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Family Ties on Beamer Street
- Beamer Street, Book 3
- By: Sheila Riley
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Peggy and Dar Tenant’s dream for security and respectability has been their driving force since they married. Just as they prepare to buy their own home, tragedy strikes, when Dar is involved in a devastated accident at the docks and Peggy’s world crashes around her. With Dar seriously ill in hospital Peggy’s reduced to scrimping and saving to keep a roof over her family’s head having to revisit the hardships of her youth that she dearly wanted to escape from.
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Family Ties on Beamer Street
- Beamer Street, Book 3
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Series: Beamer Street, Book 3
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 03-01-25
- Language: English
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A Darker Reality
- Elena Standish, Book 3
- By: Anne Perry
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Elena Standish, a young English photographer who works for British Intelligence, is visiting her grandparents' home in Washington, DC, when tragedy strikes. A lavish party is held to mark her grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary, and Elena takes pride in capturing the event on camera, but when the beautiful wife of a renowned scientist is found murdered in the driveway, allegedly run over by Elena's grandfather's car, Elena's world is turned upside down.
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A Darker Reality
- Elena Standish, Book 3
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell
- Series: Elena Standish, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-04-21
- Language: English
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The Longest Winter
- By: Mary Jane Staples
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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When Baroness Sophie von Korvacs meets British painter James Fraser one hot summer's day in Vienna, the attraction is instant. A whirlwind romance follows, with Vienna bathed in the brilliance of the last days of the emperor. And when James proposes to Sophie it seems a fitting end to that wonderful, enchanting summer.
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Thank Goodness I’ve found this Author
- By Jon Lymposs on 24-05-25
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The Longest Winter
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 04-02-21
- Language: English
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The Oyster Girl
- By: Margaret Pemberton
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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May, 1910. The village of Oystertown is home to those who make their living from the sea. Yet social circles soon extend beyond the harbour, when a boating disaster brings Janna Shilling and her family into contact with the aristocratic Layards who own a mansion just outside of town. Recently arrived in town are the Picards, who lead a bohemian existence, their family home a disused windmill. An artist, Pascal has settled in the small fishing village because of its extraordinary light.
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The Oyster Girl
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-04-25
- Language: English
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An Irish Hostage
- A Novel
- By: Charles Todd
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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“[Readers] are bound to be caught up in the adventures of Bess Crawford . . . While her sensibility is as crisp as her narrative voice, Bess is a compassionate nurse who responds with feeling.”— The New York Times Book Review In the uneasy peace following World War I, nurse Bess Crawford...
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Best of Bess
- By rose-a-line on 21-08-21
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An Irish Hostage
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Series: Bess Crawford Mysteries, Book 12
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-07-21
- Language: English
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A Farewell to Arms
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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One of Hemingway's most acclaimed novels, "A Farewell to Arms," narrated by Mike Vendetti. Set during World War I, this poignant love story draws upon Hemingway's own experiences as an ambulance driver. Within the backdrop of war's brutality, the narrative balances moments of humor with the profound horrors of battle. Hemingway, a master of literary expression, skillfully captures the complex emotions of love, fear, and the occasional levity that can emerge even in the darkest of circumstances, offering listeners a deeply immersive experience.
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A Farewell to Arms
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 20-12-24
- Language: English
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The Orphan's Mother
- By: Marion Kummerow
- Narrated by: Sarah Durham
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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As snow begins to fall, and word reaches their town that the Red Army are approaching, German-born mother-of-two Emma knows she has no choice: She must pack their meagre belongings and leave their home, in search of safety. Even if safety is within Nazi Germany. But as the icy grip of winter tightens around them, her four-year-old son—her blue-eyed angel—Jacob becomes ill. Desperate for him to get well enough to continue their journey, she takes him to a hospital, where she hands him to a kind nurse. Then a terrible attack separates mother and son, and their lives change forever.
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The Orphan's Mother
- Narrated by: Sarah Durham
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 29-07-22
- Language: English
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A Very Long Engagement
- By: Sebastien Japrisot
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement is the tale of a young woman's search for her fiancé who she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as "killed in the line of duty." Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.
