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Dark Shadows Over Coronation Close
- Coronation Close, Book 3
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Bristol 1938. A shadowy presence overshadows Coronation Close, watching and waiting. Jenny Crawford is the first to notice the stranger and wonders why his attention is fixed on Thelma Dawson’s house. When challenged he makes a hasty retreat....
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Relaxing.
- By CATHERINE T. on 26-04-24
By: Lizzie Lane
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The Man in the Bunker
- Tom Wilde, Book 6
- By: Rory Clements
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Germany, late summer 1945. The war is over, but the country is in ruins....
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Gripping
- By lancelot on 24-02-22
By: Rory Clements
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Hothouse Flower
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Georgian mansion Wharton Park was a place of childhood solace for Julia Forrester, spending summers in the Norfolk countryside with her beloved grandfather....
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loved it
- By melanie on 29-04-23
By: Lucinda Riley
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A Wife's Courage
- By: Kitty Neale
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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London, 1944. With bombs raining over London, keeping the Battersea Tavern open is no easy feat for owner Winnie Berry - but the community need the warmth and familiarity of the pub more than ever....
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Brilliant
- By Amazon Customer on 09-11-23
By: Kitty Neale
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A Wartime Wife
- Mary Anne Randall, Book 1
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Bristol 1939. At forty years of age, Mary Anne Randall still turns heads. With an abusive husband spending most of his wages on beer, she has resigned herself to be the sole breadwinner to protect her family and keep the wolves from the door....
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Gripping
- By Jackie Jackson on 09-09-22
By: Lizzie Lane
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Behind the Guns
- Army Girls, Book 3
- By: Fenella J Miller
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Having done her duty as an ATS girl, Lance Corporal Ruth Cox is moving on to new challenges and has signed up to work as a gunner girl, helping to keep the skies clear of enemy planes and safe for our brave boys in blue....
By: Fenella J Miller
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Dark Shadows Over Coronation Close
- Coronation Close, Book 3
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Bristol 1938. A shadowy presence overshadows Coronation Close, watching and waiting. Jenny Crawford is the first to notice the stranger and wonders why his attention is fixed on Thelma Dawson’s house. When challenged he makes a hasty retreat....
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Relaxing.
- By CATHERINE T. on 26-04-24
By: Lizzie Lane
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The Man in the Bunker
- Tom Wilde, Book 6
- By: Rory Clements
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Germany, late summer 1945. The war is over, but the country is in ruins....
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Gripping
- By lancelot on 24-02-22
By: Rory Clements
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Hothouse Flower
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
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Georgian mansion Wharton Park was a place of childhood solace for Julia Forrester, spending summers in the Norfolk countryside with her beloved grandfather....
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loved it
- By melanie on 29-04-23
By: Lucinda Riley
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A Wife's Courage
- By: Kitty Neale
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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London, 1944. With bombs raining over London, keeping the Battersea Tavern open is no easy feat for owner Winnie Berry - but the community need the warmth and familiarity of the pub more than ever....
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Brilliant
- By Amazon Customer on 09-11-23
By: Kitty Neale
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A Wartime Wife
- Mary Anne Randall, Book 1
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Bristol 1939. At forty years of age, Mary Anne Randall still turns heads. With an abusive husband spending most of his wages on beer, she has resigned herself to be the sole breadwinner to protect her family and keep the wolves from the door....
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Gripping
- By Jackie Jackson on 09-09-22
By: Lizzie Lane
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Behind the Guns
- Army Girls, Book 3
- By: Fenella J Miller
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Having done her duty as an ATS girl, Lance Corporal Ruth Cox is moving on to new challenges and has signed up to work as a gunner girl, helping to keep the skies clear of enemy planes and safe for our brave boys in blue....
By: Fenella J Miller
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Death on the Lusitania
- Patrick Gallagher, Book 1
- By: R. L. Graham
- Narrated by: Carl Prekopp
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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New York, 1915. RMS Lusitania, one of the world’s most luxurious ocean liners, departs for war-torn Europe. Among those on board is Patrick Gallagher, a civil servant in Her Majesty’s government tasked with escorting a British diplomat back to England....
