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The Scarlet Papers
- By: Matthew Richardson
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Lucy Scott
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
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Only she knows the truth. Only he can tell the world....
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Over complicated and convoluted plot
- By Silvine on 22-08-23
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Warrior: The Epic Story of Caratacus, Warrior Briton and Enemy of the Roman Empire
- By: Simon Scarrow, T. J. Andrews
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
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From the bestselling author of the Eagles of the Empire novels comes the epic story of Caratacus: a barbarian who united tribes to raise an army against mighty Rome....
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Scarrow at his best,
- By T G R Thomson on 12-08-23
By: Simon Scarrow, and others
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The Bookseller of Inverness
- By: S.G. MacLean
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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From twice CWA award-winning author S. G. MacLean comes a gripping historical thriller set in Inverness in the wake of the 1746 battle of Culloden....
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Fabulous book, edge of the seat suspense
- By Amazon Customer on 06-08-22
By: S.G. MacLean
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Sharpe’s Storm
- Sharpe, Book 24
- By: Bernard Cornwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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The gripping new novel from internationally bestselling master of historical fiction Bernard Cornwell!
By: Bernard Cornwell
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The Ashes of London
- By: Andrew Taylor
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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From the number-one best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand-new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London....
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Mystery and murder in 'the dunnest smoke of hell'
- By Rachel Redford on 27-04-16
By: Andrew Taylor
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Death to the Emperor
- By: Simon Scarrow
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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1st-century Britannia is the setting for an epic and action-packed novel of tribal uprisings, battles to the death and unmatched courage in the Roman army ranks....
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Excellent
- By Kindle Customer on 07-02-23
By: Simon Scarrow
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The Scarlet Papers
- By: Matthew Richardson
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Lucy Scott
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Only she knows the truth. Only he can tell the world....
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Over complicated and convoluted plot
- By Silvine on 22-08-23
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Warrior: The Epic Story of Caratacus, Warrior Briton and Enemy of the Roman Empire
- By: Simon Scarrow, T. J. Andrews
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of the Eagles of the Empire novels comes the epic story of Caratacus: a barbarian who united tribes to raise an army against mighty Rome....
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Scarrow at his best,
- By T G R Thomson on 12-08-23
By: Simon Scarrow, and others
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The Bookseller of Inverness
- By: S.G. MacLean
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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From twice CWA award-winning author S. G. MacLean comes a gripping historical thriller set in Inverness in the wake of the 1746 battle of Culloden....
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Fabulous book, edge of the seat suspense
- By Amazon Customer on 06-08-22
By: S.G. MacLean
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Sharpe’s Storm
- Sharpe, Book 24
- By: Bernard Cornwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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The gripping new novel from internationally bestselling master of historical fiction Bernard Cornwell!
By: Bernard Cornwell
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The Ashes of London
- By: Andrew Taylor
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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From the number-one best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand-new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London....
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Mystery and murder in 'the dunnest smoke of hell'
- By Rachel Redford on 27-04-16
By: Andrew Taylor
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Death to the Emperor
- By: Simon Scarrow
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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1st-century Britannia is the setting for an epic and action-packed novel of tribal uprisings, battles to the death and unmatched courage in the Roman army ranks....
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Excellent
- By Kindle Customer on 07-02-23
By: Simon Scarrow
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War Lord
- The Last Kingdom Series, Book 13
- By: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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After years fighting to reclaim his rightful home, Uhtred of Bebbanburg has returned to Northumbria. With his loyal band of warriors and a new woman by his side, his household is secure – yet Uhtred is far from safe....
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Fantastic story interweaved with history.
- By Paul on 17-10-20
By: Bernard Cornwell
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The Black Friar
- Damian Seeker 2
- By: S. G. MacLean
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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London, 1655, and Cromwell's regime is under threat from all sides. Damian Seeker, Captain of Cromwell's Guard, is all too aware of the danger facing Cromwell....
