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James Marwood & Cat Lovett Book 1: The Ashes of London
Author: Andrew Taylor
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Author Andrew Taylor
Narrator Leighton Pugh
SeriesJames Marwood & Cat Lovett, Book 1
Duration 12h 59m
From the number one best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand-new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London. The first of an exciting new series of novels. London, September 1666. The Great Fire rages through the city, consuming everything in its path. Even the impregnabl...
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Author: Yanis Varoufakis
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Author Yanis Varoufakis
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 20h 14m
Varoufakis sparked one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in recent political history when, as finance minister of Greece, he attempted to re-negotiate his country's relationship with the EU. Despite the mass support of the Greek people and the simple logic of his arguments, he succeeded only in provoking the fury of Europe's politic...
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Author: Serhii Plokhy
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Author Serhii Plokhy
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 13h 35m
On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine. The outburst put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation. In the end, less than five percent of the reactor's fuel escaped, but that was enough to contaminate over half of...
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Author: Jamie Mollart
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Author Jamie Mollart
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 9h 22m
James Marlowe puts in long alcohol and cocaine fuelled hours as an advertising director. As his life disintegrates around him he comes to despise his clients, the corporate world, and himself. Now his imagination is fired by a set of characters he calls The Zoo. They lead him into a world crazier than the one that's thrown him out. The way back to...
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Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 1h 12m
John and Nicky have never eaten spaghetti and would give anything for the occasional bowl of chips or piece of chocolate cake. But they live with their rather strange aunt who insists upon health food diets. When they use some birthday money to go out for lunch, they experience the delights of spaghetti and decide that they simply have to have more...
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Author: Chris Priestly
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Author Chris Priestly
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 2h 50m
Sam and Lizzie are freezing and hungry on the streets of Victorian London. When Sam asks a wealthy man for some coins, he is rudely turned away, and Sam resolves to kill the man. Huddling in a graveyard, Sam and Lizzie are horrified to see the earth around one of the tombs begin to shift. A ghostly figure warns Sam about the future which awaits suc...
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Author: Emile Zola
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Author Emile Zola
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 19h 55m
Germinal is one of the most striking novels in the French tradition. Widely regarded as Zola's masterpiece, the novel describes the working conditions of French coalminers in the 1860s in harsh and realistic terms it is visceral, graphic and unrelenting. Its strong socialist principles and vivid accounts of the miners' strikes meant that the novel...
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Author: Neil Spring
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Author Neil Spring
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 13h
At the height of the Cold War, officials at the Ministry of Defence conducted a highly secret investigation into unusual events that occurred along a strip of rugged Pembrokeshire coastline. The events made national headlines: objects hovering in the sky, ghostly figures peering into windows and poltergeists plaguing a terrified family. Thirty year...
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume Iii: 1667-1669
Author: Samuel Pepys
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Author Samuel Pepys
Narrator Leighton Pugh
SeriesThe Diary of Samuel Pepys, Book 3
Duration 36h 3m
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the Navy Office, it is an intimate portrait of life in 17th-century England, covering his professional and personal activities, including, famously, his love of music, the...
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume Ii: 1664-1666
Author: Samuel Pepys
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Author Samuel Pepys
Narrator Leighton Pugh
SeriesThe Diary of Samuel Pepys, Book 2
Duration 37h 30m
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the naval office, it is an intimate portrait of life in 17th-century England covering his professional and personal activities, including, famously, his love of music, the...
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume I: 1660-1663
Author: Samuel Pepys
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Author Samuel Pepys
Narrator Leighton Pugh
SeriesThe Diary of Samuel Pepys, Book 1
Duration 42h 46m
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the naval office, it is an intimate portrait of life in 17th-century England covering his professional and personal activities, including, famously, his love of music, the...
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The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood
Author: John Lewis-Stempel
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Author John Lewis-Stempel
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 6h 32m
For four years John Lewis-Stempel managed the wood. He coppiced the trees and raised cows and pigs who roamed free there. This is the diary of the last year, by which time he had come to know it from the bottom of its beech roots to the tip of its oaks, and to know all the animals that lived there - the fox, the pheasants, the wood mice, the tawny...
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Author: Lisa Jewell
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Author Lisa Jewell
Narrator Antonia Beamish, Leighton Pugh
Duration 13h 24m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Vince and Joy by Lisa Jewell, read by Antonia Beamish and Leighton Pugh. 'You know that was the best thing that ever happened to me, don't you?' She smiled. 'Me, too.' July, 1986. Vince and Joy have their whole lives ahead of them on the day they meet. Two weeks later they must part, each having lost a piec...
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Author: Sarah Perry
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Author Sarah Perry
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 6h 30m
One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind. When his car breaks down on an isolated road, he goes looking for help and stumbles upon a grand but dilapidated house. Its residents claim to have been waiting for him.... There's Hester, their controlling host; Alex and Claire, siblings full of childlike wonder; the mercurial Eve;...
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