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Absolutely superb!
- By Anonymous User on 23-02-24
By: R. L. Graham
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The Midwife of Berlin
- By: Anna Stuart
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Berlin, 1945: Ester Pasternak walked out of the gates of Auschwitz barely alive. She survived against devastating odds, but her heartbreaking journey is only just beginning. In the camp, Ester gave birth to a tiny fair-haired infant....
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Beautiful and heartbreaking 💔
- By j e petford on 09-04-24
By: Anna Stuart
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Wartime Sweethearts
- The Sweet Sisters, Book 1
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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The Sweet family have run the local bakery for as long as anyone can remember.
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Fantastic!!!!!!!
- By Sakazoke on 08-05-24
By: Lizzie Lane
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The Ealing Comedy Collection
- BBC Radio Full-Cast Remakes of The Ladykillers, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Passport to Pimlico & Whisky Galore!
- By: Wiliam Rose, Robert Hamer, John Dighton, and others
- Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge, Donald Sinden, Margot Boyd, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Original Recording
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Between 1947 and 1957, Ealing Studios produced a series of immensely popular, darkly funny film comedies that made the West London borough famous throughout the world. Now four of these timeless films were recreated for BBC Radio 4, and are now collected together for the first time....
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great performances
- By Duncan Macpherson on 28-03-24
By: Wiliam Rose, and others
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Return to the Dover Café
- The Dover Café, Book 4
- By: Ginny Bell
- Narrated by: Bea Holland
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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All is not well at Castle's Café. Since the fatal shooting, customers have been staying away, and now Nellie finds herself in debt to the sinister Terence Carter. But when a deadly attack strikes close to home, these troubles pale into insignificance....
By: Ginny Bell
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War Clouds Over Blackberry Farm
- Blackberry Farm, Book 1
- By: Rosie Clarke
- Narrated by: Claire Morgan
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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As the clouds of war begin to gather in Europe, the Talbot family of rural Blackberry Farm will be torn apart, just as so many families all over the world will be. Life will never be the same again....
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Nice story but didn't enjoy narration
- By Ron on 22-06-22
By: Rosie Clarke
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Secrets for the Three Sisters
- The Three Sisters, Book 2
- By: Annie Groves
- Narrated by: Alex Tregear
- Length: 10 hrs
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It’s autumn 1940 and the Blitz has cast its shadow over London. Everyone is doing their bit to help, including the three Harrison sisters of the East End’s Victory Walk. Even in wartime, the sisters find time for a wedding, but the bride is keeping a secret, which threatens to come to light....
By: Annie Groves
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Fire and Fury for the Tobacco Girls
- The Tobacco Girls, Book 3
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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As the clouds of war grow bleaker both at home and abroad, the Tobacco Girls are determined to do their bit for king and country....
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Narrated badly
- By Amazon Customer on 09-01-23
By: Lizzie Lane
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
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Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....
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Incredible! Can’t wait to see the movie!
- By Lanny 32 on 26-11-17
By: Mark Sullivan
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The Light Behind the Window
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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The present: Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home in the south of France....
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A beautiful Story
- By Debz100 on 08-12-20
By: Lucinda Riley
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A Fond Farewell for the Tobacco Girls
- The Tobacco Girls, Book 6
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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May 1945 – VE Day. After battling against the odds, the three friends are uncertain of their futures. With a new dawn, there are high hopes and boundless dreams....
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Absolutely loved these books
- By Jacqui on 17-08-23
By: Lizzie Lane
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The Stars Are Our Witness
- A totally gripping, epic and emotional World War 2 novel
- By: Siobhan Curham
- Narrated by: Harrie Dobby
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Working in the camp’s munitions factory, Adela Rubenstein discovers the underground network fighting against the devastating cruelty all around them. Imprisoned for teaching Jewish orphans in secret for the resistance, she doesn’t hesitate to join the rebellion.
