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Still Life
- By: Sarah Winman
- Narrated by: Sarah Winman
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
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From the author of When God Was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war, art and the ghost of E.M. Forster....
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A gentle story of love and Florence
- By V. O'Regan on 04-06-21
By: Sarah Winman
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The Girls in the Attic
- By: Marius Gabriel
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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The bestselling author of The Designer presents a sweeping story of blind faith, family allegiance and how love makes one man question everything he thought he knew....
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Very Real
- By Helen on 10-06-21
By: Marius Gabriel
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Great Circle
- By: Maggie Shipstead
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Alex McKenna
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
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From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freedom and danger....
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Fly. Fly to the horizon
- By JoolsR on 21-06-21
By: Maggie Shipstead
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The Rose Code
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
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Three very different women are recruited to the mysterious Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes....
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It should have been great.
- By The Curator on 01-04-21
By: Kate Quinn
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The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
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Two sisters. One must be brave. One should be afraid. Bravery, courage, fear, and love in a time of war....
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hreatbreaking and horrifying story
- By Lynda on 17-10-17
By: Kristin Hannah
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One Moonlit Night
- By: Rachel Hore
- Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
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Forced to leave their family home in London after it is bombed, Maddie and her two young daughters take refuge at Knyghton, the beautiful country house in Norfolk where Maddie’s husband, Philip, spent the summers of his childhood....
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An enjoyable audiobook
- By Christineb on 15-05-22
By: Rachel Hore
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Still Life
- By: Sarah Winman
- Narrated by: Sarah Winman
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
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From the author of When God Was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war, art and the ghost of E.M. Forster....
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A gentle story of love and Florence
- By V. O'Regan on 04-06-21
By: Sarah Winman
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The Girls in the Attic
- By: Marius Gabriel
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The bestselling author of The Designer presents a sweeping story of blind faith, family allegiance and how love makes one man question everything he thought he knew....
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Very Real
- By Helen on 10-06-21
By: Marius Gabriel
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Great Circle
- By: Maggie Shipstead
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Alex McKenna
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
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From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freedom and danger....
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Fly. Fly to the horizon
- By JoolsR on 21-06-21
By: Maggie Shipstead
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The Rose Code
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
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Three very different women are recruited to the mysterious Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes....
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It should have been great.
- By The Curator on 01-04-21
By: Kate Quinn
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The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
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Two sisters. One must be brave. One should be afraid. Bravery, courage, fear, and love in a time of war....
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hreatbreaking and horrifying story
- By Lynda on 17-10-17
By: Kristin Hannah
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One Moonlit Night
- By: Rachel Hore
- Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
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Forced to leave their family home in London after it is bombed, Maddie and her two young daughters take refuge at Knyghton, the beautiful country house in Norfolk where Maddie’s husband, Philip, spent the summers of his childhood....
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An enjoyable audiobook
- By Christineb on 15-05-22
By: Rachel Hore
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Mother's Boy
- A stunning novel of Cornwall, war and hidden love
- By: Patrick Gale
- Narrated by: Patrick Gale
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow....
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Id give it 10 stars if possible
- By Waggy From Derby on 12-04-22
By: Patrick Gale
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Three Sisters
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Book 3
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
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When they are girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia make a promise to their father - that they will stay together, no matter what....
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Disappointing
- By Christineb on 18-10-21
By: Heather Morris
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An Ordinary Life
- By: Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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Christmas Eve, 2019. Ninety-four-year-old Molly lies in her hospital bed. A stroke and a fall may have broken her body - but her mind is alive with memories. London, 1940s. Molly is a bright young woman, determined to help the war effort and keep her head up despite it all....
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If you like the word “darling” read on
- By Marion on 15-08-21
By: Amanda Prowse
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The Book of Lost Names
- By: Kristin Harmel
- Narrated by: Katherine Press, Francine Brody
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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In 1942, Eva is forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children escaping to neutral Switzerland....
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brillant
- By jane marie o regan on 10-05-22
By: Kristin Harmel
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The Stolen Baby
- By: Diney Costeloe
- Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Plymouth, 1941. As sirens blare all around, the Shawbrook family take refuge in a packed shelter. Bombs have already begun to fall through the night sky when they realise their infant son, Freddie, has been forgotten in the rush, left to sleep in his crib....
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Great book!
- By Linda jauncey on 05-10-21
By: Diney Costeloe
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A Single Thread
- By: Tracy Chevalier
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiancé and her brother and regarded by society as a ‘surplus woman’ unlikely to marry, resolves to escape her suffocating mother and strike out alone....
