Showing results by publisher "W. F. Howes Ltd" in Historical Fiction
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The Daughters of Ironbridge
- The Ironbridge Saga, Book 1
- By: Mollie Walton
- Narrated by: Lu Corfield
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Anny Woodvine's family has worked at the ironworks for as long as she can remember. The brightest child in her road and the first in her family to learn to read, Anny has big dreams. The moment she is asked to run messages to the big house, she's ready to grab the opportunity with both hands. Margaret King, only daughter of the King family, is surrounded by privilege and wealth. But behind closed doors all is not what it seems. When Anny arrives, Margaret finds her first ally and friend. Together they plan to change their lives.
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The Daughters of Ironbridge
- The Ironbridge Saga, Book 1
- Narrated by: Lu Corfield
- Series: The Ironbridge Saga, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2019
- Language: English
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Rumours of War
- Matthew Hervey, Book 6
- By: Allan Mallinson
- Narrated by: Errick Graham
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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1826: Napoleon Bonaparte is dead, the Congress of Vienna's work is done, and there is peace in Europe. However, in Portugal there is the scent of civil war in the air following the death of King John VI. Newly returned from India, Matthew Hervey joins a party of officers sent to make an assessment and lend support to the Portuguese queen. His place on the expedition is secured with the help and influence of his new friend, Lady Katherine Greville. But the Peninsula is a place redolent with memories....
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Ran out of puff
- By Ross Monks on 27-11-2023
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Rumours of War
- Matthew Hervey, Book 6
- Narrated by: Errick Graham
- Series: Matthew Hervey Series, Book 6
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-11-2017
- Language: English
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The Admiral's Daughter
- Thomas Kydd, Book 8
- By: Julian Stockwin
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance24
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Story24
Tensions are escalating between England and Napoleon's France. While the Royal Navy launches reconnaissance, rescue missions, and spies on the continent, French privateer ships are lurking in English waters poised to strike at British trade. Meanwhile, smugglers and storms threaten to overcome HMS Teazer.
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Heavy Going
- By Scott Berens on 21-04-2019
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The Admiral's Daughter
- Thomas Kydd, Book 8
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Series: Thomas Kydd, Book 8
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 19-03-2012
- Language: English
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Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams
- By: Mary Gibson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance20
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Story20
Handsome Frank Rossi took Matty Gilbie away from her working class roots in East London, promising her fame and fortune. As his wife, she would be half of a power couple. But the Wall Street Crash puts paid to all that, and as Frank becomes more violent, Matty flees in the dead of night. Once home in Bermondsey, she goes into hiding, but Frank is on the move, determined to find her and get her back.
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Loved it
- By Amazon Customer on 26-08-2021
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Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 16-03-2017
- Language: English
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The Crystal Crypt
- Poppy Denby Investigates, Book 6
- By: Fiona Veitch Smith
- Narrated by: Helen Keeley
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Reporter sleuth Poppy Denby is asked to investigate the mysterious death of an up-and-coming female scientist in an Oxford laboratory known as the Crystal Crypt. The official verdict is that Dr June Leighton died in a tragic accident, but Dr Leighton's lab assistant believes it was murder. However, when Poppy discovers that the colleague has spent time in a mental institution and has an unresolved murder in her own past, Poppy wonders if she is being misled. Then, another female academic is attacked, and Poppy herself becomes a target.
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The Crystal Crypt
- Poppy Denby Investigates, Book 6
- Narrated by: Helen Keeley
- Series: Poppy Denby Investigates, Book 6
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-11-2021
- Language: English
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To Kill a King
- Master of War, Book 8
- By: David Gilman
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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Story17
Bordeaux, 1367. Having angered the bloodthirsty Don Pedro, King of Castile, Sir Thomas Blackstone is thoroughly sick of his mission for the Prince of Wales, but must remain true to his oath. But this is the Hundred Years' War, and tensions are rising once more. With the Prince of Wales deeply unpopular in his Aquitainian lands, Blackstone, King Edward's Master of War, must return to French soil to help stem the tide of support for the King of France. Meanwhile, Henry, Blackstone's son, faces an incognito ride across France with his own motley band of outlaws and mercenaries.
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Thomas
- By Platykat on 21-10-2024
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To Kill a King
- Master of War, Book 8
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-03-2024
- Language: English
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A Maiden's Voyage
- By: Rosie Goodwin
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Story13
1912, London. Eighteen-year-old Flora Butler is going up in the world. She has the prized position of lady's maid to young Constance Ogilvie and is able to provide for her beloved parents and four younger siblings. She has even fallen in love, and though she does not feel quite ready to marry, her future seems clear. But Flora's life is turned upside down when her mistress' father dies. Connie is forced to move to New York to live with her aunt until she comes of age and begs Flora to go with her. Flora has never left the country before and now faces a difficult decision.