By: Siobhan Curham
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The Memory Box: A beautiful, timeless, absolutely heartbreaking love story and World War Two historical fiction
- By: Kathryn Hughes
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Jenny Tanner opens the box she has cherished for decades. Contained within are her most precious mementoes, amongst them a pebble, a carving and a newspaper cutting she can hardly bear to read....
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WONDERFUL READ.
- By Ally_G on 07-01-22
By: Kathryn Hughes
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Agent in Berlin
- The Wolf Pack Spies 1
- By: Alex Gerlis
- Narrated by: Duncan Galloway
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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To live among wolves, first you must become one... An unmissable new spy thriller from best-selling master of the genre, Alex Gerlis...
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Please get this recorded with someone else!
- By Roy on 08-07-22
By: Alex Gerlis
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Christmas with the Cornish Girls
- The Cornish Girls, Book 2
- By: Betty Walker
- Narrated by: Annette Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1941 and Christmas is approaching in St. Ives. Shy Lily wishes she could hide from the war....
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Disappointed!
- By Winnibell on 20-12-23
By: Betty Walker
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Churchill's People
- By: Mary Jane Staples
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1941, the United Kingdom was in desperate straits, standing alone with its troops against the colossal war machine of Nazi Germany....
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What can I say, I am addicted
- By Julie on 11-10-22
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Victory Bells For The Harpers Girls
- Welcome to Harpers Emporium, Book 6
- By: Rosie Clarke
- Narrated by: Juliette Burton
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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As the war clouds retreat and the victory bells ring, tears and joy mingle with those of sadness as the world counts the true toll of war and celebrates peace....
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Heartwarming
- By shirley pickin on 19-01-23
By: Rosie Clarke
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Prince of Spies
- The Richard Prince Thrillers, Book 1
- By: Alex Gerlis
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Find the truth; risk everything. A gripping WWII spy novel full of intrigue and peril from a modern master....
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Sabotage by narrator ..
- By Joanna on 11-04-21
By: Alex Gerlis
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The Three Sisters of Victory Walk
- The Three Sisters, Book 1
- By: Annie Groves
- Narrated by: Alex Tregear
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The three sisters of Victory Walk in East London will face heartache and tears on the home front. As rationing, blackouts and bombs start to bite, life will change forever for the three sisters....
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Such a lovely story
- By Julie on 10-08-23
By: Annie Groves
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A Christmas Baby at Goodwill House
- By: Fenella J Miller
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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July 1941. As the war grinds on, Lady Joanna Harcourt knows that her time at Goodwill House is drawing to close. A new chapter awaits, one that she never expected to happen to her – she is going to be a wife and mother again....
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Great story
- By Kindle Customer on 18-03-24
By: Fenella J Miller
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The Ballroom Blitz
- By: Anton Du Beke
- Narrated by: Anton Du Beke, Thomas Judd
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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September 1940. As the skies split apart and bombs rain down on London, it's all the staff at the famed Buckingham Hotel can do to keep their guests in the luxury they're accustomed to, and evoke the magic of the Grand ballroom for them each night....
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the bombs dropped but that's not all!!!
- By Anonymous User on 07-11-22
By: Anton Du Beke
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The Girls in the Attic
- By: Marius Gabriel
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The bestselling author of The Designer presents a sweeping story of blind faith, family allegiance and how love makes one man question everything he thought he knew....
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Very Real
- By Helen on 10-06-21
By: Marius Gabriel
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ARMOR, The Complete Series
- Books 1-5
- By: Craig DiLouie
- Narrated by: Garrett Michael Brown
- Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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ARMOR: The Complete Series chronicles the journey of a tank crew through WWII, from North Africa to Berlin. Action-packed, authentic, and filled with flawed, tough men of the Greatest Generation, ARMOR drops you straight into the horror, brotherhood, and triumph of armored warfare....
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Good tank tale across the western front!
- By S.Pathak on 05-05-24
By: Craig DiLouie
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The Dressmaker of Paris
- 'A story of loss and escape, redemption and forgiveness. Fans of Lucinda Riley will adore it' (Sunday Express)
- By: Georgia Kaufmann
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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A beautifully written, sweeping historical women's fiction novel that spans both time and the globe as we follow one woman's journey from simple country girl to global fashion icon....
