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Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time & Other Mysteries
- A BBC Radio Crime Collection
- By: Josephine Tey
- Narrated by: Julia Foster, Joan Sims, Paul Young, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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Dramatisations and readings of five of Josephine Tey's classic mystery novels. Scottish novelist and playwright Josephine Tey was one of the greatest Golden Age crime writers and the author of eight mysteries, including six featuring Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant. The most famous of these, The Daughter of Time, was acclaimed the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association. A full-cast dramatisation of this iconic story is included here, along with adaptations of four of her other much-loved mystery novels.
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An astounding author
- By Prof. Anthony Pryce-Curling on 23-04-21
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Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time & Other Mysteries
- A BBC Radio Crime Collection
- Narrated by: Julia Foster, Joan Sims, Paul Young, Edward Petherbridge, Tilly Gaunt, Giles Fagan, Peter Gilmore, full cast
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 25-03-21
- Language: English
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Nobody's Darling
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
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Lizzie Miller worries for her family – money is short in their little house, but her beautiful daughter Ruby vows to give them all a better life. Working as a maid for Mr Banks, Ruby befriends his shy and gentle daughter, Cicely. The two girls hatch a mischievous plan to introduce Ruby to society at a party for the ‘gentry’ of Blackburn, where Ruby meets Luke Arnold, the dissolute heir to his father’s fortunes.
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Outstanding
- By Jane Bryder on 13-04-24
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Nobody's Darling
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 01-04-24
- Language: English
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Josephine
- By: Carolly Erickson
- Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age, an era of revolution and social upheaval, of the guillotine and of frenzied hedonism. With telling psychological depth and compelling literary grace, Carolly Erickson brings the complex, charming, ever resilient Josephine to life in this memorable portrait, one that carries the reader from the sensual richness of her childhood in the tropics to her final lonely days at Malmaison.
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Wonderful.
- By h on 08-12-12
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Josephine
- Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 14-12-05
- Language: English
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The Daughter of Time
- By: Josephine Tey
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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'Truth is the Daughter of Time' is an old proverb. And The Daughter of Time is Josephine Tey's search for the truth about the murder of the Princes in the Tower. Was the hunchback, Richard III, the monster that Shakespeare and the history books have made him out to be?
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Tey's thought provoking Daughter of Time
- By jen on 24-12-12
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The Daughter of Time
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Series: Inspector Alan Grant, Book 5
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-04-12
- Language: English
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Rainbow Days
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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'You're everything to me. I'd have to lose my life before I'd lose you.' This is the vow Silas made to Cathleen on the day he asks her to marry him. Throughout their childhood their love has grown stronger and now, in 1900, they start to plan a life together. But a jealous woman is determined to ruin their happiness and uses Silas's father – a good and honest man – to do so, forcing him to make an impossible sacrifice. As a dutiful son, Silas has no choice but to obey his father, and Cathleen must pay the bitter price.
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Wonderful 📕
- By Kindle Customer on 06-05-24
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Rainbow Days
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 01-05-24
- Language: English
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Somewhere, Someday
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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Kelly knew that, although Barney would always love her, his restless soul would never allow him to stay, but she could never have envisaged how his leaving would alter her life. Alone once more, Kelly finds herself remembering the past – in particular, what happened in the autumn of 1877 and how it destroyed her family. Filled with regrets and wishes that life may have been different, Kelly begins to see that she must confront her past – and only then will she finally be free.
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I couldnt pick one part .
- By Valerie on 28-08-24
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Somewhere, Someday
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-08-24
- Language: English
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The Gilded Cage
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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Powerful, hard-hearted Leonard Mears ruthlessly presides over his wife and children, exiling them from the outside world and brutally punishing any disobedience. But he is also a man with a dark secret – an illegitimate daughter that he forced his sister to bring up. The girl is now a young woman who, unbeknownst to him, is determined to find the father that abandoned her.
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Beautiful story 📕
- By Kindle Customer on 21-09-24
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The Gilded Cage
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-09-24
- Language: English
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Miss You Forever
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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One winter's night, in the coal-hole in her yard, Rosie finds that a woman sheltering there has been severely beaten by thugs. At a glance, Kathleen looks like an unkempt, aged vagabond who tramps the roads carrying all her worldly possessions in a grubby tapestry bag. Her only friend is the mangy old dog who accompanies her; the sum of her life is in the diaries she so zealously guards. Yet close up, Rosie can see that Kathleen has a gracious beauty – the 'look' of a respectable lady of means.
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Truly outstanding story
- By Jane Bryder on 18-04-24
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Miss You Forever
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-02-24
- Language: English
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Jinnie
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Ten years ago, Louise Hunter's life was torn apart by tragedy. Her husband, Ben, killed himself; her brother-in-law, Jacob, was murdered; and her sister, Susan, abandoned her newborn daughter, revealing the baby is Ben's child. Louise remains haunted by guilt over the one night she spent with Ben's friend Eric and refuses to return Eric's love. But after adopting Jinnie, she finds new happiness – until Susan decides she wants Jinnie back.
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fantastic storyline
- By m o'connor on 10-08-24
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Jinnie
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 01-06-24
- Language: English
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Shot with Crimson
- A Josephine Tey Mystery, Book 11
- By: Nicola Upson
- Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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September 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca. Then a shocking act of violence reawakens the shadows of the past, with consequences on both sides of the Atlantic, and Josephine and DCI Archie Penrose find themselves on a trail leading back to the house that inspired a young Daphne du Maurier—a trail that echoes Rebecca's timeless themes of obsession, jealousy, and murder.
