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ID: 799685

Title: Other Side of Paradise

Author: Vanessa Beaumont

Narrator: Penelope Rawlins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:15:19

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

London, 1921 - Jean Buckman, a young and innocent American heiress arrives in England to find a society decimated by war but resolutely clinging to the status quo. She marries Edward Warre an engaging but complex man and the owner of a once great but now struggling estate. As the marriage falters, Jean spends her summers in the South of France where she embarks on a passionate affair that will have repercussions for the rest of her life. Two sons arrive, the oldest, heir to the estate, is not the true bloodline. But Edward needs Jean's money to survive, and she needs her husband's silence.

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ID: 720896

Title: Enduring Passions

Author: David Wiltshire

Narrator: Gordon Griffin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:58:15

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-23

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

For Tim Roxham, a young railway policeman, and Fay Rossiter, the problems of relationships across the social divide in pre-war England, pale into insignificance when Mr Chamberlain's tired voice announces that the country is at war with Germany. Now it's not just their love that is threatened but their very lives. Against a background of increasingly disturbing events in Europe, and fierce resistance from Fay's wealthy family and friends, they fight for their relationship in the face of adversity. But as the war rips them apart, only time will tell if they are strong enough to win through.

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ID: 728113

Title: Murdering the Messenger

Author: Michael Jecks

Narrator: Kris Dyer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:27:42

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-23

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical

Summary:

March 1557. Jack Blackjack is back in London and enjoying a sedentary life. After his treacherous voyage back to his beloved city the previous year, he desires nothing more than women, wine, beer and more women. But his new parish of St Helen's has different ideas for him . . . A week after first laying eyes on the tempting Miss Rachel Nailor, she turns up dead on the church vestry floor . . . and someone is trying to frame him for her murder! Rachel was a woman with many secrets. But was she murdered in a fit of lustful rage, or was it part of a wider political play? Who would want Rachel dead - and Jack hanged for it? With his master breathing down his neck, and old foes crawling out of the woodwork, Jack has never been in more danger!

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ID: 738762

Title: Alexander's Legacy: Forging Kingdoms

Author: Robert Fabbri

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:23:14

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-24

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

From the shattered empire, five kingdoms are emerging. Seleukos, triumphant in the capture of Babylon, now faces the challenge of holding onto his hard-won prize. One-eyed Antigonos and his son are newly reconciled and both hungry for revenge. But Antigonos has foes of his own. Driven by vengeance, widowed Artonis sides with Ptolemy, planning to thwart the one-eyed brute. The key to their success is Herakles, the sixteen-year-old illegitimate son of Alexander. To see him crowned, they will not only need an army but also to eliminate Kassandros, a powerful rival with his own designs on the throne of Macedon. Meanwhile in the north, Lysimachus broods. As loyalties shift like sand and political ambitions run rife, the stage is set for the greatest war in the ancient world. Who will win the fight for the greatest Kingdom in the ancient world? Let the games begin . . .

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ID: 700359

Title: Running Free

Author: Richard Askwith

Narrator: Richard Askwith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:23:50

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-23

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Sports, Health & Wellness, Fitness

Summary:

Richard Askwith wanted more. Not convinced running had to be all about pounding pavements, buying fancy kit and racking up extreme challenges, he looked for ways to liberate himself. His solution: running through muddy fields and up rocky fells, running with his dog at dawn, running because he's being (voluntarily) chased by a pack of bloodhounds, running to get hopelessly, enjoyably lost, running fast for the sheer thrill of it. Running as nature intended. Part diary of a year running through the Northamptonshire countryside, part exploration of why we love to run without limits, Running Free is an eloquent and inspiring account of running in a forgotten, rural way, observing wildlife and celebrating the joys of nature, that offers a welcome alternative to the commercialism of running.

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ID: 629952

Title: Betrayal in the Cotswolds

Author: Rebecca Tope

Narrator: Caroline Lennon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:03:20

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-22

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

A handsome, if slightly shabby, stone house in Upper Oddington is home to Umberto Kingley as well as his three dogs and will be Thea Slocombe's latest house-sitting assignment. Without even a local shop, Thea expects the location to be one of her quietest, until the serene atmosphere is shattered by a fatal hit-and-run. The ensuing high-profile police investigation plunges Thea deep into the victim's complicated family dynamics and the rift that had already torn it apart. And she cannot help wondering if the reverberations of scandal have led to a deliberate and murderous assault.

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ID: 618947

Title: Arsenic Labyrinth

Author: Martin Edwards

Narrator: Julia Franklin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:08:37

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-22

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Daniel Kind's relationship with Miranda is on the rocks. After the bright lights of London, Miranda feels isolated in the Lake District and Daniel fears that she will just up and leave. And Miranda wouldn't be the first: ten years ago Emma Bestwick left her cottage and never returned. Her disappearance went unaccounted for, much to the chagrin of DCI Hannah Scarlett, head of the local Cold Case Review Team. But in a small, rural community, someone is bound to know something. And that someone has recently started calling the local newspaper and dropping hints about Emma's death. With the case reopened, Hannah and Daniel are drawn together again, and discover to their cost that one person will preserve the secrets of the past at any price.

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ID: 652234

Title: Medea

Author: Kerry Greenwood

Narrator: Lucy Scott, Simon Mattacks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:03:47

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-23

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Sorceress, Princess of Colchis, Securer of the Golden Fleece.

Medea - her very name is a byword for infamy. Legend has it that she murdered her own children for revenge.

But love in Ancient Greece was often a dangerous game; and legends are not always what they seem.

Medea, devoted wife of Jason, was also a loving mother, a loyal friend of Herakles and a brave adventurer with the Argonauts.

A woman both betrayer and betrayed, the real story of Medea is strange, sensual and heroic.

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ID: 704661

Title: Wartime Welcome

Author: Rosie Meddon

Narrator: Emma Powell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:22:04

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-23

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Romance, Sagas

Summary:

Clemmie throws herself into volunteering with the very organisation who helped her and her sisters when they were homeless: the WVS. Demonstrating a natural flair, painfully-shy Clemmie is soon drafted to set up one of the British Welcome Clubs aimed at easing American troops' integration into English life. There, she meets Squadron Leader Dunning who, shot down in the Blitz, has been left partially paralysed. As friendship turns to something more, Clemmie faces an impossible decision - sacrifice her dreams of motherhood, or lose the man she's learning to love.

Between her volunteer work, Squadron Leader Dunning and the overarching danger and chaos of war, Clemmie must learn to speak up if she's to survive and, more importantly, find the joy in life.

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ID: 672953

Title: Wartime Summer

Author: Rosie Meddon

Narrator: Emma Powell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:12:04

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-23

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Sagas

Summary:

Left homeless after the Exeter Blitz, May must find a job if she's to put a roof over her head and help support her two younger sisters. Taking a job as housekeeper to farmer George, May soon ends up getting stuck into more than just cleaning and cooking. The Ministry of Agriculture will close Fair Maids Farm if it doesn't meet their produce targets, but George refuses to heed their warnings. With only two reluctant Land Girls to help, May receives unexpected guidance from Dan, a neighbouring farmer, whose kindness gets tongues wagging in the village. But secrets and sabotage lie ahead - can May hold her own in a world she's unfamiliar with and turn the fortunes of the farm around?

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