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Behind the Author's Desk: Dramas of Famous Writers' Real Lives
- A BBC Radio 4 Drama Collection
- By: Lucy Caldwell Caldwell, Stephen Wakelam, Katie Hims, and others
- Narrated by: Andrew Scott, Glenda Jackson, Toby Jones, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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18 biographical dramas based on the lives and loves of celebrated writers.
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Behind the Author's Desk: Dramas of Famous Writers' Real Lives
- A BBC Radio 4 Drama Collection
- Narrated by: Andrew Scott, Glenda Jackson, Toby Jones, Haydn Gwynne, Alistair McGowan, Ian McDiarmid, Richard Dormer, full cast, Paul Ritter, Tom Goodman-Hill
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 24-06-21
- Language: English
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Penelope: Tudor Baroness
- The Elizabethan Series, Book 4
- By: Tony Riches
- Narrated by: Ruth Redman
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Lady Penelope Rich is one of the most beautiful and sought-after women in Elizabethan England. The daughter of the Earl of Essex, she is married to the wealthy Baron Robert Rich. Penelope's life is full of love and scandal. The inspiration for Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnet "Astrophel and Stella", she is involved in the Essex Rebellion. A complex and fascinating woman, her life is a story of love, betrayal, and tragedy.
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Penelope: Tudor Baroness
- The Elizabethan Series, Book 4
- Narrated by: Ruth Redman
- Series: The Elizabethan Series, Book 4
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 03-11-23
- Language: English
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
- By: Tadeusz Borowski, Barbara Vedder - translator, Michael Kandel - translator
- Narrated by: Roy McCrerey
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion, and prisoners eat, work, and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket, or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes.
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Phenomenal
- By Fantastic on 02-07-24
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
- Narrated by: Roy McCrerey
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 14-02-21
- Language: English
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La Petite Boulain
- Above All Others; The Lady Anne, Book 1
- By: G. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Marnye Young
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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May 1536, London...a fallen queen sits waiting in the Tower of London, condemned to death by her husband. As death looms before her, Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII, looks back on her life...from the very beginning.
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Beautiful story, beautifully read
- By Sestius on 22-04-24
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La Petite Boulain
- Above All Others; The Lady Anne, Book 1
- Narrated by: Marnye Young
- Series: Above All Others The Lady Anne, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 28-12-22
- Language: English
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Her Hidden Genius
- A Novel
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider - brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets. Rosalind knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture - one more after thousands - she can unlock the building blocks of life.
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Interesting content.
- By Amazon Customer on 18-03-26
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Her Hidden Genius
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 25-01-22
- Language: English
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Cleopatra
- A Novel
- By: Saara El-Arifi
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife. “Enchanting, smart, and subversive—this is El-Arifi’s masterpiece”—RF Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis...
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Cleopatra
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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What Remains Is Hope
- The Heppenheimer Family Holocaust Saga, Book 2
- By: Bonnie Suchman
- Narrated by: Deborah Kosnett
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Beginning in 1930s Germany and based on their real lives, four cousins as close as siblings—Bettina, Trudi, Gustav, and Gertrud—share the experiences of the young, including first loves, marriages, and children. Bettina, the oldest, struggles to help her parents with their failing business. Trudi dresses in the latest fashions and tries to make everything look beautiful. Gustav is an artist at heart and hopes to one day open a tailoring shop. Gertrud, the youngest, is forced by her parents to keep secrets, but that doesn’t stop her from chasing boys.
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A Moving Story of Family and Survival
- By Olivia G on 24-03-26
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What Remains Is Hope
- The Heppenheimer Family Holocaust Saga, Book 2
- Narrated by: Deborah Kosnett
- Series: The Heppenheimer Family Holocaust Saga, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 02-12-25
- Language: English
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Wheel of Fortune
- The Tarnished Crown Series, Book 1
- By: C. F. Dunn
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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1469. For almost ten years, Edward IV has ruled with the Earl of Warwick's support, but now rebellion threatens the fragile peace. Heiress Isobel Fenton is determined not to be separated from her beloved manor of Beaumancote. But as unseen witness to a summary execution, she is propelled into the world of personal feud and national politics. She's left in the protection of the formidable Earl, who has begun to foment rebellion, but is set to marry his enemy's heir, Thomas Lacey.
