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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
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A highly atmospheric Agatha Christie-style murder mystery set on a luxury cruise-liner during WW1....
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Absolutely superb!
- By Anonymous User on 23-02-24
By: R. L. Graham
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A Bespoke Murder
- Home Front Detective, Book 1
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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May 1915. As zeppelin bombs fall on London and with the sinking of the Lusitania, anti-German hysteria reaches fever pitch and attacks on German immigrants surge....
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A good story
- By taylor on 09-03-23
By: Edward Marston
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The Fortune Tellers
- By: Maggie Mason
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Martha is seventeen and alone in the world. Of Irish decent, her flashing green eyes see into your soul....
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Keeps you wanting more
- By Thea Phillips on 20-04-24
By: Maggie Mason
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A Sister's Destiny
- By: Rosie Clarke
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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As war looms in Europe, 18-year-old Jane Shaw runs the household as an unpaid servant on a meagre budget. When tragedy strikes and she loses her beloved younger brother in suspicious circumstances, Jane takes a position in service looking after Ned, a troubled young boy....
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😍
- By Elishia on 06-07-23
By: Rosie Clarke
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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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From Sunday Times bestseller Margaret Dickinson comes a captivating story of family, hardship and love set in early 1900s Derbyshire....
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William - an Englishman
- By: Cicely Hamilton
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Cicely Hamilton drew on her experiences working in France during WW1 to tell the story of William Tully and his new bride Griselda, who are wrenched away from their all-consuming interests – socialism and votes for women – and plunged into the almost dream-like horror of war.
By: Cicely Hamilton
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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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A highly atmospheric Agatha Christie-style murder mystery set on a luxury cruise-liner during WW1....
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Absolutely superb!
- By Anonymous User on 23-02-24
By: R. L. Graham
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A Bespoke Murder
- Home Front Detective, Book 1
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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May 1915. As zeppelin bombs fall on London and with the sinking of the Lusitania, anti-German hysteria reaches fever pitch and attacks on German immigrants surge....
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A good story
- By taylor on 09-03-23
By: Edward Marston
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The Fortune Tellers
- By: Maggie Mason
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Martha is seventeen and alone in the world. Of Irish decent, her flashing green eyes see into your soul....
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Keeps you wanting more
- By Thea Phillips on 20-04-24
By: Maggie Mason
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A Sister's Destiny
- By: Rosie Clarke
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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As war looms in Europe, 18-year-old Jane Shaw runs the household as an unpaid servant on a meagre budget. When tragedy strikes and she loses her beloved younger brother in suspicious circumstances, Jane takes a position in service looking after Ned, a troubled young boy....
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😍
- By Elishia on 06-07-23
By: Rosie Clarke
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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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From Sunday Times bestseller Margaret Dickinson comes a captivating story of family, hardship and love set in early 1900s Derbyshire....
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William - an Englishman
- By: Cicely Hamilton
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Cicely Hamilton drew on her experiences working in France during WW1 to tell the story of William Tully and his new bride Griselda, who are wrenched away from their all-consuming interests – socialism and votes for women – and plunged into the almost dream-like horror of war.
By: Cicely Hamilton
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The Fortune Tellers' Secret
- By: Maggie Mason
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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Blackpool, 1922. Martha and Trisha may have escaped poverty, but their fortunes have yet to turn....
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The fortune tellers secret.
- By Sakazoke on 20-11-23
By: Maggie Mason
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Wartime Blues for the Harpers Girls
- Welcome to Harpers Emporium, Book 5
- By: Rosie Clarke
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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London 1917. As the Americans enter the war, there is renewed energy in the war effort. With husbands and sons fighting for freedom, the women of Harpers are left to tackle the day-to-day affairs at home and work....
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Great continuation of the Harper’s girls story
- By JB on 17-09-21
By: Rosie Clarke
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Murder at Lord's Station
- London Underground Station Mysteries, Book 3
- By: Jim Eldridge
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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March, 1941. World War Two is well underway and the Blitz is taking its toll on Central London with bombs raining down almost every night. Inspector Coburg and his trusted Sergeant Lampson are just recovering from the devastating bomb attack on the Café de Paris when they get a call.
By: Jim Eldridge
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Tommies
- The Complete BBC Radio Collection
- By: Michael Chaplin, Nick Warburton, Avin Shah, and others
- Narrated by: Lee Ross, Pippa Nixon, Indira Varma
- Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
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Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eyewitness accounts, each of these 42 episodes of Tommies traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago....
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Great, but there is a chapter missing
- By Roger Townsend on 15-11-18
By: Michael Chaplin, and others
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A Sister's Bond
- Bittersweet Legacy, Book 1
- By: Kay Brellend
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Wood Green, North London, November 1913. The storm clouds of war gather overhead while one brave girl fights to save her family....