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A Rewarding Read by one of Our Very Best Narrators
- By Kindle Customer on 24-10-19
By: Tracy Chevalier
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The Magician
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
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The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction....
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I’m finding it difficult to stick with this ….
- By Gerard on 07-10-21
By: Colm Tóibín
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Bad Relations
- By: Cressida Connolly
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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On the battlefields of the Crimea, William Gale cradles the still-warm body of his brother. William's experience of war will bring about a change in him that will reverberate through his family over the next two centuries....
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The Diamond Eye
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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In the snowbound city of Kiev, aspiring historian Mila Pavlichenko’s life revolves around her young son - until Hitler’s invasion of Russia changes everything. Suddenly, she and her friends must take up arms to save their country from the Führer’s destruction....
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Fascinating historical characters
- By Jan MBarnett on 19-05-22
By: Kate Quinn
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The Tuscan Child
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Katy Sobey
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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From New York Times best-selling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father's hidden past to discover his secrets....
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Very enjoyable
- By BarbaraM on 31-07-18
By: Rhys Bowen
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The Light Behind the Window
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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The present: Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home in the south of France....
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A beautiful Story
- By Debz100 on 08-12-20
By: Lucinda Riley
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Afterlives
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, given away....
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Interesting mix between reality and fiction
- By Leena Istanbuli on 08-01-22
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
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Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....
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Incredible! Can’t wait to see the movie!
- By Lanny 32 on 26-11-17
By: Mark Sullivan
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Winter in Madrid
- By: C. J. Sansom
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
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The haunting stand-alone novel from the best-selling author of the Shardlake series, C. J. Sansom....
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If you want to understand the recent political situation in Spain look no further.
- By Seayeaitch on 09-07-19
By: C. J. Sansom
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Away with the Penguins
- By: Hazel Prior
- Narrated by: Ayoola Smart, Nigel Pilkington, Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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Veronica McCreedy is about to have the journey of a lifetime....
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Beautiful!
- By Countrydweller on 16-08-20
By: Hazel Prior
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Hannah's War
- By: Shirley Mann
- Narrated by: Tamaryn Payne
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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It's 1942, and at 19 years old, Hannah Compton has the world at her feet. But with World War II raging, the country is in turmoil, and Hannah decides to do her bit for the War effort....
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Good book
- By a buckley on 17-05-22
By: Shirley Mann
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The Memory Box: A beautiful, timeless, absolutely heartbreaking love story and World War 2 historical fiction
- By: Kathryn Hughes
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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Jenny Tanner opens the box she has cherished for decades. Contained within are her most precious mementoes, amongst them a pebble, a carving and a newspaper cutting she can hardly bear to read....
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WONDERFUL READ.
- By Ally_G on 07-01-22
By: Kathryn Hughes
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The Dressmaker of Paris
- 'A story of loss and escape, redemption and forgiveness. Fans of Lucinda Riley will adore it' (Sunday Express)
- By: Georgia Kaufmann
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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A beautifully written, sweeping historical women's fiction novel that spans both time and the globe as we follow one woman's journey from simple country girl to global fashion icon....
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The dressmaker in Paris
- By Rose Brooks on 26-10-21
By: Georgia Kaufmann
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A Presumption of Death
- By: Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L. Sayers
- Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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In A Presumption of Death, Jill Paton Walsh tells how World War II changed the lives of Peter, Harriet and their growing family. The story opens in 1940....
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Better than Sayers on her own!
- By Barbara Hembling on 07-02-17
By: Jill Paton Walsh, and others
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The Little Wartime Library
- By: Kate Thompson
- Narrated by: Sarah Durham
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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Based on true events, The Little Wartime Library is an inspiring and heart-wrenching story of life on the home front, and of the strength of courage required to fight for what you believe in....
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Well worth a listen!
- By Vespatini on 25-04-22
By: Kate Thompson
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The German Wife
- Inspired by True Events, an Absolutely Gripping and Heartbreaking WW2 Historical Novel
- By: Debbie Rix
- Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Inspired by a true story, this is a heart-stopping, unforgettable tale of ordinary people fighting for survival in the darkest of times: World War II-era Germany....
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a book review for this book
- By Anonymous User on 08-03-22
By: Debbie Rix
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Searching for My Daughter
- By: Liz Trenow
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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When Miriam arrives at a British checkpoint, she is exhausted and hungry. But deep down she knows she is still one of the fortunate ones. One of the few to survive the camps. Having lost her husband and son, Miriam clings to the hope of finding her daughter, Rosa....
