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A Ship of the Line
- By: C. S. Forester
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall683
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Performance600
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Story601
Her Majesty's ship Sutherland is a humdrum ship of the line. But in command is none other than the heroic Captain Hornblower and, with his crew from the Lydia, he looks set to take on commando raids, hurricanes at sea, and Napoleons's gun batteries.
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Cliffhanger Alert
- By Donn Edwards on 21-07-14
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A Ship of the Line
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Series: Horatio Hornblower (chronological order), Book 7
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 04-10-10
- Language: English
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Prodigal Summer
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall444
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Performance394
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Story392
National Bestseller “A blend of breathtaking artistry, encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. . . and ardent commitment to the supremacy of nature.” — San Francisco Chronicle In this beautiful novel, Barbara Kingsolver, acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and the Pulitzer-Prize...
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truly beautiful
- By Geoffb on 02-12-07
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Prodigal Summer
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 06-03-06
- Language: English
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Nicholas Nickleby
- The Dickens Collection: Original Audio Show
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Original Recording
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Overall382
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Performance351
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Story351
When 19-year old Nicholas Nickleby is left destitute after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby offers little help and proves to be both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, leaving Nicholas to make his own way in the world.
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An epic melodrama and a wonder of character acting
- By Adam on 31-10-18
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Nicholas Nickleby
- The Dickens Collection: Original Audio Show
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Great Expectations
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance124
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Story126
One of the most revered works in English literature, Great Expectations traces the coming of age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity. From the chilling opening confrontation with an escaped convict to the grand but eerily disheveled estate of bitter old Miss Havisham, all is not what it seems in Dickens’ dark tale of false illusions and thwarted desire.
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A Great Expectations achieved.
- By Wras on 20-02-15
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Great Expectations
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 24-10-11
- Language: English
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Dombey and Son
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 39 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall262
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Performance218
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Story218
Dombey and Son is vintage Dickens and explores the classic themes of betrayal, cruelty and deceit. Dombey's dysfunctional relationships are painted against a backdrop of social unrest in industrialized London, which is populated by a host of fascinating and memorable secondary characters. The complete and unabridged novel is brought spectacularly to life by veteran reader David Timson.
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Excellent Range of Voices
- By Peter on 17-08-11
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Dombey and Son
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 39 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 06-06-11
- Language: English
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Less Than Angels
- By: Barbara Pym
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance72
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Story71
Less Than Angels follows the loves, works and hopes of a group of young anthropologists. Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the reclusive anthropologist Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks. Added to this love triangle are the activities of Deirdre's fellow students and their attempts to win the competition for a research grant.
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Disappointing.
- By Norfolk Bookworm on 25-10-19
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Less Than Angels
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 04-03-13
- Language: English
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Within a Budding Grove
- By: Marcel Proust
- Narrated by: John Rowe
- Length: 23 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance71
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Story71
In the second volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator emerges as an actor in the drama of his own life. Swann has now dwindled into a husband for his former mistress, Odette, and their daughter, Gilberte, becomes the adolescent narrator's playmate and tantalising love object. We move from Paris to the seaside town of Balbec, from ritualised social performances to midsummer spontaneity and from Gilberte to her successor Albertine.
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"Like floating down a river..."
- By saly on 09-08-16
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Within a Budding Grove
- Narrated by: John Rowe
- Series: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 2
- Length: 23 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-07-09
- Language: English
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Ulysses
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Jim Norton
- Length: 27 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall967
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Performance773
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Story762
Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century. It tells the story of one day in Dublin, June 16th 1904, largely through the eyes of Stephen Dedalus (Joyce's alter ego from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Leopold Bloom, an advertising salesman. Both begin a normal day, and both set off on a journey around the streets of Dublin, which eventually brings them into contact with one another.
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Amazing
- By R. D. A. Wells on 02-04-12
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Ulysses
- Narrated by: Jim Norton
- Length: 27 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 23-07-08
- Language: English
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The Binding
- By: Bridget Collins
- Narrated by: Carl Prekopp
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,293
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Performance3,965
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Story3,957
Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice - but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. He will learn to handcraft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there’s something you want to forget, he can help. If there’s something you need to erase, he can assist. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible.
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One of my best listens of 2019
- By Emma C on 15-02-19
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The Binding
- Narrated by: Carl Prekopp
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-01-19
- Language: English
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No Time Like The Past
- By: Jodi Taylor
- Narrated by: Zara Ramm
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,195
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Performance1,995
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Story1,987
The fifth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. A Fete Worse Than Death... The St Mary's Institute...
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If the Joneses had a child ...
- By Garry on 21-04-15
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No Time Like The Past
- Narrated by: Zara Ramm
- Series: The Chronicles of St Mary's, Book 5
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 21-04-15
- Language: English
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Live and Let Die
- A James Bond Adventure
- By: Ian Fleming
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance24
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Story24
James Bond is not an easily intimidated man, but it’s hard not to feel unnerved in the presence of Mr. Big. A ruthless Harlem gangster who uses superstition and fear to control his vast criminal empire, he’s also one of SMERSH’s top American operatives. Mr. Big has been smuggling British pirate treasure to New York from a remote Jamaican island and funneling the proceeds to Moscow.
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Story was quite good
- By C. Harrison on 10-11-25
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Live and Let Die
- A James Bond Adventure
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Series: James Bond: The Collection, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 29-01-25
- Language: English
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The Inimitable Jeeves
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall877
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Performance758
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Story761
When Bingo Little falls in love with a tea-and-bun-shop waitress at a Camberell subscription dance and Bertie falls into the mulligatawny, there's work for a wet-nurse. Who better than Jeeves? With his usual savoir-faire and panache Jeeves unties the tangles and irons out the creases in his unflappable and inimitable way. "I always say, and I always shall say," proclaims Bingo Little, "that you've only got to stand on Jeeves and fate can't touch you."
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Pure escapist joy
- By Peter on 09-04-13
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The Inimitable Jeeves
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Series: Jeeves & Wooster, Book 2, Drones Club
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 29-08-05
- Language: English
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The Science Of Discworld Revised Edition
- By: Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall595
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Performance472
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Story470
In the 'fantasy' universe of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, everything runs on magic and common sense. The world is flat and million-to-one chances happen nine times out of ten. Our world seems different - it runs on rules, often rather strange ones. Science is our way of finding...
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Science and The Short Story
- By Clare on 16-06-12
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The Science Of Discworld Revised Edition
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Series: Science of Discworld, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 03-05-12
- Language: English
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The Left Hand of Darkness
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin, Charlie Jane Anders - afterword
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance18
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Story18
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary’s mission to Winter, an unknown alien world whose inhabitants can choose—and change—their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so, he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.
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An absolute must-read classic of science fiction.
- By Amadeus on 01-10-24
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The Left Hand of Darkness
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Series: The Hainish Cycle, Book 4
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 18-06-24
- Language: English
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Les Misérables
- By: Victor Hugo
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 67 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall470
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Performance434
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Story432
Les Misérables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets, we encounter "the wolf-like tread of crime", and assassination for a few sous is all in a day's work. We weep with the unlucky and heart-broken Fantine, and we exult with the heroic revolutionaries of the barricades; but above all we thrill to the steadfast courage and nobility of soul of ex-convict Jean Valjean, always in danger from the relentless pursuit of the diabolical Inspector Javert.
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A surprisingly profound book that has changed me
- By Heshan panditaratne on 11-09-18
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Les Misérables
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 67 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 29-04-15
- Language: English
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Foundation’s Edge
- Foundation, Book 6
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall136
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Performance124
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Story124
After a long war which saw the First Foundation emerge victorious, the Second Foundation is now believed to be extinct, and all records of planet Earth’s existence have been erased. No one suspects that the Second Foundation could still exist. None, except Council member Golan Trevize, who finds himself ordered to leave Terminus, accompanied by historian Janov Pelorat, in order to find it. Yet this quest will lead an unsuspecting Golan further than he could have possibly imagined.
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Do not listen to the author's note
- By John Carter on 01-11-25
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Foundation’s Edge
- Foundation, Book 6
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Series: Foundation, Book 6
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 16-11-23
- Language: English
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The Silver Mark
- The Crow Investigations, Book 2
- By: Sarah Painter
- Narrated by: Kate Rawson
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall449
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Performance408
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Story407
London is Lydia Crow’s city so when a man is found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge, she takes it personally. Even when it seems as if the Silver Family might be involved, Lydia refuses to back down. The Silver Family, who run the finest law firm in London, have a gift for persuasion. In the 'Bad Old Days' it was said they could make a man jump off a roof by convincing him he could fly. But that's all in the past...isn’t it?
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Disappointing
- By Bevy on 11-05-21
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The Silver Mark
- The Crow Investigations, Book 2
- Narrated by: Kate Rawson
- Series: Crow Investigations, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 28-11-19
- Language: English
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A Month in the Country
- By: J L Carr, Penelope Fitzgerald - introduction
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall194
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Performance186
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Story185
Brought to you by Penguin. 'One of the best books I've ever read' Richard Osman A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of...
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one of my favourites
- By Tsarina on 24-08-25
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A Month in the Country
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 01-08-24
- Language: English
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Surfeit Of Lampreys
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall187
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Performance170
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Story166
Lord Pastern fired his revolver. The figure in the spotlight fell and the coup-de-theatre had become murder. Could Inspector Alleyn believe Pastern had let hatred of his future son-in-law go too far? Or would the tangle of jealousies and blackmail among the guests reveal another murderer?...
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Marsh joy
- By Jean the Bean on 11-12-16
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Surfeit Of Lampreys
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 10
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 15-10-15
- Language: English
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Vainqueur the Dragon
- By: Maxime Durand
- Narrated by: Jack Voraces
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall199
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Performance160
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Story159
Vainqueur Knightsbane is your average dragon: A giant, fire-breathing lizard who loves to take naps on his golden hoard, kidnap princesses for fun, and make the life of adventurers miserable. Vainqueur's only pleasure in life is to watch his treasure get bigger, one coin at a time. So when a would-be thief turned unwilling minion tells him about "classes", "levels", and "quests", Vainqueur wonders if maybe, just maybe, he should consider a career change. After all, why bother hunting monsters for free when you can get paid for it?
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This is a gem
- By Morris on 04-05-20
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Vainqueur the Dragon
- Narrated by: Jack Voraces
- Series: Vainqueur the Dragon, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 29-04-20
- Language: English
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