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The Pillars of the Earth
- A Kingsbridge Novel
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 40 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,620
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Performance5,469
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Story5,465
A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece. A MASON WITH A DREAM 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his...
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The Pillars of the Earth
- By Robert on 31-10-10
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The Pillars of the Earth
- A Kingsbridge Novel
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Series: Kingsbridge (Publication Order), Book 1, The Kingsbridge Novels, Book 1, Kingsbridge, Book 1
- Length: 40 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 30-01-14
- Language: English
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Dictator
- From the bestselling author of Conclave
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,767
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Performance1,614
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Story1,608
'Confirms Harris's undisputed place as our leading master of both the historical and contemporary thriller' Daily Mail LAWS ARE SILENT IN TIMES OF WAR. There was a time when Cicero held Caesar's life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero's life is in ruins...
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At last!
- By Mary Carnegie on 27-11-15
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Dictator
- From the bestselling author of Conclave
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Series: Imperium, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 08-10-15
- Language: English
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London Match
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall192
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Performance163
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Story163
Brought to you by Penguin. Long-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all the odds, enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London - but this proves to be the start of something even bigger. For he learns that there is treachery within his own Service, and no one is free from suspicion. To...
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Preposterous and far-fetched, but still enjoyable
- By Graham Harter on 25-11-23
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London Match
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Series: Bernard Samson, Book 3
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 27-05-21
- Language: English
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Angels and Demons
- A Novel
- By: Dan Brown
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,498
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Performance1,909
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Story1,908
The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and The Secret of Secrets. An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard...
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Enjoyable rubbish
- By Davina on 30-07-05
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Angels and Demons
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Series: Robert Langdon Series, Book 1
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 14-04-04
- Language: English
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World Without End
- A Kingsbridge Novel
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,210
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Performance3,377
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Story3,373
The historical saga that has enthralled millions of readers, Ken Follett's Kingsbridge series continues continue with World Without End. Read by the inimitable John Lee On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief...
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Bereaved when it ended
- By bex4ad on 15-03-11
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World Without End
- A Kingsbridge Novel
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Series: Kingsbridge (Publication Order), Book 2, Kingsbridge, Book 2, The Kingsbridge Novels, Book 2
- Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 19-10-10
- Language: English
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Eye of the Needle
- The Heart-Racing Thriller from the Multi-million Copy International Bestseller of The Kingsbridge Series
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall1,652
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Performance1,519
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Story1,512
Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett's historical thriller, is a heart-racingly exciting tale about the fate of the war resting in the hands of a master spy, his opponent and one brave woman. Victory Hangs in the Balance 1944. In the weeks leading up to D-Day the Allies are disguising their invasion...
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A real page turner.
- By D. A. Morse on 31-08-18
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Eye of the Needle
- The Heart-Racing Thriller from the Multi-million Copy International Bestseller of The Kingsbridge Series
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 23-08-18
- Language: English
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Poirot’s Early Cases
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,717
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Performance1,434
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Story1,435
Still in the formative years of his career, Hercule Poirot faces a most taxing case: who killed Lord Cronshaw? Was Coco Courtenay’s death on the same night a mere coincidence? And did she deliberately take an overdose of cocaine? No sooner has Poirot revealed his astonishing powers of...
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I love it
- By Esther on 08-10-16
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Poirot’s Early Cases
- Narrated by: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser
- Series: A Hercule Poirot Mystery, Book 38
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 11-07-07
- Language: English
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Post Captain
- Aubrey-Maturin Series, Book 2
- By: Patrick O'Brian
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,597
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Performance1,391
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Story1,387
This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining, and enjoying amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He flees to the continent to seek refuge.
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Not my favourite
- By I.F.Coyle on 06-09-12
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Post Captain
- Aubrey-Maturin Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin, Book 2
- Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-06-12
- Language: English
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Winter of the World
- A Gripping Epic From The Number One Bestselling Author
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 31 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,664
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Performance2,126
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Story2,114
Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Edge of Eternity, this is a spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama during World War II. A Battle of Ideals It is 1933 and, at...
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Fantastic
- By Mr on 26-09-12
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Winter of the World
- A Gripping Epic From The Number One Bestselling Author
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Series: Century Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 31 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 18-09-12
- Language: English
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Flashman in the Great Game
- By: George MacDonald Fraser
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall336
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Performance292
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Story289
Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown’s schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents – horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th...
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amazing
- By M R Thrall on 16-05-16
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Flashman in the Great Game
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Series: The Flashman Papers, Book 8
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 28-05-15
- Language: English
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The Man From St Petersburg
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,036
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Performance940
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Story936
Read by Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Missing You) The Man From St Petersburg is a dark tale of family secrets and political consequences. Ken Follett's masterful storytelling brings to life the danger of a world on the brink of war. A Secret Negotiation 1914. Tensions are rising as Europe finds...
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Great Read! Great Reader!
