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Title: 21 Aldgate

Author: Patricia Friedberg

Narrator: Rebecca Shelbourn-Timm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-14

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When young Clara Simon quit her job in Ernest Maxwell Abbott's law firm over his increasingly shabby treatment of Jewish clients, she soon realized the seriousness of her actions. Giving up any job in post-WWI London meant taking a chance. Clara knew her family at 21 Aldgate would not be supportive. A coincidental meeting with a former Abbott employee resulted in a job offer in Chelsea. Clara, reluctant to consider venturing into affluent Chelsea, finally agreed to meet with the important French artist, Paul Maze, who needed an assistant to help write his memoir. Their working relationship ignited a passionate love that forever changed her. On the tides of the Second World War, Clara was forced to make decisions that risked both her life and her marriage...

Critic Reviews:

"Patricia Friedberg's 21 Aldgate is a book for the movie-goers who...applauded at the end of The King's Speech." (Rosemary Nelms, editor, Author, Author column, The Commercial Appeal)

"Anyone with a tie to London's East End is likely to enjoy Patricia Friedberg's latest novel." (Candice Kreiger, journalist, London Jewish Chronicle)

Members Reviews:

If you can get passed the narration

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

No, I would not unless I knew the person was familiar with European history.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Her voice was not appropriate for male characters and her foreign accents left a lot to be desired.

If you could take any character from 21 Aldgate out to dinner, who would it be and why?

Paul, because he sounds like he has a lot of interesting stories to tell.

Any additional comments?

I think I would have enjoyed reading the boom more than listening to the audio version.

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Title: For a Modest Fee

Author: Freda Jackson

Narrator: Freda Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Trained as a nurse and midwife, Elizabeth Evans never wanted to help set up the fledgling town of Aspen Coulee, Alberta, but travels there with her father when he agrees to become the town doctor. Housekeeper at the Evans house, Ann Montgomery hoped to keep all her San Francisco secrets locked in her ancient wedding chest. It is 1907, and the Canadian Pacific Railway is driving the engine of the west. Against the fluid backdrop of the Canadian prairies, For a Modest Fee is a story about the women of the era and the expectations that made them the primary caretakers of not only their own families, but of the entire town. A hundred years ago, choices for women were few; married or single, they all stepped into the roles thrust upon them. For a Modest Fee is a fascinating audiobook that looks at the evolution, in a few short years, of a prairie town from windblown wilderness to a fitting place for flowerboxes and school recitals.

Members Reviews:

Don't Let The Narration Make You Miss This Wonder

This story of strong unwavering women in the wild prairie of 1907 Alberta, Canada is wonderful. I am so glad that I listened!

The only flaw was the decision to have the author narrate the book. This was a mistake. Her voice is difficult listening at first--but gradually I grew use to it. Other reviewers have complained about it. But, I am so glad I didn't listen to them and stuck with the book because the story is a true winner.

Brimming with harsh realities, unending strength and endearing hope this book allows the beauty of the prairie to shine through. It captures frontier life in Canada perfectly. The writing is completely engaging and had me hanging on every word. Definitely worth the effort. Not to be missed!

Performance issues

I enjoy it when authors read their books. This seems a good story. But the author reads it as if at a book reading without inflection or character voices. At times, I don't think she heeded punctuation. Because of this, I only listened for 15 minutes and then deleted the book. This is one to read from the book. (I think I am spoiled by the great Audible performances.)

Poor reader!

What would have made For a Modest Fee better?

Someone else reading the story for starters!

What didnt you like about Freda Jacksons performance?

Her speech pattern and tone of voice. Very monotonous.

Any additional comments?

Wasted my money on this book.

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Title: Wake

Author: Anna Hope

Narrator: Anna Hope

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-14

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Five Days in November, 1920: As the body of the Unknown Soldier makes its way home from the fields of Northern France, three women are dealing with loss in their own way: Hettie, who dances for sixpence a waltz at the Hammersmith Palais; Evelyn, who toils at a job in the pensions office, and Ada, a housewife who is beset by visions of her dead son.

One day a young man comes to her door. He carries with him a wartime mystery that will bind these women together and will both mend and tear their hearts. A portrait of three intertwining lives caught at the faultline between empire and modernity, Wake captures the beginnings of a new era, and the day the mood of the nation changed for ever.

Members Reviews:

Beautiful and compelling story

I have read some of the other reviews which I feel are less than generous regarding the fact that Anna Hope is reading her own story and therefore the reading is somewhat monotone. I think that given the subject of the story it would be hard for anyone to be joyful.