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A brilliant sequel to Seeker
- By Louisa on 17-01-18
By: S. G. MacLean
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The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou
- By: Eleni Kyriacou
- Narrated by: Daphne Alexander
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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They say she's a murderer. She says nothing....
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I was engrossed
- By Amazon Customer on 21-11-23
By: Eleni Kyriacou
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The Sunbird
- By: Wilbur Smith
- Narrated by: Piers Hampton
- Length: 21 hrs and 37 mins
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A lost civilisation. A curse reborn. Dr Ben Kazin has only a blurred photograph and a gut instinct that there is a lost city to uncover somewhere beneath the Botswana cliffs....
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Magic
- By Bj Edwards on 30-03-19
By: Wilbur Smith
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Death in the Crypt
- A Cressida Fawcett Mystery, Book 5
- By: Fliss Chester
- Narrated by: Sofia Zervudachi
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Lady Cressida Fawcett is expecting the cathedral crypt to be full of dry old bones. But when she finds a body murdered just moments before, she’ll need divine inspiration to solve her most mysterious case yet…
By: Fliss Chester
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Shadow of the Eagle
- The Borderlands 1
- By: Damion Hunter
- Narrated by: Andrew Kingston
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
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Will Britain take him in... or mark him as its enemy? Faustus Valerianus is the son of a Roman father and a British mother, a captive sold among the...
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Engaging adventure tale
- By Solomon on 27-09-23
By: Damion Hunter
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War of the Wolf
- The Last Kingdom Series, Book 11
- By: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home, but, threatened from all sides by enemies both old and new, he doesn’t have long to enjoy the victory....
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Audible got this very wrong
- By Amazon Customer on 26-10-18
By: Bernard Cornwell
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Survivor
- By: Roberta Kray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
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Lolly has always known her mum was different....
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Riviting could not put it down
- By B. C. Wild on 17-02-18
By: Roberta Kray
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The Little House
- By: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved, bore him two children and made a home for him which was the envy of their friends. It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth’s son and then found that, somehow, she could never quite measure up....
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Narration
- By Kindle Customer on 08-01-24
By: Philippa Gregory
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Lions of Rome
- Praetorian, Book 4
- By: SJA Turney
- Narrated by: Piers Hampton
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
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Rufinus is dead, crumpled at the base of a cliff in far-off Dacia....
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Another Cracker!
- By Guy Richards on 17-09-23
By: SJA Turney
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The Ill-Made Knight
- Chivalry, Book 1
- By: Christian Cameron
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 21 hrs and 16 mins
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September, 1356. Poitiers. The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle. On the English side, Edward, the Black Prince, who'd earned his spurs at Crecy. On the French side, the king and his son, the dauphin. With 12,000 knights....
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Brilliant
- By Mike on 09-11-22
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The Seeker
- Damian Seeker 1
- By: S. G. MacLean
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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London, 1654. Oliver Cromwell is at the height of his power and has declared himself Lord Protector. Yet he has many enemies at home and abroad....
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A Dark-Cloaked Figure
- By Simon on 10-12-16
By: S. G. MacLean
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Master of the Abyss
- Painted Souls, Book 3
- By: Rob Samborn
- Narrated by: Zac Aleman
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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With her husband imprisoned in eternal purgatory, Julia O'Connor and her friends must use every tool in their arsenal to stop Salvatore della Porta from completing his plan of global supremacy through Veritism—the one veritable religion—and save millions of souls from a similar fate.
By: Rob Samborn
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The Household
- By: Stacey Halls
- Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton, Stacey Halls, Sophia Money-Coutts
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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In a quiet house in the countryside outside London, the finishing touches are being made to welcome a group of young women. The house and its location are top secret, its residents unknown to one another, but the girls have one thing in common: they are fallen. Offering refuge for prostitutes, petty thieves and the destitute, Urania Cottage is a second chance at life - but how badly do they want it?