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Fantastic
- By Anna P. on 29-08-25
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Wheel of Fortune
- The Tarnished Crown Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell
- Series: The Tarnished Crown Series, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 01-03-25
- Language: English
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Crudo
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Olivia Laing
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Read by the author, Olivia Laing. 'I couldn't put it down' – Sally Rooney, author of Normal People Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Kathy spends the first summer of her forties trying to adjust to making a lifelong...
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Highly recommend this work from a brilliant writer
- By Brooke on 26-11-18
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Crudo
- Narrated by: Olivia Laing
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 28-06-18
- Language: English
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The Second Mrs. Astor
- By: Shana Abe
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Madeleine Talmage Force is just 17 when she attracts the attention of John Jacob "Jack" Astor. Jack's mother was the Mrs. Astor, American royalty and New York's most formidable socialite. Despite their 29-year age difference and the scandal of Jack's recent divorce, Madeleine falls headlong into love. On their honeymoon in Egypt, the newlyweds finally find a measure of peace away from photographers and journalists. Madeleine feels truly alive for the first time - and is happily pregnant. The couple plans to return home in the spring of 1912, aboard an opulent new ocean liner.
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Great narration
- By charlotte whitcombe on 28-01-26
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The Second Mrs. Astor
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 31-08-21
- Language: English
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The Queen's Sister
- A vivid and imaginative historical novel of a life among the wives of King Henry VIII
- By: Carol McGrath
- Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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A mother, a wife, a woman of substance... At nineteen, Elizabeth Seymour is already a mother, has been recently widowed, and seen her Queen, Anne Boleyn, lose her life. Against the wishes of her father, she heads North, away from Wulf Hall and the court in London to Yorkshire, determined to...
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The Queen's Sister
- A vivid and imaginative historical novel of a life among the wives of King Henry VIII
- Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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Young Victoria
- A BBC Radio 4 Drama
- By: Juliet Ace
- Narrated by: Adrian Lukis, Anna Massey, Christopher Cazenove, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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This illuminating serial charts the transformation of the young Victoria from spirited teenager to shy young bride to celebrated ruler of Britain and ‘Mother of Europe’. But while her roles changed, her essential nature remained the same: vibrant, passionate, principled and fiercely independent. Through extracts from Victoria’s own diaries and letters, and dramatised episodes featuring the characters closest to her, we are given thrilling insight into the thoughts and feelings of the woman behind the crown - and the secrets of her mind and heart.
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A Beautiful Portrayal In Victoria’s Own Words
- By Highlight on 23-08-18
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Young Victoria
- A BBC Radio 4 Drama
- Narrated by: Adrian Lukis, Anna Massey, Christopher Cazenove, full cast, Imogen Stubbs, John Rowe, Selina Cadell
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 02-08-18
- Language: English
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The Stars and Their Light
- A Novel
- By: Olivia Hawker
- Narrated by: Jackie Zebrowski
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1947 when Sister Mary Agnes arrives in New Mexico. Her mission is to establish a monastery in the town of Roswell, where weeks before rumors of the crash landing of an unidentified craft have triggered a crisis of faith. Residents are drifting away from the divine, awed no longer by the heavens but rather the stars.
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The Stars and Their Light
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jackie Zebrowski
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-04-25
- Language: English
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Los nombres de Feliza [Happy's Names]
- By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
- Narrated by: Juan Sebastián Aragón
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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El 8 de enero de 1982, la escultora colombiana Feliza Bursztyn murió en un restaurante de París. Tenía cuarenta y ocho años. En el momento de su muerte repentina la acompañaban su marido y cuatro amigos. Uno de ellos, el escritor Gabriel García Márquez, publicó días después un artículo que incluía tres palabras en apariencia simples, pero misteriosas en el fondo: «Murió de tristeza».
