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Firebrand
- Previously published as Queen’s Gambit, now a major feature film starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law
- By: Elizabeth Fremantle
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance13
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Brought to you by Penguin. FIREBRAND is now a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law For fans of WOLF HALL and the BBC's THE WHITE QUEEN Dive into the Fremantle's vivid Tudor England and meet the woman who survived Henry VIII My name is Katherine Parr. I’m thirty-one years...
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Fantastic
- By s harri on 14-08-24
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Firebrand
- Previously published as Queen’s Gambit, now a major feature film starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 25-07-24
- Language: English
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The Venetian Heretic
- 'The Master of Historical Fiction' Sunday Times
- By: Christian Cameron
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance50
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Story50
In a city of masks, no one is what they seem . . . Englishman Richard Hughes has survived a stint as a galley slave and is now a free man in Venice, where he enjoys a modest life as a fencing master. He believes he has long-since left behind the ideals that landed him in slavery...until he...
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another great book
- By malcolm ash on 21-01-26
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The Venetian Heretic
- 'The Master of Historical Fiction' Sunday Times
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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The Queen’s Lady
- By: Joanna Hickson
- Narrated by: Sophie Bentinck
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance17
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Story18
As lady-in-waiting and confidante to Queen Elizabeth, wife of Henry VII, Joan understands royal patronage is vital if she and her husband, Sir Richard, are to thrive in the volatile atmosphere of court life. But Tudor England is in mourning following the death of the prince of Wales, and within a year, the queen herself. With Prince Henry now heir to the throne, the court murmurs with the sound of conspiracy. Is the entire Tudor project now at stake or can young Henry secure the dynasty?
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Initially promising, tailing into limpness
- By R. Morris on 12-03-22
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The Queen’s Lady
- Narrated by: Sophie Bentinck
- Series: Queens of the Tower, Book 2
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 20-01-22
- Language: English
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I Promessi Sposi
- By: Alessandro Manzoni
- Narrated by: Moro Silo
- Length: 26 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance16
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"I promessi sposi" è un capolavoro della letteratura Italiana scritto nel XIX secolo da Alessandro Manzoni e uno dei romanzi storici più importanti del mondo. La storia si svolge nella Milano del XVII secolo e narra della vita e delle avventure di una coppia di giovani contadini lombardi, Renzo e Lucia, che non possono sposarsi a causa delle mire di un vizioso e prepotente tiranno locale e della codardia del parroco del loro villaggio.
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I Promessi Sposi
- Narrated by: Moro Silo
- Length: 26 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 17-05-10
- Language: Italian
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The Red Queen
- By: Philippa Gregory, Gareth Armstrong
- Narrated by: Emily Watson
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall604
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Performance468
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Story468
THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE COUSINS' WAR SERIES FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, PHILIPPA GREGORY Child-bride of Edmund Tudor, although widowed in her early teens, is determined to infiltrate the house of York under the guise of loyal friend and servant. It's the only way to ultimately ensure...
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A wicked woman wins!
- By Kirstine on 04-02-12
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The Red Queen
- Narrated by: Emily Watson
- Series: The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, Book 3
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 15-12-10
- Language: English
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The Pleasure Palace
- Secrets of the Tudor Court #1
- By: Kate Emerson
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance15
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Story15
Jane Popyncourt was brought to the court as a child to be ward of the king and a companion to his daughters - the princesses Margaret and Mary. With no money of her own, Jane could not hope for a powerful marriage, or perhaps even marriage at all. But as she grows into a lovely young woman, she still receives flattering attention from the young men flocking to serve the handsome new king, Henry VIII, who has recently married Catherine of Aragon. Then a dashing French prisoner of war, cousin to the king of France, is brought to London, and Jane finds she can't help giving her heart to a man she can never marry.