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love that's uts seeped in history
- By kittycatt on 22-04-24
By: Stacey Halls
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Sparks of Bright Matter
- By: Leeanne O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Gerry O’Brien
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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In Georgian London Irish-born Peter Woulfe is a young downtrodden apprentice chemist with a secret interest in alchemy. When he is tasked with caring for a mysterious illustrated book - the Mutus Liber - he loses it to a light-fingered young prostitute called Sukie. Soon, a group of dangerous men are in pursuit of Peter, urgently seeking the book's return, and too late he realises its extraordinary value.
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Turn of the Tide
- The Return of Nathaniel Brookes
- By: Elizabeth Revill
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Revill
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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The thrilling sequel to Against the Tide, which was highly acclaimed by the Historical Novel Society, sees Brookes returning to ride again at the request of the King, when his friend and fellow rider Goliath comes back to England to seek his help. Aleka, Goliath’s wife is missing, stolen by barbaric slavers. Her father, the Governor of Sierra Leone has been alerted to this tragedy and is known to work tirelessly to stop this hideous trade.
By: Elizabeth Revill
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Acts of War
- Usurper's War, Book 1
- By: James Young
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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March 1942: Adolf Hitler is dead at the hands of the Royal Air Force. A vengeful Luftwaffe has exacted the Third Reich’s revenge on Great Britain, and London lies in flames. With the Royal Family fleeing to Canada and Great Britain’s Pacific colonies being ceded to Imperial Japan, the United States faces a stark, dangerous future alone. With a broad cast of characters underpinned by historical research, Acts of War examines the terrifying “What if…” of a German victory in Europe followed by upheaval in the Court of St. James.
By: James Young
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Wingmen
- By: Almond Jones
- Narrated by: Kedren Spencer
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Celeste Bonalee is anything but average. In fact, she's one of a kind - a highly skilled courier pilot with dreams of owning her own hangar. One last delivery is all she needs. There's only one thing stopping her... World War II. When Celeste is shot down over Paris in 1940, it'll take more than she ever expected for Celeste and her dreams to survive in a world that is falling apart. Can Celeste and her wingmen make it back home in one piece? Or will war consume her generation and its aspirations? WINGMEN is the story of us all and the lessons we have yet to learn.
By: Almond Jones
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Master of the Abyss
- Painted Souls, Book 3
- By: Rob Samborn
- Narrated by: Zac Aleman
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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With her husband imprisoned in eternal purgatory, Julia O'Connor and her friends must use every tool in their arsenal to stop Salvatore della Porta from completing his plan of global supremacy through Veritism—the one veritable religion—and save millions of souls from a similar fate.
By: Rob Samborn
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The Household
- By: Stacey Halls
- Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton, Stacey Halls, Sophia Money-Coutts
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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In a quiet house in the countryside outside London, the finishing touches are being made to welcome a group of young women. The house and its location are top secret, its residents unknown to one another, but the girls have one thing in common: they are fallen. Offering refuge for prostitutes, petty thieves and the destitute, Urania Cottage is a second chance at life - but how badly do they want it?
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love that's uts seeped in history
- By kittycatt on 22-04-24
By: Stacey Halls
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Sparks of Bright Matter
- By: Leeanne O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Gerry O’Brien
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In Georgian London Irish-born Peter Woulfe is a young downtrodden apprentice chemist with a secret interest in alchemy. When he is tasked with caring for a mysterious illustrated book - the Mutus Liber - he loses it to a light-fingered young prostitute called Sukie. Soon, a group of dangerous men are in pursuit of Peter, urgently seeking the book's return, and too late he realises its extraordinary value.
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Turn of the Tide
- The Return of Nathaniel Brookes
- By: Elizabeth Revill
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Revill
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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The thrilling sequel to Against the Tide, which was highly acclaimed by the Historical Novel Society, sees Brookes returning to ride again at the request of the King, when his friend and fellow rider Goliath comes back to England to seek his help. Aleka, Goliath’s wife is missing, stolen by barbaric slavers. Her father, the Governor of Sierra Leone has been alerted to this tragedy and is known to work tirelessly to stop this hideous trade.
