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Life Class
- By: Pat Barker
- Narrated by: Eve Webster, Finlay Robertson, Juliet Prague, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted...
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Is war experience justifiable as art?
- By Anonymous on 22-07-17
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Life Class
- Narrated by: Eve Webster, Finlay Robertson, Juliet Prague, Kieran Bew
- Series: Life Class, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 31-07-14
- Language: English
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A Mother’s Sorrow
- A gripping wartime story of family, hardship and love from the Queen of the Saga
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A Mother's Sorrow is a heart-rending family drama set around WW1 from bestselling author and Queen of the Saga, Margaret Dickinson. Three young women. Two families united. A bond that can’t be broken . . . Sheffield, 1892. Patrick Halliday rules his family with a rod of iron. He’s hard on...
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A Mother’s Sorrow
- A gripping wartime story of family, hardship and love from the Queen of the Saga
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-05-24
- Language: English
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Wartime with the Tram Girls
- By: Lynn Johnson
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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July 1914. Britain is in turmoil as WW1 begins to change the world. While the young men disappear off to foreign battlefields, the women left at home throw themselves into jobs meant for the boys. Hiding her privileged background and her suffragette past, Constance Copeland signs up to be a Clippie on the trams in Staffordshire, despite her parents' disapproval. Constance, known as Connie, soon makes fast friends with lively fellow Clippies, Betty and Jean, as well as growing closer to the charming, gentle Inspector Robert Caldwell.
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Just a nice story
- By Vikki on 22-08-25
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Wartime with the Tram Girls
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Series: The Potteries Girls, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-09-21
- Language: English
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World’s End
- The Lanny Budd Novels, Book 1
- By: Upton Sinclair
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance25
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Lanning “Lanny” Budd spends his first 13 years in Europe, living at the center of his mother’s glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boarding school and befriends Rick, an English boy, and Kurt, a German. The three schoolmates are privileged, happy, and precocious - but their world is about to come to an abrupt and violent end. When the gathering storm clouds of war finally burst, raining chaos and death over the continent, Lanny must put the innocence of youth behind him.
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An epic story
- By Mrs A P Kennedy on 30-05-24
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World’s End
- The Lanny Budd Novels, Book 1
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Series: The Lanny Budd Novels, Book 1
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 29-03-22
- Language: English
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The Riviera House
- a breathtaking and escapist historical romance set on the French Riviera - the perfect summer read
- By: Natasha Lester
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The brand-new escapist summer read from the internationally bestselling author of The Paris Secret! ONE UNFORGETTABLE SUMMER WILL UNLOCK A DECADES-OLD SECRET . . . 'A meticulously researched novel with a perfectly woven dual timeline . . . I think The Riviera House is her best book yet' KATHRYN...
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Amazing
- By Pen Name on 08-07-25
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The Riviera House
- a breathtaking and escapist historical romance set on the French Riviera - the perfect summer read
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 31-08-21
- Language: English
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Till the Boys Come Home
- War at Home, Book 5
- By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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In 1918 the Great War has taken so much from so many, and it threatens to take even more still from the Hunters, their friends and their servants. Edward, in a bid to run away from problems at home, decides not to resist conscription and ends up at the Front. Sadie's hopes for love are unrequited, and Laura has to flee Artemis House when it is shelled, and she finds herself in London driving an ambulance.
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Perfect follow up to previous title
- By Sam on 25-10-24
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Till the Boys Come Home
- War at Home, Book 5
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Series: War at Home, Book 5
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 28-06-18
- Language: English
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Birdsong
- By: Sebastian Faulks
- Narrated by: Harry Lloyd, Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall72
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Performance68
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In the heat of the French summer, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford travels to France and falls in love with his host's wife, Isabelle Azaire. When the world stops, their affair falters, and Stephen signs up. In a maze of tunnels under the trenches, Stephen finds the courage this war demands from the men in his command. And it is here that he will fight for everything he has ever known and loved.
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J'adore
- By JayBird on 08-08-23
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Birdsong
- Narrated by: Harry Lloyd, Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Series: French Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 15-06-23
- Language: English
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Scarlet Carnation
- A Novel (Yellow Crocus, Book 4)
- By: Laila Ibrahim
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance32
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1915. May and Naomi are extended family, their grandmothers’ lives inseparably entwined on a Virginia plantation in the volatile time leading up to the Civil War. For both women, the twentieth century promises social transformation and equal opportunity. May, a young white woman, is on the brink of achieving the independent life she’s dreamed of since childhood. Naomi, a nurse, mother, and leader of the NAACP, has fulfilled her own dearest desire: buying a home for her family. But they both are about to learn that dreams can be destroyed in an instant.
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Scarlet Carnation
- By Amazon Customer on 17-04-22
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Scarlet Carnation
- A Novel (Yellow Crocus, Book 4)
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Series: Yellow Crocus, Book 4
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-04-22
- Language: English
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All Change at the Beach Hotel
- Beach Hotel, Book 2
- By: Francesca Capaldi
- Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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1915. While World War One changes the country, with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men being called up, it is harder than ever to keep the grand Beach Hotel in Littlehampton running smoothly. Waitress Lili Probert has seen her hard work rewarded at the Beach Hotel, but hides heartbreak behind her sunny personality. Her sweetheart, Norman, is missing in action and has been presumed dead, but she cannot give up hope that he may be found. But when she meets injured soldier Rhodri, a fellow Welshman now living near Littlehampton, she fights hard to ignore her growing attraction for him.