The story is set in the aftermath of the 1st World War when a whole generation of young men have been decimated and the women of the country are trying to come to terms with the loss of their sons, husbands, fiancés and indeed their futures.

Surviving men are also changed. Physically in many cases, but emotionally and psychologically almost certainly, and they too have to rewrite their own futures limited by the horrors of war.

The story concentrates on five days in November 1920 when the body of the unknown soldier is returning from France to be placed in the tomb at the Cenotaph. The body is to become a symbol of all the sons, husbands and fiancés which have been lost, either who cannot be identified at all, or whose bodies remain in France and cannot be reached by their own families.

It tells the story of three of the women who are linked by tragedy but who don't know each other. The story is poignant and beautiful and brought to life for me the era of my grandmother, who was 18 at the end of the First World War, and who I thought about often throughout the telling of the story.

I think this is a novel which will stay with me for a long time. I loved it in a sad way, it was haunting, well written and I shall listen to it again at some time in the future when I think I will probably identify even more depths to the story.

A book to break your heart

Where does Wake rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

Near the top for a number of things

What was one of the most memorable moments of Wake?

Ada's inability to articulate her feelings to her husband after seeing the medium

What does Anna Hope bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you had only read the book?

Perfect pace

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Not sure I could cope with all that emotion in one go

Any additional comments?

A history lesson to make you feel so many unspoken emotions

you will become involved, learn and weep

Where does Wake rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

its a great book, very well read. the characters are so well drawn that you feel their loss. the descriptions are clear and you begin to understand what the world post WW1 must have been like.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Wake?

the end when they all go to London to see the procession of the Unknown Warrior.

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Title: The Olympian

Subtitle: A Tale of Ancient Hellas

Author: E. S. Kraay

Narrator: Alistair McKenzie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-14

Publisher: Eugene S. Kraay

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the 75th Olympiad by Greek reckoning, the strongest, fastest, quickest, and most agile men in Hellas gathered at Olympia to celebrate life through athletic competition. That same year, 480 BCE by our reckoning, the Persian emprie ruled the known world save for that small peninsula dominated by a dozen democratic city-states.

To avenge the defeat of his father on the plain of Marathon 10 years earlier, Xerxes, the great king, amassed an army a million men strong to bring these free states to heel. Amid the cheering crowds, the sweat, dust, and blood on the Elisian fields of friendly strife, and threatened by the impending clash of armies with the fate of Western Civilization in the balance, two men, one a boxer, the other a poet, come to the revelation that the true worth of a man is based on more than what he does for himself.

The Olympian explores a little known reason why only 300 Spartans faced a million men in the Thermopylae Pass, and stands as tribute to those extraordinary warriors who waged a battle that saved Western culture.

Members Reviews:

An Excellent Tale from an Unusual Perspective

"The Olympian" is set roughly ten years after the defeat of the Greeks at Thermopylae but the main subject is the events of the summer of 480 BC and the impact they had on the two main characters. What makes this book exceptional and good reading is that it is not, except for one short chapter, the retelling of the familiar story of blood and gore and courage, but rather the story of a Thasian athlete seen through the eyes of others who knew him. The book is told in the first person from the perspective of the poet Simonides of Cos.

In Delphi, Simonides chances upon a party of men from Thasos, who have sought the advice of the Oracle about how to end a drought oppressing their island. Simonides, after hearing the oracle delivered to them, believes he can interpret it for them. He explains that it concerns righting wrongs done to a certain Thrasian athlete, Theagenes, who competed at the Olympic games in 480. He promises to explain himself by telling the story of Theagenes as the party makes its way back to Thasos.

The book moves at the gentle pace of a journey on foot and the story teller unravels his tale slowly, but as a result the voice seems all the more authentic, and at no time was I bored or tempted to leave the book unfinished. The story was, in its leisurely way, compelling. The characters took shape convincingly and their behavior is consistent and believable throughout. Particularly well drawn is the first-person narrator, Simonides himself. In fact, the use of the aging poet as narrator is one of the most engaging features of this novel. It is refreshing to have an aging, unattractive poet rather than an exceedingly handsome hoplite telling a story about, eventually, Thermopylae. The use of Simonides as story-teller also enables the book to be more reflective in tone, while adding wonderful authenticity through homilies and judgments that would seem out of place in another narrator or if this character were not so well-drawn.

Kraay's historical research must have been first class also. He adds brilliant touches like allowing Simonides to quote Hesiod in appropriate ways and places. I also liked his use of small details - the food eaten, the scars left on boxers - to give the entire book texture and color.