By: Liz Trenow
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Das Boot
- W&N Military
- By: Lothar Gunther Buchheim
- Narrated by: Tim Bruce
- Length: 22 hrs and 47 mins
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Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, Das Boot is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of the Second World War and an acclaimed film and TV drama....
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Not Quite What I Was Expecting At First
- By S. Morris on 22-12-21
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A Sunlit Weapon
- Maisie Dobbs, Book 17
- By: Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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September, 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire when she has the unnerving experience of someone shooting at her aircraft....
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Excellent in every way
- By Wilde on 01-04-22
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Bad Relations
- By: Cressida Connolly
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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On the battlefields of the Crimea, William Gale cradles the still-warm body of his brother. William's experience of war will bring about a change in him that will reverberate through his family over the next two centuries. In the 1970s, William's descendants invite Stephen, a distant relation, to stay in their house in the English countryside—but their golden summer entanglements will end in a shocking fall from grace. Half a century later, a confrontation between the surviving members of the family will culminate in a terrible reckoning.
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Dead in the Water
- By: Mark Ellis
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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The Second World War rages on, but Britain now faces the Nazi threat with America at its side. In a bombed-out London swarming with gangsters and spies, DCI Frank Merlin continues his battle against rampant wartime crime. A mangled body is found in the Thames just as some items of priceless art go mysteriously missing. What sinister connection links the two? Merlin and his team follow a twisting trail of secrets and lies as they investigate a baffling and deadly puzzle.
By: Mark Ellis
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Survival
- A Story of Friendship, Part 2
- By: Alice Weil
- Narrated by: Alex Guilford
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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After promising Sigmund on his deathbed that they would reunite the family in a peaceful and friendly country, they make their way via ship to Colombia, the country Nellie had made her home just as the Nazi movement in Germany was gaining momentum. After their safe arrival, Freddy is forced to look for work in order to support his mother and himself while adjusting to new surroundings at the same time. After some fortuitous, work-related encounters, Freddy decides to not only run his own lingerie business but produce the raw materials he needs himself.
By: Alice Weil
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A Study in Crimson
- Sherlock Holmes 1942
- By: Robert J. Harris
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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London, 1942. A killer going by the name of "Crimson Jack" is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper returned from the grave? Is the self-styled Crimson Jack a descendant of the original Jack—or merely a madman obsessed with those killings? In desperation Scotland Yard turns to Sherlock Holmes. Surely he is the one man who can sift fact from legend to track down Crimson Jack. As Holmes and Watson tread the blacked-out streets of London, death waits just around the corner.
By: Robert J. Harris
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Watch Over My Child
- Michal's Destiny Series, Book 3
- By: Roberta Kagan
- Narrated by: Jeannie Sheneman
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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In book three of the Michal’s Destiny series, after her parents are arrested by the Nazis on Kristallnacht, 12-year-old Gilde Margolis is sent away from her home, her sister, and everyone she knows and loves. Alone and afraid, Gilde boards a train through the Kinder-transport bound for London, where she will stay with strangers. Over the next seven years as Gilde is coming of age, she learns about love, friendship, heartache, and the pain of betrayal.
By: Roberta Kagan
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While England Sleeps
- A Novel
- By: David Leavitt
- Narrated by: John Pirkis
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Set against the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, While England Sleeps tells the story of a love affair between Brian Botsford, an upper-class young English writer, and Edward Phelan, an idealistic employee of the London Underground and member of the Communist Party. Though far better educated than Edward, Brian is also far more callow, convinced that his homosexuality is something he will outgrow. Edward, on the other hand, possesses “an unproblematic capacity to accept” both Brian and the unorthodox nature of their love for each other.
By: David Leavitt
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Bad Relations
- By: Cressida Connolly
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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On the battlefields of the Crimea, William Gale cradles the still-warm body of his brother. William's experience of war will bring about a change in him that will reverberate through his family over the next two centuries. In the 1970s, William's descendants invite Stephen, a distant relation, to stay in their house in the English countryside—but their golden summer entanglements will end in a shocking fall from grace. Half a century later, a confrontation between the surviving members of the family will culminate in a terrible reckoning.
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Dead in the Water
- By: Mark Ellis
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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The Second World War rages on, but Britain now faces the Nazi threat with America at its side. In a bombed-out London swarming with gangsters and spies, DCI Frank Merlin continues his battle against rampant wartime crime. A mangled body is found in the Thames just as some items of priceless art go mysteriously missing. What sinister connection links the two? Merlin and his team follow a twisting trail of secrets and lies as they investigate a baffling and deadly puzzle.
