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The Captive Queen of Scots
- By: Jean Plaidy
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Scotland has been torn apart by civil war, and the young and passionate Catholic Mary Queen of Scots is in the hands of her enemies. Under duress, Mary abdicates in favour of her son, James VI, and flees to England for safety, boldly seeking refuge with her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. But Elizabeth has never trusted the ambitious Catholic queen and has Mary imprisoned.
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Chock full of facts!
- By Aapjebaapje on 30-07-15
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The Captive Queen of Scots
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Series: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Book 2
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 08-04-08
- Language: English
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The Tiger's Last Roar
- The Life of William Culpepper, Book 2
- By: Anthony Morland
- Narrated by: Simon de Deney
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In the heat and dust of 18th-century India, the young British officer William Culpepper faces his first true test of command. When a Company supply convoy vanishes into the thorn-choked hills beyond Madras, it sparks a chain of events that will plunge Culpepper into the brutal heart of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War. In this conflict, courage, discipline, and fate collide beneath an unforgiving sun. As Mysorean cavalry prowl the jungles, William must lead his men through ambush, intrigue, and betrayal.
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The Tiger's Last Roar
- The Life of William Culpepper, Book 2
- Narrated by: Simon de Deney
- Series: The Life of William Culpepper, Book 2
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 28-04-26
- Language: English
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A Little Trickerie
- Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025
- By: Rosanna Pike
- Narrated by: Laura Aikman
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance60
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Brought to you by Penguin. Listen. My one-time friend Maria did tell me once: "Make your own paradise, Tibb, since this world is no sweet place for people like us." Born a vagabond, Tibb Ingleby has never had a roof of her own. But her mother has taught her that if you're not too bound by the...
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Wonderful!
- By Anonymous on 13-01-26
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A Little Trickerie
- Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025
- Narrated by: Laura Aikman
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-08-24
- Language: English
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Tyrant
- The Ruthless Rise of Roman Emperor Nero, The Sunday Times Bestselling Series Continues
- By: Conn Iggulden
- Narrated by: Lydia Leonard
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance62
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Brought to you by Penguin. Travel to the heart of a Roman dynasty beset by power struggles and betrayal in this latest chapter of the tale of Nero. The boy Nero lives. His mother Agrippina has married her way to power, tangling the Emperor Claudius in her skirts. The emperor may have a son and...
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Let Down By Narrator
- By David Brown on 01-03-26
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Tyrant
- The Ruthless Rise of Roman Emperor Nero, The Sunday Times Bestselling Series Continues
- Narrated by: Lydia Leonard
- Series: The Nero Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 22-05-25
- Language: English
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Plantagenet Princess, Tudor Queen
- The Story of Elizabeth of York
- By: Samantha Wilcoxson
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance25
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Story26
She was the mother of Henry VIII and wife of Henry VII, but who was Elizabeth of York? Raised as the precious eldest child of Edward IV, Elizabeth had every reason to expect a bright future until Edward died, and her life fell apart. When Elizabeth's uncle became Richard III, she was forced to choose sides. Should she trust her father's brother and most loyal supporter or honor the betrothal that her mother has made for her to her family's enemy, Henry Tudor? The choice was made for her on the field at Bosworth.
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Narrator insipid
- By Mark Peake on 03-03-19
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Plantagenet Princess, Tudor Queen
- The Story of Elizabeth of York
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
- Series: Plantagenet Embers, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 06-07-16
- Language: English
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I, Claudius
- By: Robert Graves
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Full Cast, Tom Goodman-Hill
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall403
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Performance343
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Story343
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Robert Graves' brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, starring Tom Goodman Hill as Claudius and Derek Jacobi as Augustus. The wickedly entertaining inside story of the lives and deaths of the Imperial dynasty from Augustus to...
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The Original Book is Cleverer and Better
- By Isabel Birney on 17-04-20
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I, Claudius
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Full Cast, Tom Goodman-Hill
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 20-03-12
- Language: English
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The Personal Librarian
- By: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance61
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Story61
Over one million copies sold! The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! “Historical fiction at its best!”* A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal...
