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House of Cards Book 3: The Final Cut
Author: Michael Dobbs
Format: Online
Author Michael Dobbs
Narrator Samuel West
SeriesHouse of Cards, Book 3
Duration 13h 43m
Francis Urquhart’s eventful career as Prime Minister comes to a spectacular end in the final volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy - now reissued in audio. He schemed his way to power in House of Cards and had a memorable battle of wills with the new king in To Play the King. Now Francis Urquhart is about to take his place in the record book...
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House of Cards Book 2: To Play the King
Author: Michael Dobbs
Format: Online
Author Michael Dobbs
Narrator Samuel West
SeriesHouse of Cards, Book 2
Duration 9h
Newly elected Prime Minister Francis Urquhart takes on the new King in the controversial number one best-selling second volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy - now reissued in audio. After scheming his way to power in House of Cards, Francis Urquhart made a triumphant return in To Play the King - a Sunday Times number one best-seller that became a...
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House of Cards Book 1: House of Cards
Author: Michael Dobbs
Format: Online
Author Michael Dobbs
Narrator Samuel West
SeriesHouse of Cards, Book 1
Duration 10h 37m
The acclaimed political thriller that first introduced the unforgettable Francis Urquhart MP and launched Michael Dobbs’ best-selling career. Michael Dobbs’ entertaining tale of skulduggery and intrigue within the Palace of Westminster has been a huge hit with the public. Its scheming hero, Chief Whip Francis Urquhart, who uses fair mea...
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Author: Henry James
Format: Online
Author Henry James
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 1h 35m
A BBC Radio 4 "Book at Bedtime" recording of Samuel West reading from the novella The Aspern Papers by Henry James, set against the decaying grandeur of Venice. Originally broadcast 26 April - 4 May 2010. Henry James took as inspiration for his tale The Aspern Papers the story of a mistress of Byron's who outlived the poet into lonely old age. H...
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Author: Sebastian Faulks
Format: Online
Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator Rupert Degas, Samuel West, Christian Rodska, Sian Thomas, Lucy Briars
Duration 10h
Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire. Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse, a father too ashamed to acknowledge his son. A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar; her voice sends shivers through the skull. Soldiers and lover...
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Author: Iris Murdoch
Format: Online
Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 9h
Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him int...
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