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Author: Claire North
Series: The Songs of Penelope, Book 1
Author Claire North
Narrator Catrin Walker-Booth
SeriesThe Songs of Penelope, Book 1
Duration 12h 32m
Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the isle of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom. Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now, years on, speculation...
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Author: Claire North
Series: The Songs of Penelope, Book 2
Author Claire North
Narrator Catrin Walker-Booth
SeriesThe Songs of Penelope, Book 2
Duration 14h 12m
On the isle of Ithaca, Queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband, Odysseus, sailed to war with Troy and never came home. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep the peace - but this is shattered by the arrival of Orestes, king of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra. Orestes's hands are stained with...
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Author: Claire North
Series: The Songs of Penelope, Book 3
Author Claire North
Narrator Catrin Walker-Booth
SeriesThe Songs of Penelope, Book 3
Duration 13h 16m
Many years ago, Odysseus sailed to war and never returned. For twenty years his wife Penelope and the women of Ithaca have guarded the isle against suitors and rival kings. But peace cannot be kept forever, and the balance of power is about to break . . . A beggar has arrived at the Palace. Salt-crusted and ocean-battered, he is scorned by the suit...
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Author: Angela Thirkell
Author Angela Thirkell
Narrator Catrin Walker-Booth
Duration 11h 39m
Change is in the air in Barsetshire. The country may have a new queen, but Greshambury has a new rector, Canon Fewling, and a returned prodigal daughter: the beautiful, frivolous Rose Fairweather. But for lonely Margot Phelps, caring for her elderly parents in Jutland Cottage, the future holds little promise - until a group of benevolent neighbours...
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Author: Angela Thirkell
Author Angela Thirkell
Narrator Catrin Walker-Booth
Duration 13h 17m
The county of Barsetshire is aflutter with preparations. With the wedding of Lucy Marling and Sam Adams fast approaching, and Lucy's brother Oliver brooding over his ill-fated tendre for glamorous Jessica Dean, Mrs Marling calls for reinforcements. Help arrives in the form of charming writer Isabel Dale, still mourning the loss of her fiancé...
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Author: Molly O'Neill
Author Molly O'Neill
Narrator Catrin Walker-Booth
Duration 11h 3m
Beneath the still surface of a lake lurks a monster with needle sharp teeth. Hungry and ready to pounce . . . Jenny Greenteeth has never spoken to a human before, but when a witch is thrown into her lake by an angry mob, something makes Jenny decide she's worth saving. Temperance doesn't know why her village has suddenly turned against her, only th...
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Author: Joanne Burn
Author Joanne Burn
Narrator Catrin Walker-Booth
Duration 9h 39m
In 1824, Lyme Regis is as tumultuous as the sea that surrounds it. When twenty-four-year-old Ada Winters - poor, peculiar and brilliant - uncovers a set of unusual fossils on the cliffs, she believes she has found the answer to her scientific frustrations and her family's financial struggles. Meanwhile, Doctor Edwin Moyle has come to Dorset in sear...
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