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a book that you never want to pick up twice
- By Anonymous on 20-12-13
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The Pleasure Palace
- Secrets of the Tudor Court #1
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
- Series: Secrets of the Tudor Court, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 19-02-13
- Language: English
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Sword of Justice
- Chivalry, Book 4
- By: Christian Cameron
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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Story12
Political alliances are beginning to rupture, and no state is immune: England, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Milan Genoa, Venice, Constantinople . . . Every mercenary knight must sharpen his sword and prepare for battle. But Sir William Gold has other problems. Just to reach Europe, he must capture its most unassailable fortress. He must also protect his liege lord, the Green Count, from assassins hell-bent on his death.
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another gem
- By edward on 17-11-25
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Sword of Justice
- Chivalry, Book 4
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Series: Chivalry, Book 4
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 04-09-24
- Language: English
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The Darkening Globe
- By: Naomi Kelsey
- Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
Each time the globe turns, murder strikes… 1597, London. When Beatrice’s husband returns from exploring the New World, he comes home with unexpected company: a mysterious woman, and an enormous painted globe. As Hugh refuses to explain who their female guest is, Beatrice’s foreboding grows...
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Amazing
- By Jane Susie Sheep on 19-06-25
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The Darkening Globe
- Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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Lion of the North
- English Mercenary, Book 3
- By: Griff Hosker
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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Story10
The third audiobook in Griff Hosker's incredible English Mercenary series.
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The excitement of the adventures
- By bigreader on 20-02-26
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Lion of the North
- English Mercenary, Book 3
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Series: English Mercenary, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 04-12-25
- Language: English
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False Mistress
- Marwood Family Tudor Saga, Book 3
- By: Amy Licence
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
Thomasin Marwood is one of Queen Catherine's ladies-in-waiting at the court of Henry VIII, and she does not trust Lady Anne Boleyn. But when an accident forces Thomasin and her family to take refuge at the Boleyn family home at Hever Castle, Thomasin is entrusted with an unexpected mission by Anne's mother.
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LOVE THE SERIES
- By Melissa on 17-07-24
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False Mistress
- Marwood Family Tudor Saga, Book 3
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Series: The Marwood Family Tudor Saga, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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The House of Seymour
- By: Joanna Hickson
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Praise for Joanna Hickson: ‘An intriguing tale, told with confidence’ The Times ‘Rich and warm’ Sunday Express Will his ambition be her destiny or her downfall? When Isabel Williams is betrothed to John Seymour, Lord of Wolf Hall Manor, she hopes that love and respect will come, despite...
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Excellent characters
- By Lynn on 05-02-26
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The House of Seymour
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 22-05-25
- Language: English
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The Medici: Bankers, Gangsters, Popes
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Drama
- By: Mike Walker
- Narrated by: full cast, Patrick Baladi, Sirine Saba, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Florence, 1415. Banker Cosimo Medici is looked down upon as a jumped up money-changer. Then he marries the noble Contessina de Bardi and becomes the richest man in Europe. But his wealth and power threaten the Florentine elite, who are determined to bring him down. However, the House of Medici cannot be crushed that easily. Sixty years and many violent deaths later, the family are the unquestioned, ruthless rulers of Florence.
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The Medici: Bankers, Gangsters, Popes
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Drama
- Narrated by: full cast, Patrick Baladi, Sirine Saba, Tom Cullen, Saran Morgan, Catrin Aaron
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-03-24
- Language: English
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The Heretics
- From million copy bestselling author Rory Clements, the iconic historical mystery series
- By: Rory Clements
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall172
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Performance154
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Story156
'Does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom does for Henry VIII's' Sunday Times The fifth book in the iconic John Shakespeare series, beloved by thousands of readers, from true master of historical fiction, Rory Clements. ------------------------------------------------------- 'Sixteenth-century...
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Loved it
- By Barbara Steffensen on 12-02-16
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The Heretics
- From million copy bestselling author Rory Clements, the iconic historical mystery series
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Series: John Shakespeare, Book 5
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 04-03-13
- Language: English
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Sinners
- A fiery historical tale of rebellion and survival in Renaissance Rome - a bold feminist retelling
- By: Elizabeth Fremantle
- Narrated by: Melody Grove
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Brough to you by Penguin. A young noblewoman accused of murder, awaits execution. Imprisoned in the Corte Savella, she has captured the hearts and sympathy of all Rome. . . This is the true and tragic tale of Beatrice Cenci. Murder most foul or vengeance most just? Helpless victim or resolute...