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A Maiden's Voyage
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Series: Days of the Week, Book 5
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2019
- Language: English
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No Ordinary Killing: An Ingo Finch Mystery Book 1
- By: Jeff Dawson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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1899, South Africa: As the Boer War rages, Captain Ingo Finch of the Royal Army Medical Corps pieces together casualties at the front. Later, recovering in Cape Town, he is woken by local police. A British officer has been murdered, and an RAMC signature is required for the post-mortem. Shocked by the identity of the victim, the bizarre nature of the crime and what appears a too-convenient resolution, Finch turns detective. He is soon thrust into a perilous maze of espionage and murder.
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Interesting background
- By Anonymous on 30-10-2024
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No Ordinary Killing: An Ingo Finch Mystery Book 1
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Series: An Ingo Finch Mystery, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2021
- Language: English
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The Secrets of Ironbridge
- The Ironbridge Saga, Book 2
- By: Mollie Walton
- Narrated by: Lu Corfield
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
1850s Shropshire. Returning to her mother's birthplace at the age of 18, Beatrice Ashford encounters a complex family she barely knows. Her great-grandmother Queenie adores her, but the privileged social position of Beatrice's family as masters of the local brickworks begins to make her uncomfortable. And then she meets Owen Malone: handsome, different, refreshing - and from a class beneath her own.
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The Secrets of Ironbridge
- The Ironbridge Saga, Book 2
- Narrated by: Lu Corfield
- Series: The Ironbridge Saga, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 21-05-2020
- Language: English
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Betrayal
- Thomas Kydd, Book 13
- By: Julian Stockwin
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance20
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Story20
Cape Colony is proving a tiresome assignment for Captain Kydd's daring commander-in-chief. Rumours of popular unrest in the Spanish colonies and of a treasure hoard spur him to assemble a makeshift invasion fleet and launch a bold attack on the capital of the Viceroyalty of the River Plate, Buenos Aires. Navigating the treacherous bars and mud flats of the river, the British invasion force lands and wins a battle against improbable odds, taking the capital and the silver. But nothing is as simple as it seems here....
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Got part two before part one
- By Steven Button on 20-10-2018
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Betrayal
- Thomas Kydd, Book 13
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Series: Thomas Kydd, Book 13
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 15-10-2012
- Language: English
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The Jazz Files
- Poppy Denby Investigates, Book 1
- By: Fiona Veitch Smith
- Narrated by: Helen Keeley
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance21
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Story21
1920. Poppy Denby, an aspiring journalist, arrives in London to look after her ailing Aunt. She encourages Poppy to apply for a job at The Daily Globe, but on her first day, a senior reporter is killed and Poppy is tasked with finishing his story. It involves the mysterious death of a suffragette seven years earlier - an event some powerful people would prefer forgotten....
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Gripping yarn
- By Gabrielle on 20-02-2026
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The Jazz Files
- Poppy Denby Investigates, Book 1
- Narrated by: Helen Keeley
- Series: Poppy Denby Investigates, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 25-07-2019
- Language: English
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Dilly's Sacrifice
- By: Rosie Goodwin
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance25
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Story25
Dilly is devastated: with her husband unable to work and four children already at home, they cannot afford to feed their newborn baby. Heartbroken, she delivers her baby girl to the Farthing family, who have just lost their own daughter to measles. This act of desperation will change the lives of both families irrevocably. But when the chance for true love finally comes, will Dilly choose family over her own happiness?
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Some lives have the cards stacked against them.
- By Hanma on 26-05-2025
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Dilly's Sacrifice
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Series: Dilly's Story, Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs
- Release date: 24-09-2015
- Language: English
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The Words of Kings and Prophets
- Gael Song, Book 2
- By: Shauna Lawless
- Narrated by: Aoife MacMahon, Aidan Kelly, Clara Harte
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Ireland, 1000 AD. Gormflaith is unhappily married to Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, and although a queen she struggles with her limited position. As an immortal Fomorian with the secret gift of magic, Gormflaith has a burning desire: to find and destroy the hidden fortress of her sworn enemies, the Descendants, who seek to kill her kind at all costs. She begins to use her magical powers, and discovers she is more skilled than she ever realised... but can she control what she will become?
