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Author: Dick Francis
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Author Dick Francis
Narrator Christopher Oxford
Duration 8h
Jonah Dereham is a bloodstock agent who buys and sells horses for his clients. As an ex-jockey, it's the ideal quiet life - until Jonah is attacked by thugs out to sabotage his business.Unfortunately for them, Jonah's a man with a steely resolve. He's determined to find out who is trying to ruin him, and why.But staying honest is more dangerous tha...
View BookAuthor: Philip Pullman
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Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Christopher Oxford
SeriesHis Dark Materials, Book 2
Duration 7h
Will is 12 years old and he's just killed a man. Determined to discover the truth about his father's disappearance, he steps through a window into another world. There, he meets a girl called Lyra who, like himself, is on a mission. The second book in the `His Dark Materials' trilogy.
View BookTowards the End of the Morning
Author: Michael Frayn
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Christopher Oxford
Duration 7h
Frayn's 1967 novel about Fleet Street portrays a newspaper world long since gone. Stuck in a sleepy newspaper department, covering nature notes and crosswords, Dyson dreams of liberation and recognition. When a chance occurs to appear on TV, he eagerly prepares to embrace a celebrity lifestyle.
View BookAuthor: Anne Holt
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Author Anne Holt
Narrator Christopher Oxford
Duration 12h 52m
When Helen Barclay becomes the first female US President, the whole world takes notice. And unfortunately for President Barclay, one man takes very particular notice. He knows her dark secret, buried for over 20 years. And not only does he have the ultimate power to destroy everything she's worked for; but he has the ultimate motive. Revenge. Unfor...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Hibbert
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Author Christopher Hibbert
Narrator Christopher Oxford
Duration 15h 45m
Horatio Nelson was a national hero who secured a century of maritime supremacy for his country and became the focus of British identity and aspiration. Christopher Hibbert creates a portrait of the man - at once humble yet ambitious, kind but at times irritable, exceptionally lovable and yet often vain and self-pitying, unswerving in his sense of p...
View BookAuthor: Matthew Sweet
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Author Matthew Sweet
Narrator Christopher Oxford
Duration 13h 2m
It's the Second World War and the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's teem with those determined not to allow Hitler to impact on their way of life. Spies: Meet Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, the woman from M15 who has the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas. Royals: Meet Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, born in a suite at Clarid...
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Paxman
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Author Jeremy Paxman
Narrator Christopher Oxford
Duration 10h 30m
What is it about the English? Not the British, Scots, Irish or Welsh, but the English? Why do they seem so unsure of who they are? As Jeremy Paxman remarks, being English used to be so easy. Now, with the Empire gone, with devolution, with an ever closer Europe, the English seem to have entered a collective crisis of national identity.
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