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Unto Us a Son Is Given
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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As a favour to his wealthy father-in-law, the Count Falier, Commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to investigate the seemingly innocent wish of the Count’s best friend, the elderly and childless Gonzalo, to adopt a younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws, this man would become the sole heir to Gonzalo’s substantial fortune, something which Gonzalo’s friends, including the Count, find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why they're so intent on meddling in the old man's business.
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worst of the series still quite good
- By Carrie Osmo on 31-03-2020
- Unto Us a Son Is Given
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Sibley
Perhaps her best
Reviewed: 24-03-2020
Neatly plotted, evenly paced, satisfyingly thoughtful; the only thing I didn’t like was a chapter identifying Brunetti only as “the man”. Why do it? But that’s a matter of personal taste.
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A Deadly Thaw
- Inspector Francis Sadler, Book 2
- By: Sarah Ward
- Narrated by: Julia Anthony
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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It's 2004. In Bampton, Derbyshire, Lena Fisher is arrested for suffocating her husband, Andrew. Spring 2016: A year after Lena's release from prison, Andrew is found murdered in a disused mortuary. Who was the man Lena killed 12 years ago, and why did she lie about his identity? When Lena disappears, her sister, Kat, follows a trail of clues delivered by a teenage boy.
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Audible, be ashamed!
- By Rosemary on 04-10-2017
- A Deadly Thaw
- Inspector Francis Sadler, Book 2
- By: Sarah Ward
- Narrated by: Julia Anthony
Audible, be ashamed!
Reviewed: 04-10-2017
This book may be flawed, but it deserved a better reading than that! I have heard worse, but only by amateurs. Many mispronunciations, even more mistakes of intonation indicating a failure to understand the meaning of the text, and a horrible mess of mangled accents. Maybe the narrator was seeing the text for the first time? How unprofessional. Other listeners would do much better to read the book. I have to give a star rating for performance. Make it minus 1.
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The Dress Shop of Dreams
- By: Menna van Praag
- Narrated by: Jane Carr
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Since her parents' mysterious deaths many years ago, scientist Cora Sparks has spent her days in the safety of her university lab or at her grandmother Etta's dress shop. Tucked away on a winding Cambridge street, Etta's charming tiny store appears quite ordinary to passersby, but the colourfully vibrant racks of beaded silks, delicate laces and jewel-toned velvets hold bewitching secrets - with just a few stitches from Etta's needle, these gorgeous gowns have the power to free a woman's deepest desires....
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The love story that has it all
- By Jennifer on 28-10-2017
- The Dress Shop of Dreams
- By: Menna van Praag
- Narrated by: Jane Carr
Ghastly waste
Reviewed: 10-12-2016
Did the author ever meet a dedicated scientist? Did she ever try to count leaves on a plant? [Hint: what proportion of the leaves can you see?]
Take a totally unbelievable and unlikeable protagonist, put them in highly unlikely situations, and give them stilted dialogue.
Then add a narrator who makes an exhibition of her elocution...
No, I didn't finish the book. I only have so much time to waste. Wasting the money on it was bad enough!
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The Silk Roads
- A New History of the World
- By: Peter Frankopan
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 24 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westward on its axis, it now turns to the east.... For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the West - in the New World of the Americas. Today it is the East that calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from Eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia, deep into China and India, is taking center stage.
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Misleading title, very Eurocentric history of M.E.
- By Tim on 11-09-2018
- The Silk Roads
- A New History of the World
- By: Peter Frankopan
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
Epic scope, seamless story
Reviewed: 03-07-2016
Frankopan unravels the complex threads of the history of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, citing original documents going back centuries. He links and sequences the activities of the Romans, Vikings, Conquistadors, English and Dutch East India companies, the British and Russian Empires and more recent Russian and U.S. intrigues are linked in an epic story of trade, exploitation and national self-interest.
The highlight for me was his quotation of diplomatic documents relating to conflicts for which I recall the sanitised media reports. How different they are!
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Too Many Murders
- A Carmine Delmonico Novel
- By: Colleen McCullough
- Narrated by: Bill Ten Eyck
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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The new crime novel that will have you up all night from Australia's best-loved storyteller. It's a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, Connecticut; the year is 1967, and the world teeters on the brink of nuclear holocaust as the Cold War goes relentlessly on.
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An excellent puzzle
- By Rosemary on 19-04-2016
- Too Many Murders
- A Carmine Delmonico Novel
- By: Colleen McCullough
- Narrated by: Bill Ten Eyck
An excellent puzzle
Reviewed: 19-04-2016
A remarkably complex and well crafted murder cum espionage mystery. One might wish for some characters to be better developed, but the principals are believable and well executed.
Narration is good overall, but why does he pronounce cache as cachet? That broke my focus on the story at a critical point.