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Title: The Devil's Pact: (Jack Tanner: book 5)

Series: #5 of Jack Tanner

Author: James Holland

Narrator: David Thorpe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Release date: November 6, 2014

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Readers of Robert Harris, Bernard Cornwell and Ken Follett will love this all-action, high-octane wartime thriller from bestselling author and historian James Holland. With its authentic and vivid depiction of war, its gut-punchingly realistic battle scenes and its amazing characterisation, this is one not to miss! 'Absorbing and thoughtful as well as tense and exciting' -- Daily Telegraph 'A rollicking good and authentic read' -- ***** Reader review 'Fantastic - couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 'Terrific writing' -- ***** Reader review 'Great writer, great book. Buy anything by Holland and you will not be disappointed. Excellent!' -- ***** Reader review 'I have read all 5 books and they keep you enthralled from start to finish every time' -- ***** Reader review *************************************************************** Sicily, 1943: TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY, DIRTY DEALS MUST BE DONE... With North Africa secured, the Allies launch an invasion of Sicily, and the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Rangers are in the vanguard of the assault on the Italian beaches. But promotion to Company Commander has brought fresh trouble for Jack Tanner. Not only has his new Battalion Commander decided to make his life as difficult as possible, but they soon find themselves battling against some of the toughest, most determined troops in the Wehrmacht. In the bitter fighting that follows, Tanner witnesses a new reality. Forced to question the cause for which they have fought so long, Tanner and his trusted sidekick, Sykes, find themselves embroiled in a deeply personal fight, in which they have to use all their resolve, skill and experience if they are to stand any chance of survival... Have you read the other Jack Tanner adventures? Discover The Odin Mission, Darkest Hour, Blood of Honour and Hellfire now!

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Title: The Malice of Fortune

Author: Michael Ennis

Narrator: Carlotta Montanari, Adrian Paul, John Lee, Fred Sanders

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Release date: October 2, 2014

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When Pope Alexander Borgia dispatches Damiata, a beautiful courtesan, to the remote fortress city of Imola in Northern Italy to learn the truth behind the murder of his beloved son, she knows she cannot fail, for the Pope holds her own son hostage. Once there, Damiata falls under the spell of the charismatic Duke Valentino Borgia, whose own life is threatened by the condottieri, a powerful cabal of mercenary warlords. As the murders multiply, Damiata's search for the killer grows more urgent. And so she enlists the help of an obscure Florentine diplomat, Niccolò Machiavelli, and an eccentric military engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Together they begin to decipher the killer's taunting riddles: Leonardo with his groundbreaking 'science of observation' and Machiavelli with his new 'science of men.' Traveling across a land torn apart by war, Damiata and Machiavelli enter a labyrinth of ancient superstition and erotic obsession to discover at its center a new face of evil and a terrible secret - a secret is still to be found within the lines of Machiavelli's most controversial book, The Prince.

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Title: The Watch

Author: Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

Narrator: Zadran Wali, Reha Zamani, Kaleo Griffith, Kris Koscheski, Dustin Rubin, George Newbern, Richard Allen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Release date: September 4, 2014

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

'The first great novel of the war in Afghanistan' Wall Street Journal You’ve had no sleep since the firefight last night. The morning fog beyond the walls of your base lifts to reveal a lone woman approaching the gate. She says she has come to claim the body of her brother killed in last night’s attack. Is she a terrorist? A spy? A lunatic? Or what she says she is – a grieving sister? What should you do? What do you do? Shortlisted for the Criticos Prize and the Boeke Prize and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the DSC Asian Literature Prize. One of Publishers Weekly's Ten best contemporary war novels.

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Title: Another Time, Another Life: (The Story of a Crime 2)

Series: #2 of The Story of a Crime

Author: Leif G W Persson

Narrator: Erik Davies

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Release date: September 4, 2014

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Stockholm 1975. Six young people take the entire staff of the West German embassy hostage, demanding that the Baader-Meinhof members being held as prisoners in West Germany be released immediately. The long siege ends with the deaths of two hostages and the wounding of several others, including the captors. 1989: When a Swedish civil servant is murdered, the two leading detectives on the case, Anna Holt and Bo Jarnebring, find their investigation hastily shelved by an incompetent and corrupt senior investigator. 1999. Lars Johansson, having just joined the Swedish Security Police, decides to tie up a few loose ends left behind by his predecessor: specifically, two files on Swedes who had allegedly collaborated on the 1975 assault on the West German embassy, one of whom turned out to be the murder victim in 1989. Johansson reopens the investigation and, with help from detectives Jarnebring and Holt, follows the leads - right up the Swedish political ladder... Awarded Best Swedish Crime Novel by the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers on its original publication in 2003, Another Time, Another Life is an astonishingly accomplished and resonant thriller spanning twenty-five years, centred around the still-unsolved murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986.