By: Mark Ellis
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Survival
- A Story of Friendship, Part 2
- By: Alice Weil
- Narrated by: Alex Guilford
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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After promising Sigmund on his deathbed that they would reunite the family in a peaceful and friendly country, they make their way via ship to Colombia, the country Nellie had made her home just as the Nazi movement in Germany was gaining momentum. After their safe arrival, Freddy is forced to look for work in order to support his mother and himself while adjusting to new surroundings at the same time. After some fortuitous, work-related encounters, Freddy decides to not only run his own lingerie business but produce the raw materials he needs himself.
By: Alice Weil
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A Study in Crimson
- Sherlock Holmes 1942
- By: Robert J. Harris
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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London, 1942. A killer going by the name of "Crimson Jack" is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper returned from the grave? Is the self-styled Crimson Jack a descendant of the original Jack—or merely a madman obsessed with those killings? In desperation Scotland Yard turns to Sherlock Holmes. Surely he is the one man who can sift fact from legend to track down Crimson Jack. As Holmes and Watson tread the blacked-out streets of London, death waits just around the corner.
By: Robert J. Harris
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Watch Over My Child
- Michal's Destiny Series, Book 3
- By: Roberta Kagan
- Narrated by: Jeannie Sheneman
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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In book three of the Michal’s Destiny series, after her parents are arrested by the Nazis on Kristallnacht, 12-year-old Gilde Margolis is sent away from her home, her sister, and everyone she knows and loves. Alone and afraid, Gilde boards a train through the Kinder-transport bound for London, where she will stay with strangers. Over the next seven years as Gilde is coming of age, she learns about love, friendship, heartache, and the pain of betrayal.
By: Roberta Kagan
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While England Sleeps
- A Novel
- By: David Leavitt
- Narrated by: John Pirkis
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Set against the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, While England Sleeps tells the story of a love affair between Brian Botsford, an upper-class young English writer, and Edward Phelan, an idealistic employee of the London Underground and member of the Communist Party. Though far better educated than Edward, Brian is also far more callow, convinced that his homosexuality is something he will outgrow. Edward, on the other hand, possesses “an unproblematic capacity to accept” both Brian and the unorthodox nature of their love for each other.
By: David Leavitt
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One Moonlit Night
- By: Rachel Hore
- Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Forced to leave their family home in London after it is bombed, Maddie and her two daughters take refuge at Knyghton, the beautiful country house in Norfolk where Maddie’s husband, Philip, spent the summers of his childhood. But Philip is gone, believed to have been killed in action in northern France. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Maddie refuses to give up hope that she and Philip will some day be reunited. Arriving at Knyghton, Maddie feels closer to her missing husband, but she soon realises that there’s a reason Philip has never spoken to her about his past.
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An enjoyable audiobook
- By Christineb on 15-05-22
By: Rachel Hore
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The Midnight House
- By: Amanda Geard
- Narrated by: Caitlin Shannon
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
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1940: In south-west Ireland, the young and beautiful Lady Charlotte Rathmore is pronounced dead after she disappears by the lake of Blackwater Hall. In London, on the brink of the Blitz, Nancy Rathmore is grieving Charlotte's death when a letter arrives containing a secret that she is sworn to keep. 2019: Ellie Fitzgerald is forced to leave Dublin disgraced and heartbroken. Abandoning journalism, she returns to rural Kerry to weather out the storm. But, when she discovers a faded letter, tucked inside the pages of an old book, she finds herself drawn in by a long-buried secret.
By: Amanda Geard
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Tokyo Express
- USS Bull Shark Naval Thriller Series, Book 4
- By: Scott W. Cook
- Narrated by: Dave Alexander
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The marines have seized control of the Japanese airfield on Guadalcanal, but this isn’t the end of their troubles…it’s only the beginning. The Japanese bomb them by day, attack from the forbidding darkness of the jungles by night, and their ships, like hungry sharks, prowl just offshore after the sun goes down. Whoever controls the canal controls the war. The Japanese know this, so they concoct a plan to send men and equipment ashore using fast destroyers—ships that can come by night and leave before the Cactus Airforce or Admiral Fletcher’s carrier planes can stop them.
By: Scott W. Cook
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The Italian Prisoner
- By: Elisa M. Speranza
- Narrated by: Debi Tinsley
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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1943. New Orleans. Rose Marino lives with her Sicilian immigrant parents and helps in the family grocery store. Her older brother and sister both joined the army, and Rose prays for their safety as World War II rages overseas. Her parents expect Rose to marry a local boy and start a family. But she secretly dreams of being more like her fiercely independent widowed godmother. Behind her parents’ back, Rose lands a job at the shipyard, where she feels free and important for the first time in her life.