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Title: The Green Age of Asher Witherow

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: M. Allen Cunningham

Narrator: Alex Bloch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Supplying a quarter of San Franciscos coal, Nortonville of the 1860s-70s is a flourishing empire in small, seeming to promise unending prosperity and a better future. But beneath the vibrant work ethic of its Welch citizens lies an insidious network of superstitions.

A missing boy first brings these dark undercurrents to light. Then young Asher Witherow falls under the spell of an unorthodox apprentice minister, stirring a whirlpool of suspicion and outrage. Soon Asher finds himself trapped in a nightmarish crucible, all the more excruciating because he himself could end it if he could only find the strength of will. This is a lesson the missing boy has taught him, and what he understands instinctively from the alluring Anna Flood, new to Nortonville, who with her raw sensuality and independence seems to offer some hope of redemption or even escape.

In this powerful debut from a young writer of stunning talent, M. Allen Cunningham takes us into a time and place at once gritty and magical, when the future seems filled with promise but where the days labor is bone breaking, numbing and always dangerous.

Gorgeously written, historically authentic, The Green Age of Asher Witherow is a novel of tested loyalties, of condemnation and redemption. The characters deep emotional lives are complex and vivid, fluctuating from the doomed to the transcendent. As he unpacks his heart, Asher comes to realize that all his early traumas have somehow bonded him to the land surrounding Mount Diablo and infused his life with an inward wealth - a treasure at which we can only wonder.

Members Reviews:

From the eyes of innocence

I learned so much about the history of coal mining and the Welsh immigrant experience. The perspective of a young boy brought an objective innocence free of analysis or judgement. The story was compelling and the theme of death as a natural part of life and how we relate to that was interesting to consider along with the superstition versus rational knowledge of science theme.

By many means a good book.

I would like to let everyone reading know that I have no intention of putting down this book or the author in a negative way. My intention is to simply communicate to people about how I, one individual of many who have bought and read this book, feel about it--in hopes that it will help them decide whether or not they want to purchase it.

This book is without a doubt very intriguing. From the start it presents to you a view of a world that very little people reading it would have known. Early on it establishes strong roots and a solid foundation. It's also quite a page-turner. The writing is fluid, and the story is strong.

Despite being overall a good book, the basic structure of the story did seem awfully tried and tested. It didn't feel like anything especially unique or new. Which is not necessarily a bad thing--the author used a structure that has been tried and tested throughout the years to make many classic novels, and though sometimes it can seem a bit too familiar, it does very well work with the story.

Climbing into the mind of the character, throughout different ages is definitely fun and interesting--but it seemed like the general atmosphere of the book was a bit dry, and lacking a good bed of water. I always felt like a needed a hardy meal after reading a book bit of it.

Overall, this was a very good and satisfying read.

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Title: Ghost Moth

Author: Michele Forbes

Narrator: Michele Forbes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Irish Book Awards Shortlist Concord Monitor/Concord Insider Book of the Week Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book Staff Pick Brooklyn Book Festival Best Debut Book

During the hot Irish summer of 1969, tensions rise in Belfast where Katherine, a former actress, and George, a firefighter, struggle to keep buried secrets from destroying their marriage. As Catholic Republicans and Protestant Loyalists clash during the Troubles and Northern Ireland moves to the brink of civil war, the lines between private anguish and public outrage disintegrate. An exploration of memory, childhood, illicit love, and loss, Ghost Moth is an exceptional tale about a family - and a country - seeking freedom from ghosts of the past.

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Michle Forbes is an award-winning theater, television, and film actress who has toured worldwide with The Great Hunger and Dancing at Lughnasa. She studied literature at Trinity College, Dublin and has worked as a literary reviewer for the Irish Times. Her short stories have received both the Bryan MacMahon and the Michael McLaverty Awards. She lives near Dalkey, Dublin with her husband and two children. Ghost Moth is her first novel.

Critic Reviews:

"Ghost Moth is an impressive debut by a writer who is not afraid to address the so-called ordinary lives of real human beings." (John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light)

"Clever, unpredictable, beautifully written and crafted." (Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments )

Members Reviews:

It's all about relationships

The author did a wonderful job in developing the characters in this story. Secrets revealed during their honeymoon, threaten to break up newly weds. What is revealed influences their relationship throughout their marriage. An overworked, lonely housewife/mother wonders what life would have been like if she had married her first love. Belfast is not an easy place to live when you're a Catholic family and the whole family is on edge because the father is a firefighter who is in the middle of all the unrest. When one of the children asks their mother, Katherine, "What is love...how do you know if it's real", Katherine remembers her first love (not her husband.) Near the end of the story, Katherine finally realizes what true love really is. The only thing I disliked was alternate chapters being 20 years apart.