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Mrs Wells
- By Diana Wells on 30-05-23
By: Georgia Kaufmann
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My Sister's Betrayal
- Book 2
- By: Roberta Kagan
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Desperate to be reunited with her husband, Daniel, Elica walks into the dreaded den of the ruthless Gestapo. She's ready to sacrifice anything for their love. Anna and her family find themselves at the mercy of Anna's heart-throb, Ulf. Ulf's obsession with Anna puts him in a quandary—between his loyalty to the Fuhrer and his burning desire for the forbidden fruit.
By: Roberta Kagan
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A Mother’s Sorrow
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Sheffield, 1892. Patrick Halliday rules his family with a rod of iron. He’s hard on both his wife and his elder daughter, Flora, but he spoils his youngest, Mary Ellen, because she reminds him of his beloved mother. When Mary Ellen, aged seventeen, finds that she is pregnant, Patrick throws her out of the family home and Flora goes with her. After wandering the Derbyshire countryside for miles, they find shelter on a farm, working for their keep. When Flora must return to her job as a buffer girl in Sheffield’s cutlery trade, she is reunited with her friend, Evelyn Bonsor.
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A Safe Haven on Beamer Street
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- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
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Trapped in an abusive marriage to Lord Caraway with her beloved daughter Melissa, 24-year-old Lady Elodie Caraway knows she has to escape before her deepest and darkest secrets are revealed giving her husband every reason to seek his revenge. But time is of the essence, if she is to save herself and Melissa. With the help of lifelong friend Aiden Newman, they swiftly leave Oakland Hall for a new life in Liverpool's docklands. On arrival, Elodie and Melissa are welcomed as lodgers by Molly Haywood’s family, Aidens aunt – no questions are asked.
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Excellent story
- By Debbie on 10-05-24
By: Sheila Riley
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The Paris Daughter
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- By: Kristin Harmel
- Narrated by: Kristin Harmel, Madeleine Maby
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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Paris, 1939. Elise and Juliette are certain nothing can come between them. So, when war breaks out and Elise is forced to flee, she entrusts Juliette with her daughter, playmate to Juliette's own little girl. More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend's bookstore reduced to rubble - and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to Mathilde in those last terrible moments?
By: Kristin Harmel
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An Ocean of Courage and Fear
- By: Jerry Borrowman
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Onboard the heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City, Lieutenant Commander Justin Collier was 230 miles west of Pearl Harbor accompanying the USS Enterprise on a secret mission when Japan attacked the United States. Upon his return to Honolulu, the gravity of the war begins to change him, as does every subsequent mission, including a rare beach landing with an Army infantry division. He fears his wounds of war, both physical and mental, will be incurable.
By: Jerry Borrowman
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Behind the Guns
- Army Girls, Book 3
- By: Fenella J Miller
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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Having done her duty as an ATS girl, Lance Corporal Ruth Cox is moving on to new challenges and has signed up to work as a gunner girl, helping to keep the skies clear of enemy planes and safe for our brave boys in blue. But on the way to her new barracks, Ruth meets handsome Sargeant Sam Johnson. Ruth isn’t looking for romance, and she knows she has a dangerous job ahead, but there is a connection between her and Sam that she can’t deny.
By: Fenella J Miller
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My Sister's Betrayal
- Book 2
- By: Roberta Kagan
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Desperate to be reunited with her husband, Daniel, Elica walks into the dreaded den of the ruthless Gestapo. She's ready to sacrifice anything for their love. Anna and her family find themselves at the mercy of Anna's heart-throb, Ulf. Ulf's obsession with Anna puts him in a quandary—between his loyalty to the Fuhrer and his burning desire for the forbidden fruit.
By: Roberta Kagan
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A Mother’s Sorrow
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Sheffield, 1892. Patrick Halliday rules his family with a rod of iron. He’s hard on both his wife and his elder daughter, Flora, but he spoils his youngest, Mary Ellen, because she reminds him of his beloved mother. When Mary Ellen, aged seventeen, finds that she is pregnant, Patrick throws her out of the family home and Flora goes with her. After wandering the Derbyshire countryside for miles, they find shelter on a farm, working for their keep. When Flora must return to her job as a buffer girl in Sheffield’s cutlery trade, she is reunited with her friend, Evelyn Bonsor.
