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Author: Charlotte Bingham
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Author Charlotte Bingham
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 11h 25m
Before the Second World War breaks, Cheffyns, the idyllic country house where the Garlands have lived for centuries, has already been touched by events in Europe. To the horror of her family, Katherine, the eldest daughter, appears to have run off to join the Nazis. On the outbreak of war, Caro, her younger sister, her friend Robyn, and the maids,...
View BookAuthor: Lynda La Plante
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Author Plante Lynda La
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 13h 8m
Young Anna Travis has been assigned to her first murder case - a series of killings that has shocked even the most hardened of detectives. They started eight years ago - now the body count is up to six. The method of killing is identical, the backgrounds of the girls identical - all drug-users and prostitutes. Then a seventh body is found. The modu...
View BookAuthor: Caroline Lawrence
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Author Caroline Lawrence
Narrator Kim Hicks
SeriesRoman Mysteries, Book 3
Duration 4h 43m
It's late August, AD 79. The Roman world is reeling from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Volcanic ash covers the land, sunsets are blood-red and the sea gives up corpses of the dead. At a makeshift camp south of Stabia, hundreds of refugees from the cities of Vesuvius try to come to terms with the disaster. But then children begin to go missing...
View BookAuthor: Yrsa Sigurdardottir
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Author Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 11h 32m
A young man is found brutally murdered, his eyes gouged out. A student of Icelandic history in Reykjavik, he came from a wealthy German family who do not share the police's belief that his drug dealer murdered him. Attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir is commissioned by his family to find out the truth, with the help - and hindrance - of boorish ex-police...
View BookThe Magic Factory: Midsummer Magic
Author: Theresa Breslin
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Author Theresa Breslin
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 1h 24m
Midden the messy witch and her team of helpers run the famous magic factory in Starling Castle. All sorts of people go there to buy spell ingredients, or for cauldron, broomstick and wand repairs, or just for helpful advice. The Magic Factory Mail Order Service is really big as well - spells delivered to your door any time of the day or night!
View BookAuthor: Caroline Lawrence
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Author Caroline Lawrence
Narrator Kim Hicks
SeriesRoman Mysteries, Book 1
Duration 4h
The year is 79 AD. The place is Ostia, the port of Rome. Flavia Germina, a Roman sea captain's daughter, is about to embark on a thrilling adventure. The theft of her father's signet ring leads her to three extraordinary people who become her friends - Jonathan the Jewish boy next door, Nubia the African slave girl and Lupus the mute beggar's boy....
View BookAuthor: Robert Swindells
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Author Robert Swindells
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 3h 37m
What would you do if you became invisible? Creep around unseen? Listen in to other people's conversations? Twins Carrie and Conrad, and their friends Peter and Charlotte, do all these things and more when a new girl at school, Rosie, shows them a secret: how to make yourself invisible. It's exciting, but it can also be frightening - and dangerous....
View BookAuthor: Rosanna Ley
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Author Rosanna Ley
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 14h 24m
For many years Colette has avoided returning to her homeland - the magical island of Belle-×le-en-Mer in Southern Brittany - afraid to confront the painful memories she left behind. She is living on the Cornish coast when she hears about her mother Thea's failing health and realises that the time has come for her to go home. But can Colette ever fo...
View BookAuthor: Kathleen Tessaro
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Author Kathleen Tessaro
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 11h 5m
Sexy, independent Leticia Vane runs her own bespoke lingerie shop and knows just how to make a woman feel beautiful. But love is strictly off limits for Leticia. She doesn't even believe it exists. Socialite Olivia Bourgale de Coudray has an exquisite house in Chester Square and everything money can buy, except a happy marriage. Luckily, handsome y...
View BookAuthor: Emma Darwin
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Author Emma Darwin
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 13h 25m
The story of the Princes in the Tower has been one of the most fascinating - and most brutal - murder mysteries in history for more than five hundred years. In a brilliant feat of historical daring, Emma Darwin has recreated the terrible, exhilarating world of the two youngest victims of the War of the Roses: the power struggles and passion that la...
