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Author: Antonia Fraser
Format: MP3 CD
Author Antonia Fraser
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 20h 12m
Still a controversial figure - as well as a celebrated one - Marie Antoinette's dramatic life story continues to arouse mixed emotions. Was she a misused heroine? Or would there have been no French Revolution without her? In this comprehensive biography, Antonia Fraser charts the journey made by this ill-fated Queen.
View BookAuthor: Janie Hampton
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Author Janie Hampton
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 13h 59m
Joyce Grenfell was one of Britain's best-loved entertainers, immortalised in roles such as the gym mistress Miss Gossage in 'The Happiest Days of Your Life', and Ruby Gates in the 'St Trinian's' films. She achieved success as a writer and performer of songs and monologues on stage and radio at a time when it was unusual for a woman of her backgroun...
View BookAuthor: Anita Desai
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Author Anita Desai
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 5h 26m
A young historian travelling to Mexico for the first time, Eric becomes involved in a curious quest to uncover the mysteries of his own family in an old mining town, where he becomes involved with the lives of characters past and present.
View BookAuthor: Joanna Trollope
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Author Joanna Trollope
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 9h 18m
Lifelong friends, now in their sixties, James, a teacher, and Hugh, a TV personality, both live with attractive women twenty-five years their junior. But the age difference is a time bomb, ticking away at the heart of both relationships. Kate's hunger for a life more in keeping with her own age threatens to bring her eight years with James to an en...
View BookAuthor: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 6h
When beautiful Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her `cousin' Alec proves to be her tragic downfall and results in a child born out of wedlock. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose...
View BookAuthor: Edith Wharton
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Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 10h 5m
Anna Leath is a young widow, an American living in France. Behind her lies an arid marriage and a life deeply influenced by the rigid code of Old New York. Ahead lies new hope: a chance encounter in London with George Darrow, her first love, has left her awakened, disturbed. Anna returns to her beautiful country chateau, Givre, to await her future....
View BookMa'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Author: Craig Brown
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Craig Brown
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 12h 20m
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Dudley Moore propositioned her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was in love with her. Princess Margaret aroused passion and indig...
View BookAuthor: Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Author Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 3h
When Sara Crewe is sent back from India to go to school in England, she appears to have everything; not just wealth, but a loving heart and a quick imagination. She is treated like a princess by Miss Minchin, but when her adoring father dies and leaves her in financial ruin, Sara goes from being the princess to the pauper.
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