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A Very Long Engagement
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 24-11-04
- Language: English
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A Schoolmistress at War
- Flowers of Scotland, Book 4
- By: Eileen Ramsay
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Growing up as a schoolmaster's daughter in rural Scotland, Kirsty Robertson has always dreamt of following in her father's footsteps. When her father dies, she becomes even more determined to make him proud. Dedicated to her career, Kirsty knows she can't let love get in her way. She spurns the advances of her friend, Jamie, a farmhand. But she finds herself increasingly drawn to Hugh, the laird's son, whose family she knows would never approve of him marrying a poor schoolteacher. When World War I breaks out and Hugh leaves to fight, Kirsty knows her future is in question once more.
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A Schoolmistress at War
- Flowers of Scotland, Book 4
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Series: Flowers of Scotland, Book 4
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 09-12-21
- Language: English
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The Glorious Guinness Girls
- The bestselling historical novel inspired by Ireland's famous Guinness family
- By: Emily Hourican
- Narrated by: Roisin Rankin
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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'Bright, pacy... Fans of Downton Abbey will adore this, and it would be surprising if the book weren't made into a luscious mini-series'The Sunday Times 'A captivating and page-turning novel about a fascinating family. Fantastic' Sinéad Moriarty Step inside the extraordinary world of the Bright...
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So boring
- By Emma OByrne on 04-03-25
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The Glorious Guinness Girls
- The bestselling historical novel inspired by Ireland's famous Guinness family
- Narrated by: Roisin Rankin
- Series: Guinness Girls, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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The Outlaws
- By: Ernst Von Salomon
- Narrated by: Aaron Waters
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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It is November 1918. Germany has just surrendered after four years of the most savage warfare in history. It is teetering on the brink of total social and economic collapse, and the German people now lie at the mercy of new liberal politicians who despise everything Germany once stood for. The Communists are rioting in the streets, threatening to topple the new government in Weimar and bring about their own revolution.
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Slow
- By Lesley Hamilton on 09-06-22
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The Outlaws
- Narrated by: Aaron Waters
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 18-02-21
- Language: English
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Damned Un-English
- An Underhand Invention, Book 1
- By: Andrew Wareham
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Lieutenant Gilbert Maltravers is bored. It is 1912 and he has been promoted as fast as any in his Dartmouth class and is placed in a battleship where he can confidently look forward to promotion to post captain and a battleship of his own by the time he is forty. All he needs to do is keep a smart ship, polish the brass and salute every senior officer, while wearing an expensive uniform that testifies he is one of the right sort. His father is an admiral, so very little can go wrong.
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Gripping
- By Nay Inglis on 05-05-25
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Damned Un-English
- An Underhand Invention, Book 1
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Series: An Underhand Invention, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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When the World Stood Still
- Heartbreaking Historical Fiction Set in the Time of Spanish Flu
- By: Kate Eastham
- Narrated by: Melissa Vaughan
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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1918, London. Twenty-year-old Emily Burdon has been training as a nurse at St. Marylebone Infirmary, learning on the job as she tends to patients from the crowded poorhouses that ring the hospital as well as wounded soldiers returning from the war. She pours her heart into her nursing while she waits for happier times - peace in Europe and the return of her childhood sweetheart, Lewis, from the Western Front. But when the deadly Spanish Flu arrives in London on the heels of the war, Emily’s faith and courage are put to the test.
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spoiler!
- By Michelle Dixon on 25-12-21
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When the World Stood Still
- Heartbreaking Historical Fiction Set in the Time of Spanish Flu
- Narrated by: Melissa Vaughan
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 22-02-21
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Mankind
- A Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisation
- By: Karl Kraus
- Narrated by: John Bett, Crawford Logan, Anna Ford, and others
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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A stunning adaptation of a First World War masterpiece showing man's inhumanity to man German playwright Karl Kraus's early twentieth-century satirical play about the First World War was originally 15 hours long, but his classic satire The Last Days of Mankind, has been deftly distilled into a...