By: Elizabeth Revill
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Acts of War
- Usurper's War, Book 1
- By: James Young
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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March 1942: Adolf Hitler is dead at the hands of the Royal Air Force. A vengeful Luftwaffe has exacted the Third Reich’s revenge on Great Britain, and London lies in flames. With the Royal Family fleeing to Canada and Great Britain’s Pacific colonies being ceded to Imperial Japan, the United States faces a stark, dangerous future alone. With a broad cast of characters underpinned by historical research, Acts of War examines the terrifying “What if…” of a German victory in Europe followed by upheaval in the Court of St. James.
By: James Young
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Wingmen
- By: Almond Jones
- Narrated by: Kedren Spencer
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Celeste Bonalee is anything but average. In fact, she's one of a kind - a highly skilled courier pilot with dreams of owning her own hangar. One last delivery is all she needs. There's only one thing stopping her... World War II. When Celeste is shot down over Paris in 1940, it'll take more than she ever expected for Celeste and her dreams to survive in a world that is falling apart. Can Celeste and her wingmen make it back home in one piece? Or will war consume her generation and its aspirations? WINGMEN is the story of us all and the lessons we have yet to learn.
By: Almond Jones
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Mr Einstein's Secretary
- By: Matthew Reilly
- Narrated by: Annabelle Tudor
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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All Hanna Fischer ever wanted to do was to study physics under the great Albert Einstein. But when, as a teenager in 1919, her life is suddenly turned upside-down, she is catapulted into a new and extraordinary life - as a student, a secretary, a sister and a spy. From racist gangs in Berlin to gangsters in New York City, Nazis in the 1930s and Hitler's inner circle during the Second World War, Hanna will encounter some of history's greatest minds and most terrible moments, all while desperately trying to stay alive.
By: Matthew Reilly
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The Engraver's Secret
- By: Lisa Medved
- Narrated by: Annabelle Tudor, Claire Warrillow
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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Spanish Netherlands, 1620s: raised by her father Lucas to know her mind, Antonia Vorsterman sees everything that goes on in her world—all the rivalries and jealousies that course through the artists' studios and workshops of Antwerp. Drawn into the lively household of the artist Peter Paul Rubens, whose work her father engraves for a living, Antonia begins to see a life of colour and possibility for herself—until Lucas entrusts her with a terrible secret that will alter the course of their family's future.
By: Lisa Medved
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Whale Fjord
- A Magnus Iceland Mystery, Book 7
- By: Michael Ridpath
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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Iceland 1940. Britain invades Iceland. Lieutenant Tom Marks is a British officer tasked with defending Whale Fjord. He meets Kristín, a young widow from a nearby farm, who has a small son. Tom is smitten. Iceland 2023. Inspector Magnus Ragnarsson is called to the shores of Whale Fjord where the skeletons of a man and a woman have been discovered, both shot with British wartime bullets. Magnus uncovers a web of anger and revenge that stretches back 80 years and forward to a shocking murder in Reykjavík.
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Another Icelandic delight from Michael Ridpath
- By Kate on 22-04-24
By: Michael Ridpath
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The Celestial Guardian
- Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers, Book 8
- By: Gary McAvoy
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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This captivating narrative follows Father Michael Dominic, the esteemed Prefect of the Vatican’s Secret Archives, as he uncovers a remarkable artifact lost to time—Leonardo da Vinci’s most ingenious invention, the Celestial Guardian. Initially heralded as a divine instrument capable of forecasting a catastrophic asteroid bound for Earth, Father Dominic's discovery soon unravels a more ominous reality: the Guardian’s ability to not just predict, but alter celestial events.
