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The Year Without Summer
- By: Guinevere Glasfurd
- Narrated by: Genevieve Swallow
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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1815, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia Mount Tambora explodes in a cataclysmic eruption, killing thousands. Sent to investigate, ship surgeon Henry Hogg can barely believe his eyes. Once a paradise, the island is now solid ash, the surrounding sea turned to stone. But worse is yet to come: as the ash cloud rises and covers the sun, the seasons will fail. 1816. In Switzerland, Mary Shelley finds dark inspiration. Confined inside by the unseasonable weather, thousands of famine refugees stream past her door.
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The Year Without Summer
- Narrated by: Genevieve Swallow
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2020
- Language: English
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The Words in My Hand
- Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2016
- By: Guinevere Glasfurd
- Narrated by: Abigail Hollick
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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The Words in my Hand is the reimagined true story of Helena, a 17th-century Dutch maid desperate to educate herself and use her mind in an era when women were kept firmly in their place. Helena works in the Amsterdam lodging house of an English bookseller who rents out a room to the mysterious 'Monsieur', who turns out to be René Descartes. Always trying to keep one step ahead of the authorities desperate to suppress his free thinking, Descartes and Helena form an unlikely bond which turns from teaching into an affair.
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Amsterdam
- By Jenny on 26-11-2020
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The Words in My Hand
- Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2016
- Narrated by: Abigail Hollick
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 14-01-2016
- Language: English
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Worte in meiner Hand
- By: Guinevere Glasfurd
- Narrated by: Julia Nachtmann
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Amsterdam, 1640er Jahre. Helena Jans van der Strom arbeitet als Magd bei einem Buchhändler. Ein großes Glück für sie, denn sie kann lesen und schreiben. Der neue Hausgast ihres Herrn fasziniert sie: Er arbeitet ununterbrochen und zieht viele Besucher an. Sein Name ist René Descartes und sie ist zu neugierig, um Distanz zu wahren. Helenas Charme und ihr Wissensdurst beeindrucken ihn. Und so geschieht, was nicht sein darf: Sie verlieben sich - sie, Calvinistin und nur eine einfache Magd, er, Katholik und Europas aufstrebender Philosoph. Doch beide lassen sich vom vorherrschenden Standesdünkel des Goldenen Zeitalters in Holland nicht aufhalten.
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Worte in meiner Hand
- Narrated by: Julia Nachtmann
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-08-2015
- Language: German
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