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The Last Days of Mankind
- A Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisation
- Narrated by: John Bett, Crawford Logan, Anna Ford, Paul Scofield, Giles Havergal, Robert David MacDonald, Alison Peebles, Gerda Stevenson, Finlay Welsh, Sandy Welsh
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 20-08-26
- Language: English
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König von Albanien
- By: Andreas Izquierdo
- Narrated by: Uve Teschner
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
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Salzburg, März 1913. Der Schausteller Otto Witte wird in eine Irrenanstalt eingewiesen, weil er steif und fest behauptet, König von Albanien gewesen zu sein. Der junge Doktorand Alois Schilchegger ist von diesem Mann fasziniert und nimmt sich seiner an. Ottos Version der Weltgeschichte beginnt im Oktober 1912 in Konstantinopel. Das Osmanische Reich droht auseinanderzubrechen. Albanien nutzt die Gunst der Stunde, erklärt sich unabhängig und sucht einen König. Otto und sein Kumpan, der Schwertschlucker Max Hoffmann, riskieren einen waghalsigen Coup: Albanien sucht einen König?
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König von Albanien
- Narrated by: Uve Teschner
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 15-02-24
- Language: German
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Lost Love's Return
- By: Alfred Nicols
- Narrated by: Eric Altheide
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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For fans of Nicholas Sparks, Amor Towles, and Kate Quinn, comes a tale that asks one important question Can love prevail from the battlefields of WW1 Europe, to postwar Mississippi and into WWII? In 1918, in a dramatic battlefield scene on the Western Front, young American soldier Peter Montgomery sustains a severe wound. He’s transported to a British hospital, where he falls hard for Elizabeth, a young English nurse, and she for him. Upon his release, they engage in an intense love affair, forever changing both of their lives.
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Lost Love's Return
- Narrated by: Eric Altheide
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 22-11-21
- Language: English
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The Key In The Lock
- A haunting historical mystery steeped in explosive secrets and lost love
- By: Beth Underdown
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. THE PAGE-TURNING NEW NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE WITCHFINDER'S SISTER I still dream, every night, of Polneath on fire. Smoke unravelling from an upper window, and the terrace bathed in a hectic orange light . . . Now I see that the decision I made at...
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Excellent story
- By C. McCarthy on 19-06-22
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The Key In The Lock
- A haunting historical mystery steeped in explosive secrets and lost love
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 20-01-22
- Language: English
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The Tree of Heaven
- By: May Sinclair
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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The Tree of Heaven follows the fortunes of the Harrison family as the children grow up in the shadow of the First World War and Dorothy's brothers go off to the trenches, while she becomes involved with the suffrage movement, and later joins a version of the Women's Social and Political Union.
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Forgotten but good
- By Fly Me to the Moon on 24-08-25
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The Tree of Heaven
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Series: British Library Women Writers
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-08-21
- Language: English
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Women of War
- By: Louise Morrish
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. August 1914. As World War One begins, two women are determined to do whatever they can for their country. Edie Lawrence has never been one to play by the rules. As war in Europe is declared, she disguises herself as a soldier and enlists with a London regiment, with...
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Women of War
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 17-04-25
- Language: English
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Bat Out of Hell
- An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories
- By: Don Bruns
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, B. J. Harrison, Bradford Hastings, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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The fourth installment in the Music and Murder Mystery series, edited by Don Bruns, Bat Out of Hell is a nonstop thrill ride of engrossing mysteries from some of the best authors in the business. An anthology unlike any other, this collection includes a brand-new Jack Reacher story from Andrew Child, a never-before-seen Pignon Scorbion prequel from Rick Bleiweiss, as well as exciting new mysteries from Heather Graham, Don Bruns, John Gilstrap, Dave Bruns, C. J. Kudlacz, and Charles Todd.
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This wasn’t paradise by the bedroom light
- By Shazkia on 11-08-25
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Bat Out of Hell
- An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, B. J. Harrison, Bradford Hastings, John Pirhalla, James Fouhey, Liam Gerrard, Roger Wayne, Don Bruns
- Series: The Music and Murder Mystery Series, Book 4
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-07-25
- Language: English
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