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All Change at the Beach Hotel
- Beach Hotel, Book 2
- Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
- Series: The Beach Hotel Series, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-09-23
- Language: English
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Small Acts of Resistance
- By: Anita Frank
- Narrated by: Cicely Whitehead
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Sunday Times bestselling author Anita Frank returns with a breathtaking story of love and resistance ‘Tender and evocative… ultimately humane and affirming’ Sean Lusk 'Vividly captures a time of tested loyalties, courageous defiance and the ever-present yearning for love, safety and peace'...
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Captivating
- By Ms. C. Thornalley on 01-02-26
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Small Acts of Resistance
- Narrated by: Cicely Whitehead
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 20-11-25
- Language: English
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August 1914
- A Novel
- By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts - Translator - translator
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 43 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr...
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August 1914
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Series: The Red Wheel, Book 1
- Length: 43 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 14-04-26
- Language: English
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Spare Brides
- By: Adele Parks
- Narrated by: Tor Leijten
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Hope. Glamour. Independence. A new era has begun… ‘A wonderfully absorbing tale of friendship, rich in period detail’ Stylist ***** With the Great War behind them, four friends are ready to live again. Lydia, a society beauty, has everything – wealth, status and a husband who survived...
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Poor narration
- By mary farnell on 21-06-23
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Spare Brides
- Narrated by: Tor Leijten
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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The Jam Factory Girls Fight Back
- By: Mary Wood
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance29
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The Jam Factory Girls Fight Back is a moving historical novel of friendship set in the heart of pre-WWI London from bestselling author, Mary Wood. Can they claim what is rightfully theirs? From the moment Len came into their lives, everything changed for Millie and Elsie. Both fell in love with...
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All 3 Jam Factory Girls books...
- By Vespatini on 03-01-22
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The Jam Factory Girls Fight Back
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Series: The Jam Factory Girls, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-12-21
- Language: English
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The Hidden Letters
- By: Lorna Cook
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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On the eve of a world war, a forbidden love will blossom in the garden of a stately home, where one young woman will make a choice that will change her life forever. As the storm clouds of war gather, Cordelia seeks refuge in the grounds of her family estate. Handsome landscaper Isaac has recently arrived to tend to the gardens, and the connection between him and Cordelia is as immediate as it is forbidden. Isaac begins to secretly teach her how to cultivate the gardens, so when he and all the young men are called away to war, Cordelia takes over.
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An insight into a different time and war
- By Audible Enthusiast on 25-04-24
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The Hidden Letters
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 02-03-23
- Language: English
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Legacy of Greyladies
- Greyladies, Book 3
- By: Anna Jacobs
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Wiltshire, December 1915. Widow Olivia Hanbury is persuaded by her cousin Donald to move in with his meek little wife while he is serving in France. When he's wounded and returns home to convalesce, tensions immediately rise between him and lively Olivia. But things begin to look up when Olivia becomes involved in starting the new Women's Institutes and is introduced to Alex, an antiques dealer. Meanwhile, Phoebe Latimer is holding the fort at Greyladies, an ancient manor house, while her husband is away at war. But someone is attempting to rid Greyladies of the German internees based there.
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Legacy of Greyladies
- Greyladies, Book 3
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Series: Greyladies Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-05-26
- Language: English
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Two Storm Wood
- Uncover an unsettling mystery of World War One in the The Times Thriller of the Year
- By: Philip Gray
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall211
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Performance191
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Brought to you by Penguin. THE GUNS ARE SILENT. THE DEAD ARE NOT. 1919. On the desolate battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the dangerous task of gathering up the dead for mass burial. Captain Mackenzie, a survivor of the war, cannot...
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Beautifully narrated…
- By Sue on 21-05-23
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Two Storm Wood
- Uncover an unsettling mystery of World War One in the The Times Thriller of the Year
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 13-01-22
- Language: English
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The Sun Also Rises - Unabridged
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Joseph Wycoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Ernest Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, follows the adventures of a group of young, hard-drinking, American expatriates - which Hemingway refers to as the "Lost Generation" - as they pinball through Europe, from France to Spain and back again.
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Beautiful book and feels like a travel guide
- By Aton L Buense on 14-09-25
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The Sun Also Rises - Unabridged
- Narrated by: Joseph Wycoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 08-01-22
- Language: English
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Ghost Wedding
- By: David Park
- Narrated by: Phil Clark
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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When George Allenby is put in charge of building a lake in the grounds of an imposing Irish manor house, he intends to do the job as swiftly as possible and return to Belfast. Allenby is still wrestling with his time as an officer during the First World War, burdened by the many things he could have done differently.
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Ghost Wedding
- Narrated by: Phil Clark
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-08-25
- Language: English
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The Ghost Road
- The third novel in the Booker Prize-winning World War One trilogy
- By: Pat Barker
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Overall35
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Brought to you by Penguin. The Booker Prize-winning final novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the acclaimed author of The Silence of the Girls 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his...
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Superb
- By Anonymous on 13-01-23
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The Ghost Road
- The third novel in the Booker Prize-winning World War One trilogy
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Series: Regeneration, Book 3
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 26-08-21
- Language: English
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The Paris Peacemakers
- By: Flora Johnston
- Narrated by: Karen Bartke
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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As the fragile negotiations of the international Peace Conference get underway, typist Stella Rutherford throws herself into her work and the mixture of glamour and devastation the City of Light reveals. Anything to escape the grief coming in waves for her beloved brother Jack. Her sister Corran is about to put her academic career to use among the troops in France, a chance to see what the experience was like for countless men, including her fiancé Rob.
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Dreadful narration
- By ms E G BENTLEY on 07-05-25
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The Paris Peacemakers
- Narrated by: Karen Bartke
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 18-04-24
- Language: English
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