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A Safe Haven on Beamer Street
- Beamer Street, Book 2
- By: Sheila Riley
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Trapped in an abusive marriage to Lord Caraway with her beloved daughter Melissa, 24-year-old Lady Elodie Caraway knows she has to escape before her deepest and darkest secrets are revealed giving her husband every reason to seek his revenge. But time is of the essence, if she is to save herself and Melissa. With the help of lifelong friend Aiden Newman, they swiftly leave Oakland Hall for a new life in Liverpool's docklands. On arrival, Elodie and Melissa are welcomed as lodgers by Molly Haywood’s family, Aidens aunt – no questions are asked.
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Excellent story
- By Debbie on 10-05-24
By: Sheila Riley
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The Paris Daughter
- Two Mothers. Two Daughters. Two Families Torn Apart
- By: Kristin Harmel
- Narrated by: Kristin Harmel, Madeleine Maby
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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Paris, 1939. Elise and Juliette are certain nothing can come between them. So, when war breaks out and Elise is forced to flee, she entrusts Juliette with her daughter, playmate to Juliette's own little girl. More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend's bookstore reduced to rubble - and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to Mathilde in those last terrible moments?
By: Kristin Harmel
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An Ocean of Courage and Fear
- By: Jerry Borrowman
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Onboard the heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City, Lieutenant Commander Justin Collier was 230 miles west of Pearl Harbor accompanying the USS Enterprise on a secret mission when Japan attacked the United States. Upon his return to Honolulu, the gravity of the war begins to change him, as does every subsequent mission, including a rare beach landing with an Army infantry division. He fears his wounds of war, both physical and mental, will be incurable.
By: Jerry Borrowman
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Behind the Guns
- Army Girls, Book 3
- By: Fenella J Miller
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Having done her duty as an ATS girl, Lance Corporal Ruth Cox is moving on to new challenges and has signed up to work as a gunner girl, helping to keep the skies clear of enemy planes and safe for our brave boys in blue. But on the way to her new barracks, Ruth meets handsome Sargeant Sam Johnson. Ruth isn’t looking for romance, and she knows she has a dangerous job ahead, but there is a connection between her and Sam that she can’t deny.
By: Fenella J Miller
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Side Launch
- By: Brock Martin
- Narrated by: John Eli Brewer
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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1939, Canada unprepared but defiant, declares war on Germany and mass produces a mid-size warship, the Corvette. Thus starts the creation and journey of Canada's first Corvette, the HMCS Collingwood. Neither designed nor equipped for the North Atlantic, Collingwood is tasked to protect convoys and take on the predatory Sea Wolves lurking below the waves. Heart breaking wartime romance as Ian and Kate struggle with love in difficult times. Our hero Ian, takes command of the Collingwood. He is ready to fight with any weapon he is given having witnessed Nazi atrocities and now driven by hatred.
By: Brock Martin
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The Sower of Black Field
- Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
- By: Katherine Koch
- Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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As he struggles to rekindle the faith of a guilt-ridden Wehrmacht veteran, a morose widow, and her grieving teenage son, Fr. Viktor Koch, C.P. is haunted by self-doubt. What is driving him to stay in the Third Reich? Is he following a higher plan, or the mystic compulsion of his German heritage? Exposed to American ideals, his parishioners grow restless under Nazi rule. Relying upon his ingenuity to keep them out of prison, Fr. Viktor solicits aid from an unlikely intercessor-the Nazi charity worker who confiscated his monastery for state purposes.
By: Katherine Koch
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The Last Bird of Paradise
- By: Clifford Garstang
- Narrated by: Amelie Peterson
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Two women, nearly a century apart, seek to rebuild their lives when they reluctantly leave their homelands. Arriving in Singapore, they find romance in a tropical paradise, but also find they haven't left behind the dangers that caused them to flee.