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A compelling and heart-breaking story, beautifully read.
- By Anthony on 13-07-25
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Sinners
- A fiery historical tale of rebellion and survival in Renaissance Rome - a bold feminist retelling
- Narrated by: Melody Grove
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-07-25
- Language: English
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Disobedient
- By: Elizabeth Fremantle
- Narrated by: Emma D'Arcy
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance83
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Artemisia Gentileschi dreams of becoming a great artist. Motherless, she grows up among a family of painters - men and boys. She knows she is more talented than her brothers, but she cannot choose her own future. She wants to experience the world, but she belongs to her father and will belong to a husband. As Artemisia patiently goes from lesson to lesson, perfecting her craft, she also paints in private, recreating the women who inspire her, away from her father's eyes. Until a mysterious tutor enters her life.
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Visceral, moving tale of misogyny in 17th C Italy
- By Ben Kane on 21-01-24
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Disobedient
- Narrated by: Emma D'Arcy
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 27-07-23
- Language: English
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The Drowned City
- Daniel Pursglove, Book 1
- By: K. J. Maitland
- Narrated by: Nathan Turner
- Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance78
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1606. A year to the day that men were executed for conspiring to blow up Parliament, a towering wave devastates the Bristol Channel. Some proclaim God's vengeance. Others seek to take advantage. In London, Daniel Pursglove lies in prison waiting to die. But Charles FitzAlan, close adviser to King James I, has a job in mind that will free a man of Daniel's skill from the horrors of Newgate. If he succeeds. For Bristol is a hotbed of Catholic spies, and where better for the lone conspirator who evaded arrest, one Spero Pettingar, to gather allies than in the chaos of a drowned city?
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The Drowned City
- By Jane L A Bristow on 20-04-21
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The Drowned City
- Daniel Pursglove, Book 1
- Narrated by: Nathan Turner
- Series: Daniel Pursglove, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-04-21
- Language: English
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The Black Mountain: Quick Reads 2022
- By: Kate Mosse
- Narrated by: Yolanda Kettle
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance23
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The Black Mountain is a Quick Read short story from bestselling author Kate Mosse. It is May, 1706. Ana, a young Spanish woman, lives in a small town on the north-west coast of Tenerife with her mother and twin younger brothers. The town is in the shadow of a mighty volcano, which legend says...
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Not my thing
- By Ms S. on 07-04-25
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The Black Mountain: Quick Reads 2022
- Narrated by: Yolanda Kettle
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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Yankee Mission
- Thomas Kydd 25
- By: Julian Stockwin
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance83
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Swashbuckling adventure during the great Age of Sail. With Bonaparte held to a stalemate in Europe, the race to empire is now resumed. Britain's ambitions turn to the Spice Islands, the Dutch East Indies, where Admiral Pellew has been sent to confront the enemy's vastly rich holdings in these...
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Great adventure
- By Gerry Kennedy on 16-05-26
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Yankee Mission
- Thomas Kydd 25
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Series: Thomas Kydd, Book 25
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-10-22
- Language: English
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The Secrets of the Rose
- By: Nicola Cornick
- Narrated by: Janine Birkett, Hannah Genesius
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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1715: With the country on the brink of rebellion, Dorothy Forster’s life at Bamburgh Hall is ruled by the men in her life – her feckless brothers stirring up trouble at court, her elderly father with his dangerous secrets and the man she loves who the world seems determined to keep her apart from. As tensions grow, Dorothy finds herself caught between the warring factions, danger everywhere. Then Dorothy discovers her family are the keepers of the legendary Rose, the talisman both sides believe will guarantee them victory in this deadly conflict.
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The Secrets of the Rose
- Narrated by: Janine Birkett, Hannah Genesius
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 07-02-25
- Language: English
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How to Be Both
- By: Ali Smith
- Narrated by: Katie Leung
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance34
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Story34
How to Be Both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance.
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Evocative and poetic
- By Di on 08-06-25
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How to Be Both
- Narrated by: Katie Leung
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-02-21
- Language: English
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