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Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen
Author: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
SeriesSix Tudor Queens, Book 1
Duration 27h 43m
The lives of Henry VIII's queens make for dramatic stories, and Alison Weir writes a series of novels that offer insights into the real lives of the six wives based on extensive research and new theories. In all the romancing, has anyone regarded the evidence that Anne Boleyn did not love Henry VIII? Or that Prince Arthur, Katherine of Aragon's fi...
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Lancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses
Author: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 22h 25m
A riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from the beloved and bestselling historian Alison Weir The war between the houses of Lancaster and York was characterised by treachery, deceit and bloody battles. Alison Weir's lucid and gripping account focuses on the human side of history. At the centre of the book stands Henry VI, the pious king whose...
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Author: Paula Byrne
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Author Paula Byrne
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 6h 20m
This is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England Dido Belle was the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy captain and a slave woman, adopted by the Earl of Mansfield. As Lord Chief Justice of England he would preside over the drowning of 142 slaves by a shipping...
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Author: Charity Norman
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Author Charity Norman
Narrator Gordon Griffin, Maggie Mash
Duration 14h
What would you do if you found out that your husband, your father, your son - was not who you thought? Could you ever love him again? Luke Livingstone is a lucky man. He's a respected solicitor, a father and grandfather, a pillar of the community. He has a loving wife and an idyllic home in the Oxfordshire countryside. Yet Luke is struggling with a...
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Author: Kristina Ohlsson
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Author Kristina Ohlsson
Narrator Maggie Mash
SeriesFredrika Bergman and Alex Recht, Book 1
Duration 14h 6m
A little girl is abducted from a crowded train. Her mother, left behind at the previous station, alerts the crew immediately. But as the train pulls into Stockholm Central Station, the girl is nowhere to be seen. To Inspector Alex Recht of the Stockholm police, this looks like a classic custody row. But none of the evidence adds up and Investigativ...
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Author: Kristina Ohlsson
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Author Kristina Ohlsson
Narrator Maggie Mash
SeriesFredrika Bergman and Alex Recht, Book 2
Duration 13h 9m
Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl is assaulted and raped as she picks flowers. Cut to the present, and a man is killed in a hit and run. He has no identification, he is not reported missing nor wanted by the police. At the same time, a priest and his wife are found dead in an apparent suicide. Fredrika Bergman, along with Alex Recht's federal inves...
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Author: Kristina Ohlsson
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Author Kristina Ohlsson
Narrator Maggie Mash
SeriesFredrika Bergman and Alex Recht, Book 4
Duration 14h
Shortly after a crowded New York-bound flight takes off from Stockholm, a bomb threat is found on board. Anonymous hijackers demand that the Swedish government revoke its decision to deport a Moroccan man. If their demands are not met, the plane will explode if it attempts to land. The US and Swedish governments must choose between negotiating with...
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Author: Kristina Ohlsson
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Author Kristina Ohlsson
Narrator Maggie Mash
SeriesFredrika Bergman and Alex Recht, Book 3
Duration 16h 4m
The body of a young woman is found buried in a forest glade in a Swedish suburb. Alex Recht and his team in the Stockholm Police soon identify the body as that of missing student, Rebecca Trolle, but as excavation continues, they soon find that someone has been returning to the same spot to bury their victims year after year. Investigative Analyst...
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Author: Glenice Crossland
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Author Glenice Crossland
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 11h 26m
When seventeen-year-old Mary O'Connor collapses one Sunday in church she is taken to live with Dr Roberts and his wife in a beautiful Yorkshire village for her health. Though initially employed as a maid, Mary soon becomes the daughter the couple were never able to have. With Britain at war, unable to remain idle, Mary finds employment in the local...
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Author: Crossland Glenice
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Author Crossland Glenice
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 12h 5m
In the small Yorkshire town of Cottenly - dominated by the steel works and surrounded by beautiful countryside - Isaac Stanford lives with his wife Emily and their three lovely daughters, known locally as the Stanford lasses. Alice, the eldest, lives only for her work as a secretary and chapel on Sunday. Fair and loving Lizzie is content with her j...
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Author: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Gerri Halligan, Maggie Mash
Duration 16h 5m
Ellen Trawton is running away from it all-literally. She's getting married to a man she doesn't love, her job is depressing and her mother is getting on her nerves. So she escapes to the one place she knows her mother won't follow her-her aunt's house in rural Ireland. Once there, she uncovers a dark family secret-and a future she never knew she mi...
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Author: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 23h 5m
Acclaimed historian Alison Weir looks into the life of the first Tudor queen, revealing the woman behind the image Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. One of the key figures of the Wars of the Roses, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, she married Henry Tudor to bring peace to a war-torn Eng...
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Author: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 25h 51m
The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London, Catherine hears ghostly voices; echoes, she thinks, of a crime committed in the same room...
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Author: Stella Rimmington
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Author Stella Rimmington
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 11h 4m
MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting with her boss Charles Wetherby, head of the Service's Counter-Espionage Branch. His counterpart over at MI6 has received alarming intelligence from a high-placed Syrian source. The future of the whole of the Middle East is at stake and the deadline for action is drawing ever closer...
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