By: Gary McAvoy
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Drake's War
- A Tennyson Drake WWII Thriller
- By: Gideon Saint
- Narrated by: Clive Hayward
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
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Second Lieutenant Tennyson "Ted" Drake, until recently a barracks schoolmaster, is on a shadowy reconnaissance trip deep in the Ardennes forest. But when the German panzers burst across the border, Drake's commanding officer is killed, leaving Drake in a place he should not be, with no orders, just a bloodstained notebook filled with code - and a mysterious sketch of a raven. As the Allied defences crumble before the onslaught of the Blitzkrieg, Drake must stay alive long enough to discover the raven’s secret - and stop its catastrophic consequences on the outcome of the war…
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A terrific WW2 military-espionage thriller!
- By Gidlabu on 13-04-24
By: Gideon Saint
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The Bell Tower
- By: R.J. Ellory
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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After a drugs bust goes wrong, Deputy Sheriff Garrett Nelson is left with a limp and, unfit for active police service, accepts a job at a Florida penitentiary on an old Spanish mission. The prison's chapel, a working bell tower, is now an execution chamber. But after a terrible mistake leads to an escape and manhunt through the Everglades, Nelson must decide whether his first duty is to the law or to himself? And could doing the right thing mean taking an innocent man to the bell tower?
By: R.J. Ellory
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The Girl from Moscow
- By: Julia Levitina
- Narrated by: Madison Green
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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1983, Moscow. Twenty-one-year-old Ella dreams of stardom and playing Natasha Rostova in War and Peace at the Moscow Theatre Academy. One day when meeting her friend Vlad in the city, she finds herself in the middle of a protest and attracts the glare of the KGB. Labelled a traitor, she must withdraw from the academy and she soon yearns to escape the cruel and oppressive Soviet regime. However, her hopes of leaving the country are smashed when her husband Roman is sentenced to two years’ labour camp for selling American jeans with the intent to make a profit.
By: Julia Levitina
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The Search for King Midas' Tomb
- Guardians of the Past
- By: Gabriel Drake
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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The Search for King Midas' Tomb thrusts you into an exhilarating adventure where history meets suspense. Follow the daring archaeologists Mark Lockheed, Kathy Rollins and their team of experts as they decode ancient texts and navigate through treacherous terrain, from the bustling streets of the Caribbean Islands to the bottom of the sea. Their quest? To uncover the final resting place of Midas and the mysteries it holds.
By: Gabriel Drake
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Hunters of the Holy Grail
- Guardians of the Past
- By: Gabriel Drake
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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In the shadows of forgotten ruins and hidden temples, Mark Lockheed, a government archaeologist, is about to embark on an adventure that will defy the boundaries of history and myth. Tired of his life among the sea of suits, Mark's world is turned upside down when a lifelong obsession with the Holy Grail throws him into the heart of a mystery that has confounded scholars and adventurers for centuries.
By: Gabriel Drake
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The Berlin Letters
- A Cold War Novel
- By: Katherine Reay
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Ann Marie Gideon, P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical, she’s expected to quickly climb the career ladder at the CIA. But while her coworkers have moved on to thrilling Cold War assignments—especially in the exhilarating era of the late 1980s—Luisa’s work remains stuck in the past decoding messages from World War II.
By: Katherine Reay
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The Gimlet Slip
- A Novella
- By: Fiona Davis, Greg Wands
- Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos, Patty Mattson, Marco Pelaez
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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New York, 1933: America is in its second decade of Prohibition, and its citizens have never been thirstier. Lydia Gardiner is the infamous queenpin of a criminal empire. From her penthouse in New York City’s ritzy Plaza Hotel, Lydia deals in all the city’s favorite vices—illegal liquor, drugs, women—ruling with an iron fist, a cold heart, and a knack for beating her coarse male counterparts at their own game.
By: Fiona Davis, and others
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Bear Island
- By: Alistair MacLean
- Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above the Arctic Circle, for some on-location filming, but the script is a secret known only to the producer and screenwriter. En route, members of the movie crew and ship's company begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The crew's doctor, Marlowe, finds himself enmeshed in a violent multi-layered plot in which very few of the persons aboard are whom they claim to be.
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Very good
- By Liam Wilcox on 11-03-24
By: Alistair MacLean