family, he has left the...
View BookAuthor: Roland Vernon
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Author Roland Vernon
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 17h 39m
Greece, 1869 Godwin Tudor, a young English photographer recently arrived in Athens, is intrigued by the mysterious and maverick British landowner Edgar Brooke, whose vast estate dominates the island of Pyroxenia. Whilst visiting Brooke's remote home, Godwin is enchanted by the breathtaking landscape and his host's capricious young daughter Lydia. B...
View BookA Horseman Riding By Trilogy Book 1: Long Summer Day
Author: R F Delderfield
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Author R F Delderfield
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
SeriesA Horseman Riding By Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 27h 38m
Paul Craddock is still young when he is invalided out of the army after the Boer War and he discovers the neglected estate of Shallowford in a secluded corner of Devon. It seems remote from the march of progress. But as storm clouds gather over Europe, Paul learns that no part of England, however remote, can escape the challenge of the times.
View BookAuthor: Martin Langfield
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Author Martin Langfield
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 17h 31m
A device of extraordinary power, forged from alchemical gold, is hidden somewhere in Manhattan, primed to detonate in seven days, killing millions. Only one man - a journalist by the name of Reckliss - has the ability to uncover seven keys and disarm the device. But there are others, history's hidden shadows and warriors, determined to stop him at...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Corley
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Author Elizabeth Corley
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 16h 7m
Someone had wanted her to die and had brought her to a twisted, broken death. Now he would kill for her- once, twice, three times-as many times as proved necessary to avenge her death and finally let her rest in peace. Twenty years earlier a young woman falls tragically to her death. The only people with her are four schoolfriends. One-or maybe all...
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