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Los nombres de Feliza [Happy's Names]
- Narrated by: Juan Sebastián Aragón
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 16-01-25
- Language: Spanish
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The Cromwell Enigma
- By: Derek Wilson
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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July 1540: the shocking news of Cromwell's fall reaches the court of Margaret of Navarre, sister of Francis I of France and arguably the most cultured woman north of the Alps. She sends her courtier and poet, Nicolas Bourbon, an avid reformer with many friends in English court circles, to find out what is happening. What Bourbon discovers from members of Cromwell's family, his proteges and his enemies sets him on what becomes a hazardous quest for the real man behind all the competing versions on offer.
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The Cromwell Enigma
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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Désorientale suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteure
- By: Négar Djavadi
- Narrated by: Lila Tamazit
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Née à Téhéran, exilée à Paris depuis ses dix ans, Kimiâ a toujours essayé de tenir à distance son pays, sa culture, sa famille. Mais les djinns échappés du passé la rattrapent pour faire défiler l'étourdissant diaporama de l'histoire des Sadr sur trois générations : les tribulations des ancêtres, une décennie de révolution politique, les chemins de traverse de l'adolescence, l'ivresse du rock, le sourire voyou d'une bassiste blonde.
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Désorientale suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteure
- Narrated by: Lila Tamazit
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 22-03-17
- Language: French
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Life Among the Savages
- By: Shirley Jackson
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery 'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children' As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley...
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Acerbic wit at its best!
- By Amazon Customer on 14-04-21
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Life Among the Savages
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Series: Jacksons, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-10-20
- Language: English
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Blood of the Wolf
- The Forest Lord, Book 4
- By: Steven A. McKay
- Narrated by: NIck Ellsworth
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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After winning his freedom in Rise of the Wolf, Robin - with his faithful lieutenant John Little at his side - now spends his days travelling around northern England dispensing King Edward II's justice. When a new band of outlaws appears in Barnsdale, Sheriff Henry de Faucumberg sends Robin and John to deal with them.
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McKay's usual brilliance!
- By TheFluffyViking on 17-05-17
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Blood of the Wolf
- The Forest Lord, Book 4
- Narrated by: NIck Ellsworth
- Series: The Forest Lord, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 23-01-17
- Language: English
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Thwarted Queen
- The Entire Saga About the Yorks, Lancasters, and Nevilles, Whose Family Feud Inspired "Game of Thrones"
- By: Cynthia Sally Haggard
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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When Robert Baratheon died suddenly after a boar hunt, all hell broke loose. When Edward IV, King of England, died suddenly after a fishing trip in April 1483, another phase of the Wars of the Roses ensued, the Yorks (Starks) battling the Lancasters (Lannisters). Thwarted Queen is told mainly in the voice of Lady Cecylee Neville (1415-1495), the thwarted queen, but other voices are important to this tale, not least those of the Londoners, who forged their own political destiny by engaging in public debate with the powerful aristocrats of the time
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Note perfect narration!
- By jan on 28-10-21
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Thwarted Queen
- The Entire Saga About the Yorks, Lancasters, and Nevilles, Whose Family Feud Inspired "Game of Thrones"
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 03-03-21
- Language: English
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The Queen's Cousin
- A Novel of Queen Anne of Scotland
- By: Raymond Wemmlinger
- Narrated by: Lianne Walker
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Nineteen-year-old Anne of Denmark, Queen of Scotland, is thrilled and triumphant at the birth of a healthy baby boy, destined to reign as King of Scotland and, possibly, England. But Anne's enjoyment of maternal glory quickly fades as her husband King James, fearing his son will be politically manipulated against him as he was against his mother, the deceased Mary Queen of Scots, removes the child permanently from her care. Outraged, Anne tries to regain control of her son, initiating a bitter marital struggle which sours what had been a loving and harmonious marriage.
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The Queen's Cousin
- A Novel of Queen Anne of Scotland
- Narrated by: Lianne Walker
- Series: Raymond Wemmlinger Tudor Royals, Book 3
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 02-12-25
- Language: English
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