Good, hard to read for an expat northern Irelander

I lived in Northern Ireland during the time the story was written. Of the sectarian distrist and dislike is very very true. The way the family lived and loved is as it was, and i was able to relate to this. I probably should give more stars as much of the story left me hurt and sore for recreating memories that I have tried HARD to forget and forgive, this book did raise up ghosts, painful ones.

My greatest regret in this book was that there were unfinished parts, I would have liked to have understood more about the wifes real feelings, and that of her husband .It wasn't clear his point of view and how he married her, or how their relationship and marriage. His finding her lover etc. Was all so vague. I would like to think that Michele Forbes will not be a "flash in the pan" .with just one book. i hope she will have more publications and much better books and stories to tell.

I can't say I enjoyed the book, it really hurt too much.

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Title: Coming Down Again

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: John Balaban

Narrator: Noah Michael Levine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-30-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Based on a true story: A magnificent portrayal of chaos, darkness, and adventure in Asia's Golden Triangle as the war wages in Vietnam. Adrift at the end of the Vietnam War, Paul Roberts and his girlfriend, Fay, are arrested at the Burmese-Thai border for smuggling a couple of ounces of hashish. Stranded in a small Thai prison, they become part of a grisly contest played out by opium warlords, corrupt border patrol police, and two AWOL GIs. The war echoes through their intrigues and jailbreak attempts, especially when a regiment of North Vietnamese joins the skirmish. Transcending the adventure story, John Balabans lyric prose conjures beautiful and frightening images, evoking the Golden Triangles jungle as well as the complex hazards of the opium trade.

Members Reviews:

Journey into a Landscape....

Many of our generation thought they knew something of the landscapes of the Viet Nam war from television and news releases and returning soldiers' descriptions, but in this novel, the physicality of the region is made alive and the author has created a vicarious experience of the jungle and the people and the experiences of his characters. The book is both a look back in time, the effects of that war on the characters, and contemporaryâan adventure of more recent time. A lovely read : complex, rich in detail without tedious or overwrought descriptionâ complex characters with complex issues well presented. Nothing is overworked here. The novel is graceful and engaging and I definitely recommend it!

Highly recommended.

Excellent reading.

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Title: In Calamity's Wake

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Natalee Caple

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-27-13

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A strikingly vivid audiobook about the adventures of Calamity Jane and the abandoned daughter who seeks to be reunited with her.

Miette has no desire to meet the mother who abandoned her, a woman she knows only as an infamous soldier, drinker, and exhibition shooter: Martha Canary, made notorious as Calamity Jane. But Miette's beloved adoptive father makes a deathbed request that the two be reunited: "You have to do it. Promise me you will not change your mind. I know that you've heard sickening things and those things are all true, but I'm sure she wants to know you."

Set in the Badlands of the North American West in the late 1800s, In Calamity's Wake tells the story of Miette's quest across a landscape occupied by strangers, ghosts, and animals. On her journey she meets an old lover of her father's, a man who claims to be her brother, an imposter she thinks is her mother, Negro minstrel Lew Spencer, a kind madam who is her mother's best friend, a wolf who longs to protect her, and many others.

Woven into Miette's story are the stories of Jane as told in legend, history books, dime store novels, and by the woman herself. When Miette and her mother finally meet, the many threads of these tales come together and Miette must decide whether to forgive the woman who had forsaken her for a life of danger and adventure.

Members Reviews:

One of the best reads this year

Well researched, well constructed, well written, this novel is also a deeply felt meditation on connection and longing.

The story begins with the 3rd person narration of Martha's (Calamity Jane's) beginnings. Next, we hear from Miette, Martha's daughter, who she gave as an infant to a travelling bishop to raise, which he did, and well. His dying words to Miette told her who her mother was, and to find her. From there we alternate, more or less, between the two odysseys, which occasional interruptions by other characters or newspaper reports from the day. Gradually, the sad story of Calamity Jane and all the loss in her life is revealled, as Miette comes closer.

Loved it

It is a sugar coated version of the goings on in the old west or what happened in South Dakota. I visited Deadwood and saw her grave on Boot Hill and this book brought back all those memories.

interesting

Nice background on someone everyone knows, but not really. Nice depiction of the "west" and the characters of that era, enjoyed the read

Different

The book was interesting but it jumped around a bit so it was a little tough to follow. Not an easy read.

Miette, meet your mother Martha...