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All the Lights Above Us
- By: M. B. Henry
- Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass, Christa Lewis, Cécile Delepière, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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June 6, 1944. Allied forces hit the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Among the countless lives shattered are those of five spirited women with starkly different lives. As the war reaches its tipping point, each of the women fight for the survival of themselves, their countries, and their way of life during one of the most pivotal days in history. Now, during the most perilous hours of their lives, all five women must summon courage they never knew they had as they confront the dangers of war alongside treacherous family secrets, heartbreak, and the ability to trust themselves.
By: M. B. Henry
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Searching for My Daughter
- By: Liz Trenow
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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When Miriam arrives at a British checkpoint, she is exhausted and hungry. But deep down she knows she is still one of the fortunate ones. One of the few to survive the camps. Having lost her husband and son, Miriam clings to the hope of finding her daughter, Rosa.
By: Liz Trenow
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Vixen
- Georgina Garrett, Book 3
- By: Sam Michaels
- Narrated by: Deirdra Whelan
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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There might be a war on, but that doesn't stop Georgina Garrett running her business with an iron fist. No one said running the Battersea gang was going to be easy, but her unflinchable nature makes Georgina unstoppable. With a role that requires a ruthless ability to seek revenge and pay out crippling punishments, Georgina's enemies are growing in number. With a target on her back, Georgina knows she must do everything to protect her family. But, with the loss of someone closest to her, can Georgina rise up from the ashes or allow a usurper take her crown?
By: Sam Michaels
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The Beauty Shop
- Heroes of War Series
- By: Suzy Henderson
- Narrated by: Samuel James
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Bassingbourn, 1942: Americans swamp Cambridgeshire as bomber bases spring up across the county. For Stella Charlton, an aircraft woman in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, it’s a distraction from her own troubles as she listens to swing music drifting from the aircraft hangar. When she catches the eye of charismatic US bomber pilot, John "Mac" Mackenzie, he reaches for her friendship. Torn, she feels a spark between them and accepts. As they grow close, Stella, under pressure from her mother, faces a tough choice.
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Wow
- By Dave & Linda on 11-05-22
By: Suzy Henderson
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The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding
- A Novel
- By: Lydia Kang
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Brooklyn, 1942. War rages overseas as brother and sister Will and Maggie Scripps contribute to the war effort stateside. Ambitious Will secretly scouts for the Manhattan Project while grief-stricken Maggie works at the Navy Yard, writing letters to her dead mother between shifts. But the siblings’ quiet lives change when they discover a beautiful woman hiding under their back stairs.
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Another twisted story from Lydia Kang
- By Agniete Kampaite on 06-05-22
By: Lydia Kang
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Jeannie's War
- By: Carol MacLean
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Glasgow, WW2. Despite being shy and reserved, Jeannie finds herself newly engaged to Arthur the day war is announced. Unsure if she would ever get another proposal, Jeanie accepts. But with war raging on, her wedding must wait. As she sets off to work at a munitions factory, she meets Eileen, Janet and Annie. As her new friends reveal their chaotic romances at such a troubling time, Jeannie is grateful to be settled with rigid, formal and straight-talking Arthur. Until she begins to doubt everything.
By: Carol MacLean
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The Bletchley Women
- By: Patricia Adrian
- Narrated by: Imogen Wilde, Antonia Whillans
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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In a different world, Evie Milton would have accepted her fate, married an aristocrat and become the doyenne of one of England’s finest estates, just like her mother. In a different world, Rose Wiley would have married her fiancé, David, established a modest homestead and brought up a brood of babies, just like her mother. But this isn’t a different world, and these women are not their mothers. Rose dreams of a life filled with more than family and duty to her husband—a life of purpose—and Evie dreams of a life far away from her rarefied existence.
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Average story
- By Christineb on 08-05-22
By: Patricia Adrian
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Wartime Friends
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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It is 1940s coastal Lincolnshire, and Carolyn Holmes is keen to do what she can for the war effort. Raised on the family farm, she battles with her mother to further her education, although nothing is too good for her brother. Phyllis Carter, a bitter widow from the Great War, lives close by with her son, who works on the farm. When Peter decides to volunteer, a distraught Phyllis blames Carolyn, who leaves to join the ATS where she meets Beryl. Carolyn and Beryl are posted to Beaumanor Hall in Leicestershire as ‘listeners’, the most difficult of signals intelligence gathering.
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War tome friends
- By Mrs. T. Marshall on 16-05-22