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Enlightening and magnificent!
- By Egle Cerneckiene on 20-05-22
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The Personal Librarian
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 29-06-21
- Language: English
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A Place of Greater Safety
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 33 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall919
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Performance814
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Story812
A tour-de-force of historical imagination, this is the story of three young men at the dawn of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic, debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent, and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, charming, handsome, but erratic and untrustworthy. As these key figures of the French Revolution taste the addictive delights of power, they must also come to face the horror that follows.
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Highly recommended
- By MaE on 04-06-14
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A Place of Greater Safety
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 33 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 22-04-13
- Language: English
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My Father's House
- The unputdownable #1 Irish bestselling historical thriller
- By: Joseph O'Connor
- Narrated by: Barry Barnes, Stephen Hogan, Barnaby Edwards, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall444
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Performance419
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Story420
Brought to you by Penguin. September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war's outcome is far from certain. An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, the world's smallest...
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Excellent stuff
- By The Curator on 28-01-23
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My Father's House
- The unputdownable #1 Irish bestselling historical thriller
- Narrated by: Barry Barnes, Stephen Hogan, Barnaby Edwards, Laurence Bouvard, Aoife Duffin, Gertrude Thoma, David John, Roberto Davide, Thomas Hill
- Series: The Rome Escape Line Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 26-01-23
- Language: English
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Claudius the God
- By: Robert Graves
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Abridged
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Overall320
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Performance267
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Story265
Read in the style of a secret diary, this famous sequel to I, Claudius gives a wry and human view of the Roman world, bringing to life some of the most scandalous and violent times in history. Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. He recounts his surprisingly successful rule; how he cultivates the loyalty of the army to repair the damage caused by his nephew Caligula; his friendship with the Jewish King Herod Agrippa; and his invasion of Britain.
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Abridged, unfortunately, otherwise impeccable.
- By Mary Carnegie on 12-04-16
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Claudius the God
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 11-06-09
- Language: English
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Why Mummy Doesn’t Give a ****!
- Why Mummy, Book 3
- By: Gill Sims
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall642
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Performance553
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Story547
Mummy dreams of a quirky rural cottage with roses around the door and chatty chickens in the garden. Life, as ever, is not going quite as she planned. Paxo, Oxo and Bisto turn out to be highly rambunctious rather than merely chatty, and the roses have jaggy thorns.
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More to this than the title suggests
- By Karen on 28-08-19
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Why Mummy Doesn’t Give a ****!
- Why Mummy, Book 3
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
- Series: Why Mummy, Book 3
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 27-06-19
- Language: English
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Shadow of Persephone
- Story of Catherine Howard Series, Book 1
- By: G. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance21
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Daughter of the nobility, cousin to a fallen Queen, Catherine Howard rose from the cluttered ranks of courtiers at the court of Henry VIII to become the King's fifth wife. But hers is a tale that starts long before the crown was placed on her head. A tale of tragedy and challenges, predators and prey; the story of a young girl growing up in a perilous time, facing dangers untold. The fifth wife of Henry VIII would end her life on the block, like her cousin Anne Boleyn...but where did her story begin?
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Why?
- By Gayle Taylor on 05-09-24
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Shadow of Persephone
- Story of Catherine Howard Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Series: Story of Catherine Howard, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 28-04-20
- Language: English
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The Lady Elizabeth
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 19 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance40
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Story41
The towering capricious figure of Henry VIII dominates Elizabeth's childhood, but others play powerful roles: Mary, first a loving sister, then as queen a lethal threat; Edward, the rigid and sad little King; Thomas Seymour, the Lord High Admiral, whose ambitions, both political and sexual, are unbridled. Finally, there is the ever-present ghost—the enigmatic, seductive figure of her mother Anne Boleyn, executed by Henry, whose story Elizabeth must unravel.
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Again...again!