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Title: The Winter Palace: A novel of the young Catherine the Great

Author: Eva Stachniak

Narrator: Beata Poźniak

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Release date: August 7, 2014

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When Vavara, a young orphaned Polish girl, is brought to serve at Empress Elizabeth's glittering, dangerous court in St Petersburg, she is schooled by the Chancellor himself in skills from lock-picking to love-making, learning above all else to stay silent - and listen. Soon, she is Elizabeth's 'tongue' - her secret eyes and ears. Then Sophie, a vulnerable young princess, arrives from Prussia as a prospective bride for Elizabeth's heir. Set to spy on her by the Empress, Vavara soon becomes her friend and confidante, and helps her navigate the illicit seductions and the treacherous shifting allegiances of the court.But Sophie's destiny is to become the notorious Catherine the Great. Are her ambitions more lofty and far-reaching than anyone suspected, and will she stop at nothing to achieve absolute power?

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Title: The Flowers of War

Author: Geling Yan

Narrator: Samantha Quan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Release date: August 7, 2014

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and Japan. But it becomes clear the Japanese are not obeying international rules of engagement. As they pour through the streets of Nanking, raping and pillaging the civilian population, the girls are in increasing danger. And their safety is further compromised when prostitutes from the nearby brothel climb over the wall into the compound seeking refuge. Short, powerful, vivid, this beautiful novel transports the reader to 1930s China. Full of wonderful characters, from the austere priest to the irreverent prostitutes, it is a story about how war upsets all prejudices and how love can flourish amidst death.

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Title: High Wild Desert

Author: Ralph Cotton

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Release date: July 4, 2014

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

WANTED: ONE DEAD RANGER Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is headed for Yuma, escorting Harvey ' Cisco' Lang to prison and Adele Simpson to safety. He knows full well of their shared romantic history, and even though Adele swears she' s done with Cisco, Burrack is keeping a hard eye on her as well as on the outlaw. But his companions are the least of his worries. A ruthless cattle baron has put a five-thousand-dollar price on Burrack' s head-- and every low-life bounty hunter and bandit across the Painted Desert is looking to claim it....

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Title: Digging to America

Author: Anne Tyler

Narrator: Blair Brown

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Release date: July 3, 2014

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Friday August 15th, 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. Every year, on the anniversary of 'Arrival Day' their two extended families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as little Susan and Jin-ho take roots and become American. Full of achingly hilarious moments and toe-curling misunderstandings, Digging to America is a novel about belonging and otherness, pride and prejudice, young love and unexpected old love, families and the impossibility of ever getting it right... OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD 'She's changed my perception on life' Anna Chancellor 'One of my favourite authors ' Liane Moriarty 'She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan 'Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve 'My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby 'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks 'Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good' John Updike 'I love Anne Tyler' Anita Brookner 'Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour' Eudora Welty © Anne Tyler 2006 (P) Penguin Audio 2014

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Title: Florida Straits

Series: #1 of Key West

Author: Laurence Shames

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Release date: May 30, 2014

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Top-notch suspense and 'killer' comedy merge in this rollicking national best-seller filled with funky characters, resounding dialogue and inappropriately named 'wise' guys. In the grand tradition of Elmore Leonard, Laurence Shames creates an outrageous heavyweight thriller that's heavy on atmosphere and action. Joey Goldman is a low level New York hustler. He's taking a working vacation in South Florida, and looking to score big with a time-share scam. His half brother Gino Delgatto is a man in need of a fall guy. When they meet in Key West, the term 'dysfunctional family' takes on a new meaning. Will one of them succeed, or will the Miami mob find an eye-popping way to dispose of them both? Critically-acclaimed narrator Richard Ferrone brings every character to life-from bad guys in shiny blue suits to Steve the naked landlord-with a crackling intensity you will love.

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Title: Fallout

Author: Sadie Jones

Narrator: Daniel Weyman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Release date: May 1, 2014

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

**** As read on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime **** Luke is a young playwright: intense, magnetic and hungry for experience. Fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East he arrives in London and shares a flat with Paul, an aspiring producer, and beautiful, fiery Leigh. The three of them set up a radical theatre company, their friendship forged in rehearsal rooms above pubs, candlelit power cuts, and smoky late-night parties, part of a thrilling new generation of writers, directors and rising voices. When Nina, a fragile actress, strays towards their group, Luke recognises a damaged soul and the balance between the friends is threatened. Luke is torn between loyalty, desire and his own painful past, until everything he values, even the promise of the future, is in danger. Suddenly the fallout threatens to be immense. A story of four young people in 1970s’ London fuelled by love, betrayal and creative ambition - now available as an audiobook.