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Author: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Daniel Philpott
Duration 8h 34m
When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless, homeless waif in the engaging shape of Cherry Steane, who else should he turn to in such a scrape but his childhood playmate, Henrietta Silverdale? And although they refused to oblige their parents by marrying, they have always been the best of friends. But as...
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Author: Guy Walters
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Author Guy Walters
Narrator Daniel Philpott
Duration 18h 21m
At the end of the Second World War, some of the highest ranking Nazis escaped from justice, Aided and abetted by the Vatican, they travelled down secret 'rat lines' and were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. Vengeful Holocaust survivors and inept politicains attempted to bring them to justice and there were daring plots to kidnap or assass...
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Author: Diane Setterfield
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Author Diane Setterfield
Narrator Daniel Philpott
Duration 9h 48m
As a boy, William Bellman commits one small cruel act that appears to have unforeseen and terrible consequences. The killing of a rook with his catapult is soon forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games. And by the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, he seems indeed, to be a man blessed by fortune. Until tragedy strikes, and the...
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Author: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Daniel Philpott
Duration 7h 11m
Everyone expected Isabella Charteris, beautiful, sheltered and aristocratic, to marry her cousin Rupert when he came back from the War. It would have been such a suitable marriage. How strange then that John Gabriel, an ambitious and ruthless war hero, should appear in her life. For Isabella, the price of love would mean abandoning her dreams of ho...
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Author: Tony Bradman
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Author Tony Bradman
Narrator Daniel Philpott
Duration 3h 23m
Gunnar is the son of a Viking chieftain, living peacefully with his mother, father and their people - until they are raided by Skuli and his Wolf Men, who raze his home to the ground and take his father's life. Gunnar swears to avenge his father's death and save his mother from Skuli - but first he must run to save himself facing murderous raiders,...
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Author: Rose Impey
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Author Rose Impey
Narrator Daniel Philpott
Duration 1h 42m
It's a huge surprise when Farmer Palmer chooses Lewie the llama to guard his new lambs. It's the most important job on the farm and everyone thought he'd pick the biggest strongest, loudest llama. Lewie is the best at singing and dancing but is he a match for a cunning coyote?
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The Stone Circle: Ruth Galloway Book 11
Author: Elly Griffiths
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Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Daniel Philpott
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 11
Duration 11h 58m
DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters telling him to 'go to the stone circle and rescue the innocent who is buried there'. He is shaken, not only because children are very much on his mind, with Michelle's baby due to be born, but because although the letters are anonymous, they are somehow familiar. They read like the letters that firs...
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Author: Elly Griffiths
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Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Daniel Philpott
SeriesBrighton Mysteries, Book 2
Duration 8h 12m
Brighton, 1951. Pantomime season is in full swing with Max Mephisto starring in Aladdin. But Max's headlines have been stolen by the disappearance of two children. With fairy tales in the air, it's not long before the press have a nickname: 'Hansel and Gretel'. DI Edgar Stephens has plenty of leads to investigate. Does the clue lie in the missing g...
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Author: Michael Morpurgo
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Author Michael Morpurgo
Narrator Daniel Philpott
Duration 1h 17m
The heart-lifting, heartbreaking new story by Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller. In the Imperial War Museum is a wooden Dachshund, carved by a German prisoner of war for the children of the British family with which he stayed after the fighting ended. This is the story of how it got there. When the Bismarck sinks, one of the only...
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Author: H.G. Wells
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Author H.G. Wells
Narrator Daniel Philpott
Duration 5h 15m
The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year.
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Author: Elly Griffiths
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Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Daniel Philpott
SeriesBrighton Mysteries, Book 1
Duration 8h 2m
When the body of a girl is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick: the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick is an old friend of Edgar's. They served together in the war as part of a shadowy unit called the Magic Men. When Edgar receives a letter warning of another 'trick', the Wolf Trap, he knows t...
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Author: Gerald Seymour
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Author Gerald Seymour
Narrator Daniel Philpott
Duration 16h 8m
Farideh's husband is a corporal in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, entrapped by MI6 for interrogation. His job as a driver to a top general has left him with potentially valuable knowledge, but he won't talk unless Farideh is brought out of Iran. The SAS say it's too dangerous, but the director of the operation doesn't want to lose his prize. He a...
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