- By JD on 23-08-18
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The Man From St Petersburg
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 16-08-18
- Language: English
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Of Blood Descended
- Anthony Blanke Tudor Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Steven Veerapen
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
Summer, 1522. In a wave of pomp, Henry VIII's court welcomes the Imperial emperor, Charles V. Anthony Blanke, the son of the king's late 'black trumpet', John Blanke, is called to Hampton Court by his former employer, Cardinal Wolsey. The cardinal is preparing a gift for King Henry: a masque of King Arthur and the Black Knight. Anthony is to take center stage.
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Plot twists & turns
- By Mair on 04-05-26
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Of Blood Descended
- Anthony Blanke Tudor Mysteries, Book 1
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Series: Anthony Blanke Tudor Mysteries, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-06-24
- Language: English
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Munich
- From the bestselling author of Conclave
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,546
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Performance1,400
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Story1,393
'A brilliantly constructed spy novel' Observer 'Grips from start to finish ... Superb' Mail on Sunday MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about...
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excellent, shame a key passage was missing!
- By Toast Cartoons on 02-10-17
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Munich
- From the bestselling author of Conclave
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 21-09-17
- Language: English
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Poirot Investigates
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: David Suchet
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall563
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Performance477
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Story476
First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room… a million dollar bond robbery… the curse of a pharoah’s tomb… a jewel robbery by the sea…...
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Wrong Reader, Good Stories
- By Andrew on 16-04-08
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Poirot Investigates
- Narrated by: David Suchet
- Series: A Hercule Poirot Mystery, Book 3
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-07-07
- Language: English
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Revelation
- Shardlake, Book 4
- By: C. J. Sansom
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,780
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Performance1,596
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Story1,602
Perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory, C. J. Sansom's bestselling adventures of Matthew Shardlake continue in the fourth book, the haunting Revelation. 'When it comes to intriguing Tudor-based narratives, Hilary Mantel has a serious rival' - Sunday Times ‘Sansom has the trick...
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Story lost its way
- By Nevermore67 on 23-03-15
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Revelation
- Shardlake, Book 4
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Series: Shardlake, Book 4
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 23-10-14
- Language: English
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The Lords of the North
- By: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,027
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Performance1,847
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Story1,835
The third book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. A hero will be forged from this broken land. As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. The year is 878 and the Vikings have been thrown out of Wessex. Uhtred, fresh from fighting for Alfred in the battle to free...
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Very good story telling
- By Gizmo on 25-02-26
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The Lords of the North
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Series: Last Kingdom (formerly Saxon Tales), Book 3
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-05-14
- Language: English
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The Other Boleyn Girl
- By: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Vanessa Kirby
- Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall617
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Performance545
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Story544
1521. Young Mary Boleyn arrives at court, maid in waiting and favourite to Queen Katherine of Aragon. Yet Mary catches the eye of the capricious king and – propelled by the ambitions of the powerful Boleyn family – she betrays her queen, and takes her place as Henry VIII’s new mistress. But while Mary is in childbed, a rival comes to court – her sister Anne, a young woman ruthless in her drive to become queen. With her own destiny unknown, and the Boleyn enemies gathering, Mary must defy her family – and command her own fate.
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Great book ruined by poor editing
- By SammyGirl on 08-09-18
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The Other Boleyn Girl
- Narrated by: Vanessa Kirby
- Series: The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, Book 9
- Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 26-07-18
- Language: English
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Precipice
- The thrilling No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Conclave
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,037
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Performance1,911
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Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless – is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than...
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A page turner
- By Flippy on 31-08-24
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Precipice
- The thrilling No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Conclave
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 29-08-24
- Language: English
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Triple
- The Pulse-Pounding Espionage Novel From International No.1 Bestseller Ken Follett
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Raza Jaffrey
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall386
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Performance343
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Story343
This is the story of the most successful espionage coup of the twentieth century. Taut, political and utterly captivating, Triple is a spy thriller from master storyteller and author of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett. A Frightening Discovery 1968. The fledgling nation of Israel is...
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Exciting story
- By JLNR on 18-10-20
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Triple
- The Pulse-Pounding Espionage Novel From International No.1 Bestseller Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Raza Jaffrey
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 23-08-18
- Language: English
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The Seaside Murders
- The Secret Detective Agency, Book 2
- By: Helena Dixon
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Bower
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance49
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England, 1941. When Jane Treen is summoned to her boss’s office at the end of a long day, she smooths down her tweed skirt and makes them both another strong pot of coffee. Brigadier Remmington-Blythe slides a folded copy of the evening newspaper towards her, with one small article circled in red ink. A body has been found on an English beach in the little seaside town where she grew up, and he wants her to investigate. Jane is used to managing secret agents and spies, but she is now part of The Secret Detective Agency, England’s answer to solving the most mysterious murders.
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A SEASIDE MURDER IN KENT
- By Kath B on 04-05-26
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The Seaside Murders
- The Secret Detective Agency, Book 2
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Bower
- Series: Secret Detective Agency, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 30-04-25
- Language: English
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