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Just Brilliant
- By Michael Moloney on 26-06-2024
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The Words of Kings and Prophets
- Gael Song, Book 2
- Narrated by: Aoife MacMahon, Aidan Kelly, Clara Harte
- Series: Gael Song, Book 2
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 21-09-2023
- Language: English
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Shadow of the Hawk
- Master of War, Book 7
- By: David Gilman
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance54
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Story53
Winter, 1364. Sir Thomas Blackstone, Edward III's Master of War, has travelled to France to secure Brittany for England. In the throes of battle, he rescues a Castilian boy, Lazaro, who just witnessed the murder of the young queen. It is suspected that the king - along with Velasquita Alcon de Lugo, the beautiful witch who serves him - assassinated his queen. But Lazaro knows that is not the case. With the king in hiding and the French army advancing Castile is on its knees. So Blackstone is ordered to Castile, to defend England's ally from the French.
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always a masterpiece
- By Grahame Davis on 21-11-2025
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Shadow of the Hawk
- Master of War, Book 7
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2021
- Language: English
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Quarterdeck
- Thomas Kydd, Book 5
- By: Julian Stockwin
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance32
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Story32
Thomas Kydd was promoted to acting lieutenant at the bloody Battle of Camperdown in October 1797. Now he must sit an exam to confirm his rank or face an inglorious return before the mast.
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Great characters and fast moving plots
- By Erin on 31-03-2025
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Quarterdeck
- Thomas Kydd, Book 5
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Series: Thomas Kydd, Book 5
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2011
- Language: English
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Tenacious
- Thomas Kydd, Book 6
- By: Julian Stockwin
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance24
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Story24
Kydd is in Halifax when Tenacious is summoned to join Horatio Nelson on an urgent reconnaissance mission. However, Bonaparte evades the British ships, sailing towards Egypt, which holds the key to the route to India.
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Addictive series
- By Erin on 02-04-2025
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Tenacious
- Thomas Kydd, Book 6
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Series: Thomas Kydd, Book 6
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 20-04-2011
- Language: English
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Conquest
- Thomas Kydd, Book 12
- By: Julian Stockwin
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance18
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Story18
Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar removed the spectre of invasion and England is now free to seek conquests and colonies in the furthest reaches of the world. Captain Kydd joins an expedition to take Dutch-held Cape Town, a strategic imperative to secure the rich trade-route to India. But even if the British can defeat the enemy and take possession of the capital, there is still more fighting to be done.
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Conquest
- Thomas Kydd, Book 12
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Series: Thomas Kydd, Book 12
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 10-06-2011
- Language: English
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The Game
- By: Laurie R. King
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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In the early days of 1924, Mary Russell and her husband, the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, are given an urgent task by his brother, Mycroft: find a British spy gone missing along India's northwest frontier, where men are dying and trouble is brewing. The spy's name? It is one Holmes knows from his sojourn in India long ago, and one Russell knows from a book. It is Kimball O'Hara, known to the world by the name Rudyard Kipling called him - Kim....
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Clearly describing history and legend.
- By Peter L. Buckley on 06-08-2025
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The Game
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Series: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Book 7
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 27-12-2017
- Language: English
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Caribbee
- Thomas Kydd, Book 14
- By: Julian Stockwin
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance14
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Thomas Kydd, a hero of Trafalgar, holds the glory of being Post-Captain of the 32-gun frigate, L'Aurore. A Caribbean posting seems a welcome respite for the war hero, but when more and more merchantmen begin vanishing from the sea, fear starts to spread. Kydd must embark on a dangerous game of espionage in order to destroy this new and terrible danger to the Empire.
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Great
- By Amazon Customer on 13-10-2017
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Caribbee
- Thomas Kydd, Book 14
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Series: Thomas Kydd, Book 14
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 05-06-2014
- Language: English
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The Bermondsey Bookshop
- By: Mary Gibson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall170
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Performance159
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Story158
Set in 1920s London, this is the inspiring story of Kate Goss' struggle against poverty, hunger and cruel family secrets. Her mother died in a fall, her father has vanished without trace, and now her aunt and cousins treat her viciously. In a freezing, vermin-infested garret, factory girl Kate has only her own brave spirit and dreams of finding her father to keep her going. She has barely enough money to feed herself, or to pay the rent. The factory where she works begins to lay off people and it isn't long before she has fallen into the hands of the violent local money-lender.
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Hated the ending
- By Miss M. on 01-04-2021
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The Bermondsey Bookshop
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2020
- Language: English
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