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Truly thrilling Tey
- By Mme Elisabeth Jarman on 04-04-24
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Shot with Crimson
- A Josephine Tey Mystery, Book 11
- Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
- Series: Josephine Tey, Book 11
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 07-11-23
- Language: English
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Don't Cry Alone
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
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Beth Ward and Tyler Blacklock share a love they know will last forever. But Beth’s mother, Esther, is jealous of the girl’s happiness and seizes an opportunity to be rid of her daughter. Banished in disgrace from the family home, Beth takes the northbound train and alights at Blackburn, friendless and alone. On this day, Fortune smiles, for Beth is taken in by warm-hearted Maisie Armstrong, a widow with two children. Money is scarce, but love abounds in the cosy house on Larkhill, and Beth is content there to await the birth of her child.
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storyline was amazing
- By m o'connor on 16-08-24
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Don't Cry Alone
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 01-02-23
- Language: English
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Daddy’s Girl
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Victoria Riley
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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When heart-broken Sarah Quinn is left to care for her father and siblings when her mother dies, it’s hard to watch their loving dad, Fred, drift into drink and despair. With money tight, Sarah is determined to keep the family together. But they receive a shock when Fred Quinn announces he is to marry Mavis Swindel, the landlady of a boarding house on the edge of the moors. Mavis seems to offer the answer to the family’s problems, and soon they are all moving into her shabby lodgings. It quickly becomes clear that their stepmother has plans for her new family.
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Daddy’s Girl
- Narrated by: Victoria Riley
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 29-02-24
- Language: English
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An Expert In Murder: Josephine Tey Series, Book 1
- By: Nicola Upson
- Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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It's March 1934, and Josephine Tey is travelling from Scotland to London to celebrate what should be the triumphant final week of her celebrated play, Richard of Bordeaux. However, a seemingly senseless murder puts her reputation, and even her life, under threat.
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Superb!
- By Karen on 17-01-09
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An Expert In Murder: Josephine Tey Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
- Series: Josephine Tey, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 19-08-08
- Language: English
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The Devil You Know
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
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Sonny Fareham's lover – and also her boss – is the charismatic Tony Bridgeman, a successful and ruthless man who usually gets what he wants. But for Sonny, the affair that has promised a future of hope and happiness must end in desperate fear. Late one evening, Sonny overhears a private conversation between Tony Bridgeman and his wife. Only then does she realise she is in great danger.
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The Devil You Know
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-07-24
- Language: English
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Living a Lie
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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In 1975 Lucinda Marsh throws herself in front of a speeding train leaving her 12-year-old daughter Kitty alone, confused and abandoned – save for a selfish aunt, a violent father and her childhood sweetheart Harry Jenkins. When Kitty is sent to an orphanage after the death of her father, she meets Georgie, a lively cockney girl who, through the following difficult years, becomes her loyal friend. Convinced that her feelings for Harry will ruin the brilliant future that lies ahead of him, Kitty turns her back on his love.
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Amazing story of love and friendship.
- By ian mcnamara on 03-10-23
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Living a Lie
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-10-23
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Left
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Louise and Ben Hunter's loving marriage is marred only by their unfulfilled longing for a child. Living and working with Ben's father, Ronnie, they are quietly contented. But when Ronnie dies, their whole world changes. Ben's lazy brother, Jacob, returns, convinced he stands to inherit Ronnie's small fortune. And he means to have his brother's wife; though just as she did years before, Louise warns him off. Jacob, however, is not so easily dismissed. When he realises Ben will inherit everything, Jacob is beside himself with rage, and commits a terrible deed.
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loved the twists and turns
- By m o'connor on 06-08-24
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The Woman Who Left
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-03-24
- Language: English
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Jessica's Girl
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 17 hrs and 34 mins
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Despite a deathbed warning from her beloved mother, Phoebe Mulligan has no choice but to throw herself on the mercy of her uncle, Edward. Wrenched from all she holds dear, the tragic young girl is delivered to Blackburn town, where she must live in a household terrorised by the cold, forbidding presence of her mother's brother. Phoebe cannot understand why she is treated so harshly by Edward Dickens. She is not to know the guilty secret that lies in his past, a secret that casts a sinister shadow over his feelings for his lovely niece.
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Beautiful must read
- By Kindle Customer on 07-05-23
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Jessica's Girl
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 17 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-05-23
- Language: English
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Outcast
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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On a fateful night in 1860, Thadius Grady realises, too late, that he has made a grave mistake. In blind faith he has put himself and his daughter Emma at the mercy of his sister and her conniving husband, Caleb Crowther - for he has entrusted to them his entire fortune and the daughter he adores. With his dying breath he pleads to see his daughter one last time - but Caleb's heart is made of stone.
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Raw, gritty and sad so if you like fairytales I wouldn’t bother but for others it is a good historical story
- By Lara on 15-02-21
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Outcast
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Series: Emma Grady Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 12-08-20
- Language: English
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Alley Urchin
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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1870 - Emma Grady has spent seven years of servitude as a convict in Australia. Now, having earned her ticket of leave, she is still bound by chains of honour and friendship. Yet she lives for the day when she will return to England, to face those who cheated and betrayed her. And to Marlow Tanner, the man she loves and whose tragic child she bore and then lost.
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Alley Urchin
- By V_Nerdbooks on 01-07-21
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Alley Urchin
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Series: Emma Grady Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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Take This Woman
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins
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Blackburn, 1947. In the tiny front parlour 14-year-old Laura Blake watches her beloved father die. But not before he tells her she will make something of her life. Laura never forgets his words. Yet her path to success proves to be a rocky one. Forced to trundle a cart around the back streets, selling other folk's cast-offs to support her family, Laura learns enough to start work in her uncle's furniture shop. But then fate deals another cruel blow when Laura is brutally raped. Bearing the child of her attacker in secret, she vows to make the world pay for its injustice towards her.
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Take This Woman
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-11-24
- Language: English
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