According to author Natalee Caple, this story was inspired by a claim Calamity Jane herself is said to have made that she bore James Butler (aka "Wild Bill") Hickock a child (without his knowledge, I'm guessing, if the story is true) but shortly after the birth had given it up for adoption. So what might have become of this child? In Calamity's Wake theorizes on this. In Caple's story, Martha Canary's (aka "Calamity Jane") daughter is adopted by a man of the cloth, who nicknames the girl Miette (the girl's birth name is Martha, after her mother). Years later, when Miette's adoptive father is on his deathbed, he implores her to go and find her mother, get to know her, make peace with their past, etc.

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Title: Help Wanted: Female

Author: Sara Pritchard

Narrator: Sara Pritchard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-25-13

Publisher: Etruscan Press

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

So there was all that: the ordinary twill of life; the ho-hum sturm und drang of the workplace: the ubiquitous absurdities, the annoying co-workers, the bloody deadlines and even bloodier bottom lines; the bland, eternal, Sisyphean, absolute, unrelenting, surreal certainty of the day-in-and-day-out of it all. Life as a slice of white bread, moistened with spit and rolled into a messy glob, a doughy ball that couldn't make the slightest dent in the iron gates of life.

But then, suddenly, on August 27, 2002, all that changed. Suddenly, Rae-Jean's uneventful life began to leaven and swell with hypotheticals. 'What if' grabbed a hold of it and pumped it a few times in its death grip.

The world in Sara Pritchard's audiobook is a known world and yet a strange place, with a cast of homeless characters who wander in and out of the stories of the collection, all set in the same university town. The linked stories take place during the time when gender discrimination in the American workplace was blatant, and when classified ads were labeled "male" or "female" accordingly.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful, quirky stories, read by a unique voice

What did you love best about Help Wanted: Female?

Sara Pritchard's characters are always just off center, always unexpected. Her storied sparkle with humor, even as they tug at your heart.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Help Wanted: Female?

The woman whose husband leaves her suddenly for his partner's widow - with whom, it seems, he has fathered two children. She finally manages to deal with her anger through an unlikely friendship with an elderly neighbor.

What about Sara Pritchards performance did you like?

Ms. Pritchard's performance is not conventional. She is not an actress or orator, but her sweet delivery and obvious delight in her stories is infectious.

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Title: The Maharajah's General

Author: Paul Fraser Collard

Narrator: Dudley Hinton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-13

Publisher: Headline Digital

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A riveting tale of battle and adventure in a brutal land, where loyalty and courage are constantly challenged and the enemy is never far away.

Jack Lark barely survived the Battle of the Alma. As the brutal fight raged, he discovered the true duty that came with the officer's commission he'd taken. In hospital, wounded, and with his stolen life left lying on the battlefield, he grasps a chance to prove himself a leader once more.

Poor Captain Danbury is dead, but Jack will travel to his new regiment in India, under his name. Jack soon finds more enemies, but this time they're on his own side.

Exposed as a fraud, he's rescued by the chaplain's beautiful daughter, who has her own reasons to escape. They seek desperate refuge with the Maharajah of Sawadh, the charismatic leader whom the British Army must subdue. He sees Jack as a curiosity, but recognises a fellow military mind. In return for his safety, Jack must train the very army the British may soon have to fight....

Members Reviews:

bloodshed and treachery

This is a story of rather disgusting bad behavior in men.

From the East India Company commander who incites a war with a Maharajah to win personal laurels, to a British officer who arrogantly makes bad battle decisions, putting his men in grave danger, and then blames others for the result. Worse still the "hero" of the book is offered refuge by the Maharajah when he is found guilty of impersonating an officer and repays the Maharajah's kindness by betraying him to the British and then leading the fight against his seemingly justified cause.

Gory and inglorious.

Great book

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Loved the first book was gutted when I found there was nothing to follow until july 2016

Dreadful

So bad I couldn't believe it A book written by a ten year old boy without an editor. Complete rubbish. Also a poor reader but, to be fair even Tim Piggot Smith couldn't make a silk purse out of this pigs ear.

Decent listen

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I would, just about

If youve listened to books by Paul Fraser Collard before, how does this one compare?

Really enjoyed the first book but this isn't as good, or as original. Part Zulu, part Mills and Boon I think the author could have done better with the storyline. The fight scenes are very well-written but the constant enforcing the of view that all British officers were stupid and/or cowards became rather tedious in the end. I'll buy the next book to see where he takes us but hoping for an effort more like the first adventure.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

Performance was good, not sure about all the accents but it's not easy