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Author: David Barbaree
Format: Online
Author David Barbaree
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 10h 27m
A gripping historical thriller for fans of Robert Harris's Cicero trilogyA.D. 79. Parthia is gripped by civil war. One king vying for the throne, desperate for help, welcomes an alliance from an unlikely source: a man claiming to be Nero, the dethroned Roman emperor.Meanwhile, young Gaius wishes he could spend his summer on the Bay of Naples a...
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Author: Charles Dickens
Format: Online
Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 16h 17m
A workhouse orphan, Oliver escapes by running away to London. He gets drawn into the treacherous underworld of pickpockets and thieves headed by Fagin. His companions are ultimately destined for gruesome ends. Will Oliver emerge unscathed from the darkness of the underworld?
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Author: Paul Finch
Format: Online
Author Paul Finch
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 7h 30m
A collection of short stories by an award-winning master of horror and suspense. In The Poppet a faceless wooden doll holds the secret to a chilling curse . In Hell in the Cathedral, a bunch of tourists are marooned at the mercy of a voracious sea-beast . In The Baleful Dead an ageing heavy metal band reunite at a lonely mansion, unaware of the blo...
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Author: Richard Overy
Format: Online
Author Richard Overy
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 4h 12m
The dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years from the first flight by the Wright Brothers to the clash of fighter planes in the Great War. A period of terrible, rapid experiment followed to gain a brief technological edge. By the end of the war the British had lost an extraordin...
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Author: Sarah Kilgarriff
Format: Online
Author Sarah Kilgarriff
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 2h 12m
A unique collection of historic recordings in which the last brutal encounters of the war and the mixed emotions of the armistice are remembered by troops from both sides. By the end of March 1918, Germany's Spring Offensive had thrown British forces back over the old Somme battlefields. But this last push failed and with the stalemate of trench wa...
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Manchester's Finest: How the Munich Air Disaster Broke the Heart of A Great City
Author: David Hall
Format: Online
Author David Hall
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 10h 51m
On 6 February 1958, British European Airways flight 609 crashed in a blizzard on its third attempt to take off from an icy runaway in Munich. On board were the Manchester United football team as well as a number of journalists and other passengers. News of the disaster sent shockwaves around the world. For people who lived in Manchester at the time...
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Author: Giles Milton
Format: Online
Author Giles Milton
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 12h 19m
Shortly after the outbreak of the WW2, a country house called The Firs in Buckinghamshire was requisitioned by the War Office. Sentries were posted at the entrance gates, and barbed wire was strung around the perimeter fence. To local villagers it looked like a prison camp. But the truth was far more sinister. This rambling Edwardian mansion had be...
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Author: Lord Byron
Format: Online
Author Lord Byron
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 15h 18m
Lord Byron's satirical take on the legend of Don Juan is a moving and witty poem that sees the young hero in a reversal of roles. Juan sheds his image as a womanizer and instead becomes the victim of circumstance as he is relentlessly pursued by every woman he meets. Comprising seventeen cantos of rhyming iambic pentameter, the poem is a crisp and...
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Author: Niall Ferguson
Format: Online
Author Niall Ferguson
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 16h 11m
Penguin presents the unabridged audiobook edition of Empire by Niall Ferguson, read by Jonathan Keeble. Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North At...
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The Last Kingdom Book 1: The Last Kingdom
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Format: Online
Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
SeriesThe Last Kingdom, Book 1
Duration 13h 29m
The first book in a brand-new series, The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at 10, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules...
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The Last Kingdom Book 2: The Pale Horseman
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Format: Online
Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
SeriesThe Last Kingdom, Book 2
Duration 14h 12m
A Saxon raised by Vikings. A pagan fighting for a Christian King. The conflict at the heart of a hero will be played out in the fight for England. It is 877. Across the kingdoms of Britain the Danes are gaining strength. Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a pagan warrior, must decide who he will align with: the Vikings who raised him or Alfred, King of the West...
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The Last Kingdom Book 3: The Lords of the North
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Format: Online
Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
SeriesThe Last Kingdom, Book 3
Duration 12h 50m
Enter a world where bloody battles and heroic deeds combine in the historic struggle to unite Britain in the face of a common enemy. The year is 878 and the Vikings have been thrown out of Wessex. Uhtred, fresh from fighting for Alfred in the battle to free Wessex, travels north to seek revenge for his father's death, killed in a bloody raid by Uht...
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The Last Kingdom Book 4: Sword Song
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Format: Online
Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
SeriesThe Last Kingdom, Book 4
Duration 11h 33m
The fourth in the best-selling Alfred series from number-one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell. The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and Alfred's kingdom of Wessex in the south. But trouble stirs, a dead man has risen and new Vikings have arrived to occupy London. It is a dangerous time, and...
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Author: Ben Okri
Format: Online
Author Ben Okri
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 5h 17m
The new novel from the Booker and Commonwealth Prize winning author, is an intoxicating and absorbing tale. Eight weary film-makers, travelling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three d...
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