View BookAuthor: Valerie Wood
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Author Valerie Wood
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 13h 8m
Ruby and Grace had grown up in the slums of Middle Court, the poorest place in Hull. Friends since early childhood, they had supported each other in bad times and good. Ruby's ma, Bess, addicted to the opium which dulled the pain of her miserable existence, tried hard to be a good mother, but without too much success, while Grace's parents, Bob and...
View BookAuthor: Sophie Mckenzie
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Author Sophie Mckenzie
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 6h 13m
Lauren is adopted and keen to know more about her mysterious past. But when she discovers that she may have been snatched from an American family as a baby, her life suddenly feels like a sham. Why will no one answer her questions? How can she find her biological mum and dad? And are her adoptive parents really responsible for kidnapping her? Laure...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bingham
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Author Charlotte Bingham
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 10h 45m
Sunny's mundane country life is changed overnight when handsome, stylish Gray's Bentley breaks down outside her parents' cottage in Rushington. It seems that he may have fallen in love with her. Although Sunny herself remains unconvinced, her best friend Arietta believes that Sunny is soon to be set on the road to wealth and happiness. Shortly afte...
View BookAuthor: Theresa Breslin
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Author Theresa Breslin
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 1h 24m
Midden the Messy Witch and her team of helpers run the famous magic factory in Starling Castle. All sorts of people pop in to buy spell ingredients, or for cauldron, broomstick and wand repairs. The King and Queen of Winter have a problem - their son, Prince Icicle, doesn't like the cold. Can Midden help, or will winter have to be warmed up?
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bingham
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Author Charlotte Bingham
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 14h 23m
It is Christmas in the year 1913. Kitty and Lady Partita are best friends despite vastly different backgrounds. Partita has invited her friend, Kitty, to stay at her ancestral home, Borders Castle. The grandeur of Partita's family seat is in stark contrast to Kitty's home in London where she and her mother, Violet, struggle to maintain appearances...
View BookAuthor: Ann Granger
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Author Ann Granger
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 8h 24m
Edna, the dotty bag lady who Fran Varady used to see living in a churchyard with only feral cats for company, has crossed her path again. Now Edna is staying in a hostel, spending her days roaming as before. But Fran begins to see a method to her madness and, even though no one will believe her, she is certain Edna is being followed. Who could be i...
View BookAuthor: Lynda La Plante
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Author Lynda La Plante
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 13h 28m
Detective Anna Travis is working on a horrific, brutal murder case that has created a media frenzy. The victim, Louise Pennel, a 24-year-old, single, 'fun-loving' girl, was last seen in a London night club wearing a sequinned mini-dress and a red rose in her hair. In an eerie mirror image of the famous LA murder case of Elizabeth Short in the l940s...
View BookAuthor: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Author Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 15h 18m
Lady Audley is universally adored: beautiful, kind and charming, she enamors all whom she meets. It is not until the strange disappearance of widower George Talboys that her behavior takes an odd turn. George's friend Robert Audley, Lady Audley's nephew-in-law, is on the case; upper-class layabout-turned-detective, he is determined to get to the bo...
View BookAuthor: Jacqueline Wilson
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Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 1h 23m
Rose loves watching videos and is sat in front of the telly ALL the time. So when the video player breaks, it's a total nightmare! But then a very mysterious repair man comes to fix it. He gives Rose the power to forward and rewind her life and then Rose sees what really happens to someone who spends all their time in front of the TV...
View BookAuthor: Mavis Cheek
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Author Mavis Cheek
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 7h 55m
Joan's answer to life after divorce from Jack is simple: happy seclusion. She rejects the outside world and embarks on a contented existence of isolated self-indulgence. But when her nice neighbours Fred and Geraldine introduce her to the roguishly desirable actor Finbar Flynn the walls of the citadel begin to crack ...
View BookAuthor: Eve Houston
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Author Eve Houston
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 9h 28m
There is consternation among the villagers of pretty Scottish borders town, Prior's Ford, when a firm is interested in re-opening an old sandstone quarry. It'll be disruptive, noisy and dusty, despite bringing in some new jobs. Publican Glen organises a protest group - but when the local newspaper takes an interest in him and the story, he starts t...
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