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The Last Boat Home
- By: Rachel Sweasey
- Narrated by: Gloria Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the ‘little ships’ to bring the retreating soldiers home from Dunkirk, she prays her husband will be among them. But Alfie is declared missing, presumed dead, and Daisy must learn to live as a widow. Then a chance encounter with a French soldier throws Daisy’s life even further off course, with heartbreaking consequences that will span generations.
By: Rachel Sweasey
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The Constant Soldier
- By: William Ryan
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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1944. Paul Brandt, a German soldier, returns wounded and ashamed from the chaos of the Eastern front to find his village home existing in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut - a luxurious retreat for those who manage the concentration camps, run with the help of a small group of female prisoners. When Brandt glimpses one of these prisoners, he realises that he must find a way to access the hut. For inside is the woman to whom his fate has been tied since their arrest five years before, and now he must do all he can to protect her.
By: William Ryan
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To Sing of War
- By: Catherine McKinnon
- Narrated by: Annabelle Tudor
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
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DECEMBER 1944 In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, a soldier in the Allies' hard-fought jungle campaign. At Los Alamos in the United States, idealistic physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that will stop all war, while Kitty Oppenheimer wrestles with restrictions on her freedom. And on the sacred island of Miyajima in Japan, Hiroko Narushima is doing her best to protect her family.
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Salonika Burning
- By: Gail Jones
- Narrated by: Nicole Nabout
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Macedonia, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war. Amid the destruction are those who have come to the frontlines to heal – surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of them – Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley – are at the centre of Gail Jones’s extraordinary new novel, which takes its inspiration from the wartime experiences of Australians Miles Franklin and Olive King, and British painters Grace Pailthorpe and Stanley Spencer.
By: Gail Jones
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Time Walker
- In the President's Service, Book 19
- By: Ace Collins
- Narrated by: Ace Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In late 1943, Helen Meeker’s team reunites to uncover the reason why a man refuses the Medal of Honor he deserves. Unraveling this mystery takes Meeker and her team on a life and death chase. Their original, seemingly simple case quickly explodes into a complex adventure where they must find a man called Horse, uncover why Hitler hired a mobster to contribute to the Nazi cause, face a legendary hit man who wants to add them to his list of victims, and perhaps uncover a treasure once sought by the Spanish Conquistadors.
By: Ace Collins
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The Sower of Black Field
- Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
- By: Katherine Koch
- Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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Throughout the Third Reich, millions of Germans pledged allegiance to Adolf Hitler. In the Bavarian village of Schwarzenfeld, they followed an American citizen. As he struggles to rekindle the faith of a guilt-ridden Wehrmacht veteran, a morose widow, and her grieving teenage son, Fr. Viktor Koch, C.P. is haunted by self-doubt. What is driving him to stay in the Third Reich? Is he following a higher plan, or the mystic compulsion of his German heritage? Exposed to American ideals, his parishioners grow restless under Nazi rule.
By: Katherine Koch
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A Child Far from Home
- By: Lizzie Page
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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With the country on the brink of war, single mother Jean embraces her ten-year-old daughter, Valerie, before she puts her on a train to Somerset alongside hundreds of other evacuees. Jean’s heart breaks as she vows they’ll be together again soon, knowing it’s a promise she might not be able to keep. Wrenched away from her mother and everything familiar, Valerie arrives in Somerset and nervously waits in the village hall to find a host family.
By: Lizzie Page
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The Two Loves of Sophie Strom
- By: Sam Taylor
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Jot Davies
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
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In one unforgettable night, Max Spiegelman's life splits in two. As war looms and Nazism continues to rise, Max is forced into choices that place him and his alter ego on opposing sides of a divided world. Tethered by their dreams, the boys watch helplessly, haunted by visions of what could have been. But in each parallel universe, they share a magnetic bond with an enchanting, grey-eyed girl.
By: Sam Taylor
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The Librarians of Rue de Picardie
- By: Janet Skeslien Charles
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Jackie Sanders, Marin Ireland, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France, a group of women determined to rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen - children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears.