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Title: The Bleeding Land: (Civil War: 1): a powerful, engaging and tumultuous novel confronting one of England’s bloodiest periods of history

Series: #1 of The Bleeding Land

Author: Giles Kristian

Narrator: Anthony May

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Written by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lancelot, Giles Kristian, and perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden, this is a high-octone, gripping and affecting novel set during England's brutal and bloody Civil War. 'A brilliant read.... Full of tragedy and triumph, honour and treachery, The Bleeding Land is a thrilling tour-de-force.' -- BEN KANE 'Expertly plotted, full of passion and bloody drama...Read it: you'll love every page.' -- M. C. SCOTT 'Visceral, brutal and genuinely moving, this is historical fiction at it's thrilling best.' -- SAUL DAVID 'From touching moments of emotional heartbreak to gut wrenching pitched battles, full of epic sweep and gory detail, this novel will grab you and won't let go till you finish' -- ***** Reader review 'Well written and meticulously researched. Highly recommended.' -- ***** Reader review 'Simply mesmerising' -- ***** Reader review *********************************************************** A COUNTRY IS ABOUT TO TEAR ITSELF APART... England 1642: A NATION DIVIDED. England is at war with itself. King Charles and Parliament each gather soldiers to their banners. Across the land men prepare to fight for their religious and political ideals. Civil war has begun. A FAMILY RIPPED ASUNDER. The Rivers are landed gentry, and tradition dictates that their allegiance is to the King. Just as Edmund, the eldest of Sir Francis' sons, will do his duty, so his brother Tom will turn his back on all he once believed in... A WAR THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. From the raising of the King's Standard at Nottingham to the butchery and blood of Edgehill, Edmund and Tom Rivers will each learn of honour, sacrifice, hatred and betrayal as they follow their chosen paths through this most savage of wars.

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Title: The Light Between Oceans

Author: M L Stedman

Narrator: Noah Taylor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 33

Ratings of Narrator: 4.13 of Total 8

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The crying persisted. The door of the ligthhouse clanged in the distance, and Tom's tall frame appeared on the gallery as he scanned the island with the binoculars. 'Izzy!' he yelled, 'a boat!' He vanished and re-emerged at ground level. 'It's a boat all right,' Tom declared. 'And – oh cripes! There's a bloke, but –' The figure was motionless, yet the cries still rang out. He hoisted out a woollen bundle: a woman's soft lavender cardigan wrapped around a tiny, screaming infant. Tom Sherbourne, released from the horrors of the First World War, is now a lighthouse keeper, cocooned on a remote island with his young wife Izzy, who is content in everything but her failure to have a child. One April morning, a boat washes ashore carrying a dead man - and a crying baby. Safe from the real world, Tom and Izzy break the rules and follow their hearts. It is a decision with devastating consequences. Australian actor NOAH TAYLOR made his name in critically acclaimed films such as The Year My Voice Broke and Shine, and has also appeared in high-profile blockbusters such as the two Lara Croft Tomb Raider films and Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He recently starred in the accomplished British comedy Submarine.

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Title: The Prague Cemetery

Author: Umberto Eco

Narrator: Sean Barrett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Release date: April 3, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Nineteenth-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to the notorious forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies both real and imagined, lay just one man? What if that evil genius created the most infamous document of all?

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Title: The Beloved Land

Series: #5 of Song of Acadia

Author: Janette Oke, Davis Bunn

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Release date: March 30, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The best-selling Song of Acadia series follows the affairs of two sisters, from the French expulsion from Nova Scotia to the turmoil of the American Revolution. Anne in England and Nicole in America are separated by an ocean, but their hearts are still close. When they each receive a letter, they are suddenly called on a perilous journey back to their beloved homeland.

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Title: The Uninvited Guests

Author: Sadie Jones

Narrator: Emilia Fox

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Release date: March 22, 2012

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honour of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savoury survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor - and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief. The cook toils over mock turtle soup and a chocolate cake covered with green sugar roses, which the hungry band of visitors are not invited to taste. But nothing, it seems, will go to plan. As the passengers wearily search for rest, the house undergoes a strange transformation. One of their number (who is most definitely not a gentleman) makes it his business to join the birthday revels. Evening turns to stormy night, and a most unpleasant game threatens to blow respectability to smithereens: Smudge Torrington, the wayward youngest daughter of the house, decides that this is the perfect moment for her Great Undertaking. The Uninvited Guests is the bewitching new novel from number one bestseller Sadie Jones. The prizewinning author of The Outcast triumphs in this frightening yet delicious drama of dark surprises - where social codes are uprooted and desire daringly trumps propriety - and all is alight with Edwardian wit and opulence.

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Title: Spartacus: The Gladiator: (Spartacus 1)

Series: #1 of Spartacus

Author: Ben Kane

Narrator: Michael Praed

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Release date: January 19, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. The first of two epic novels which tell the story of one of the most charismatic heroes history has ever known - Spartacus, the gladiator slave who took on and nearly defeated the might of Rome, during the years 73-71 BC. Historically very little is known about Spartacus. We know that he came from Thrace, a land north of Greece, that he once fought in the Roman legions and that, during two fateful years, he led a slave army which nearly brought Rome to its knees. In Ben Kane's brilliant novel, we meet Spartacus as he returns to Thrace, ready to settle down after a decade away. But a new king has usurped the throne. Treacherous and violent, he immediately seizes Spartacus and sells him to a Roman slave trader looking for new gladiators. The odyssey has begun which will see Spartacus become one of the greatest legends of history, the hero of revolutionaries from Karl Marx to Che Guevara, immortalised on screen, and now brought to life in Ben Kane's great bestseller - a novel which takes the story to its halfway point and is continued in Spartacus: Rebellion. Ben Kane was born in Kenya and raised there and in Ireland. He studied veterinary medicine and University College, Dublin, but after that he travelled the world extensively, indulging in his passion for ancient history. He lives in North Somerset with his wife and two young children. © Ben Kane 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2012

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Title: Ghost Warrior

Author: Lucia St. Clair Robson

Narrator: Kris Faulkner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 22 hours 0 minutes

Release date: January 15, 2012

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

For more than a century, Apaches have kept alive the memory of their hero Lozen. This beautiful, valiant warrior and revered shaman fought alongside Geronimo, Cochise, and her own brother, Victorio, holding out against the armies of both the United States and Mexico. Lozen has known since childhood that the spirits have chosen her to defend Apache freedom. As the U.S. Army prepares to move her people to an Arizona reservation, Lozen forsakes marriage and motherhood to fight among the men. Rafe Collins is a young adventurer and a veteran of the Mexican War. On a dangerous journey between El Paso and Santa Fe, he builds an unlikely but enduring rapport with Lozen. Together they must undertake a perilous course that will change their lives and American history forever.

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Title: The Road to Rome: (The Forgotten Legion Chronicles No. 3)

Author: Ben Kane

Narrator: Michael Praed

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Having survived the perils of a journey across half the world, Romulus and Tarquinius are press-ganged into the legions, which are under imminent threat of annihilation by the Egyptians. Meanwhile in Rome, Romulus's twin sister Fabiola lives in fear for her life, loved by Brutus, but wooed by Marcus Antonius, his deadly enemy. Soon after, Romulus fights at Zela, the vicious battle where Caesar famously said, 'Veni, vidi, vici'. Tarquinius, separated from Romulus in the chaos of war, hides in Alexandria, searching for guidance. But mortal danger awaits them both. From the battlefields of Asia Minor and North Africa, to the lawless streets of Rome and the gladiator arena, they face death daily, until on the Ides of March, the twins are reunited and must decide either to back or to betray Caesar on his day of destiny.

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Title: The Ghost of Lily Painter

Author: Caitlin Davies

Narrator: Mike Grady, Julie Maisey, Annie Aldington, Jilly Bond

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Release date: November 17, 2011

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The first time Annie Sweet sees 43 Stanley Road, the house is so perfect she almost feels as though it has chosen her. But with her husband seeming more distant, and her daughter wrapped up in her friends and new school, Annie is increasingly left alone to mull over the past. She soon becomes consumed by the house and everyone who has lived there before her, especially a young music hall singer called Lily Painter, whose sparkling performances were the talk of London. As Annie delves further into the past she unravels the case of two notorious baby farmers, who cruelly preyed on vulnerable unmarried mothers. And until she solves the mystery at the heart of the scandal, the ghost of Lily Painter will never be able to rest. Basing her story on true events, Caitlin Davies skilfully blends fact and fiction to bring to life part of our sinister past. Spanning an entire century, from the journals of an Edwardian police inspector to a doomed wartime love affair, The Ghost of Lily Painter is a gripping and poignant novel.

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Title: Roots

Author: Alex Haley

Narrator: Avery Brooks

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 30 hours 9 minutes

Release date: October 20, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Tracing his ancestory through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.