- By GalePettifer on 03-06-09
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The Lady Elizabeth
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 19 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-04-09
- Language: English
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The Resistance Knitting Club
- Threads of Resistance
- By: Jenny O'Brien
- Narrated by: Shelley Atkinson
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Guernsey, 2010. After a stroke, an elderly woman shocks her family by speaking perfect French—a language they never knew she possessed. As her granddaughter unravels seventy years of silence, a hidden wartime story emerges... Paris, 1941. After her brother is declared missing in action at Dunkirk, eighteen-year-old Lenny Gallienne vanishes into Churchill’s secret army. In a bookshop on Rue de la Pompe, she poses as a shop girl while encoding intelligence from Nazi headquarters into knitting patterns. Each sweater smuggled to prisoners contains flight paths. Each scarf holds radio frequencies.
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How interesting!!
- By Anonymous on 24-02-26
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The Resistance Knitting Club
- Threads of Resistance
- Narrated by: Shelley Atkinson
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 06-02-26
- Language: English
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Doctor of the High Fells
- By: Elizabeth Gill
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall238
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Performance217
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From the best-selling author of Miss Appleby's Academy comes a gritty saga perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Maggie Hope and Nadine Dorries. Prue's heart beat hard - she had heard of the low seams of the mines of Northwest Durham, and she had always had a fear of being enclosed. This was her job, she told herself; this was what she had wanted. She must do it. So she picked up her bag and followed them to the cage which carried the miners belowground, praying that the man did not die, that she need not produce some miracle....
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Easy to get lost in
- By Amazon Customer on 03-04-17
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Doctor of the High Fells
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 02-02-17
- Language: English
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Shrines of Gaiety
- The Sunday Times Bestseller
- By: Kate Atkinson
- Narrated by: Jason Watkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,756
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Performance1,615
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Brought to you by Penguin. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time...
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A Magical Listen!
- By Paula Caven-Lewis on 11-10-22
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Shrines of Gaiety
- The Sunday Times Bestseller
- Narrated by: Jason Watkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 27-09-22
- Language: English
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The World According To Garp
- By: John Irving
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall242
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Performance220
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A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers. 'A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and heartbreaking...terrific' WASHINGTON POST Anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author. A worldwide bestseller since its publication, Irving's classic is...
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Maiming is the name of the game
- By Fanshawe61 on 22-08-20
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The World According To Garp
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 19-03-20
- Language: English
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Musashi
- By: Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 53 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall821
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Performance740
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The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi becomes a reluctant hero to a host of people whose lives he has touched and by whom he has been touched. Inevitably, he has to pit his skill against the naked blade of his greatest rival.
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A powerful, important listen for any fans of Japanese history, culture or martial arts.
- By Peter on 17-04-21
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Musashi
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 53 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 28-08-18
- Language: English
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Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose
- Tudor Rose Novel 1
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Nicky Diss
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall174
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Performance163
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Story163
Brand-new historical fiction from the author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Six Tudor Queens series. This is the spellbinding, untold story of Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor queen. 'Alison Weir gives us her most compelling heroine yet... This is where the story of the Tudors begins and is...
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Very dull
- By Clare on 20-06-22
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Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose
- Tudor Rose Novel 1
- Narrated by: Nicky Diss
- Series: Tudor Rose, Book 1
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 12-05-22
- Language: English
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Other Women
- the devastating historical murder mystery inspired by a true story, and Radio 2 Book Club pick
- By: Emma Flint
- Narrated by: Chloe Massey, Sara Poyzer
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall211
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Performance202
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Zoe Ball's BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. Mesmerising and haunting, Emma Flint's Other Women is a devastating story of fantasy, obsession inspired by a murder that took place almost a hundred years ago. 'A pitch-perfect historical mystery' – The Guardian 'Bloody brilliant' – Dinah Jefferies...
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Highly recommended!
- By Ellie on 20-04-23
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Other Women
- the devastating historical murder mystery inspired by a true story, and Radio 2 Book Club pick
- Narrated by: Chloe Massey, Sara Poyzer
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 23-02-23
- Language: English
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