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This book is good
- By Anne Callender on 13-02-19
By: Kay Brellend
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The Toffee Factory Girls
- By: Glenda Young
- Narrated by: Hannah Genesius
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street, Durham. The toffee factory girls begin as strangers before forging a close bond of friendship and trust. And, as the war rages on, they help each other cope through the difficult times ahead....
By: Glenda Young
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The River Between Us
- By: Liz Fenwick
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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Following the breakdown of her marriage, Theo has bought a tumbledown cottage on the banks of the river Tamar which divides Cornwall and Devon. The peace and tranquillity of Boatman’s Cottage, nestled by the water, is just what she needs to heal....
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Achingly beautiful story and lesson of strength and enduring love
- By Anne Dewis on 17-06-21
By: Liz Fenwick
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The Shut-Away Sisters
- A Gripping and Utterly Heartbreaking Historical Novel
- By: Suzanne Goldring
- Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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London, 1915. As German bombs rain down on the East End of London and hungry children queue for rations in the blistering cold, 15-year-old Florrie is forced to grow up fast. Florrie turns to her older sister Edith for comfort. But the war has changed Edith....
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So compelling.
- By Amazon Customer on 24-03-22
By: Suzanne Goldring
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The Key in the Lock
- A haunting historical mystery steeped in explosive secrets and lost love
- By: Beth Underdown
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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I still dream, every night, of Polneath on fire. Smoke unravelling from an upper window, and the terrace bathed in a hectic orange light.... Now I see that the decision I made at Polneath was the only decision of my life. Everything marred in that one dark minute....
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A good yarn
- By Soozald on 17-12-22
By: Beth Underdown
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The Victory Garden
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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As the Great War continues to take its toll, 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage....
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Brilliant
- By Austen on 22-02-19
By: Rhys Bowen
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Wartime on Sanctuary Lane
- Sanctuary Lane, Book 1
- By: Kirsty Dougal
- Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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As the Great War rages across Europe, twenty-one-year-old Ruby Archer decides to ‘do her bit’ at an East End munitions factory. The work is relentless and deafening, but the camaraderie of the other girls carries her through....
By: Kirsty Dougal
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Harpers Heroes
- Welcome to Harpers Emporium, Book 4
- By: Rosie Clarke
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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The Harpers Girls come face to face with the harsh reality of the cruelty of war....
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Lovely story, but …..
- By lana garlick on 11-08-21
By: Rosie Clarke
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The Pilot's Girl
- The Pilot's Girl, Book 1
- By: Fenella J. Miller
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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As war rages, Barbara Sinclair is desperate to escape her unhappy home life. And with the threat of German bombs ever present, Barbara reluctantly agrees to marry John, her childhood friend, who is leaving to join the RAF....
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Wartime with the Tram Girls
- By: Lynn Johnson
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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July 1914. Britain is in turmoil as WW1 begins to change the world. While the young men disappear off to foreign battlefields, the women left at home throw themselves into jobs meant for the boys....
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Exactly the same!
- By lou on 15-01-24
By: Lynn Johnson
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When the World Goes Quiet
- A Novel
- By: Gian Sardar
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In the final days of World War I, an aspiring artist’s courageous journey is just beginning in a powerful novel about love, danger, and survival by the author of Take What You Can Carry....
By: Gian Sardar
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Home Front: The Complete BBC Radio Collection, Volume 2
- By: Richard Monks, Lucy Catherine, Katie Hims, and others
- Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthary, Maggie Steed, Anton Lesser, and others
- Length: 39 hrs and 56 mins
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Series 6-10 of the epic BBC Radio 4 drama charting life on the home front during the First World War - plus special episode Home Front: A Lightening....
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Un-missable World War 1 Drama
- By Stirzaker Photography on 19-01-19
By: Richard Monks, and others
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Spring Offensive
- Home Front Detective, Book 11
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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March, 1918. British newspapers carry the dreadful news that the German Spring Offensive has begun, with thousands of British lives lost. Detective Sargeant Joe Keedy is awaiting release from hospital in London and is anxious to resume the fight against crime on the Home Front.
By: Edward Marston
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The Paris Sister
- The Three Fry Sisters, Book 2
- By: Adrienne Chinn
- Narrated by: Ruth Sillers
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Three sisters separated by distance but bound by love....
By: Adrienne Chinn
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The Woman from Beaumont Farm
- By: AnneMarie Brear
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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West Yorkshire, 1914. Newly married to Noah Jackson, Beth is happily content working on her family's market stall while Noah fulfils his dreams of being a teacher. When war erupts, Beth's peaceful life is shattered by events beyond her control....
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Great storyline !
- By Mrs Irene Bladon on 04-04-24
By: AnneMarie Brear
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Welcome to Weaver Street
- Weaver Street, Book 1
- By: Chrissie Walsh
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Kitty and Tom Conlon arrive in Liverpool in July 1916 to claim the house Tom’s great-uncle has bequeathed him in his will. The move to England couldn’t have come at a better time. Dublin is in turmoil following the Easter Uprising and Kitty’s brother is now in prison....
By: Chrissie Walsh
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The Poacher's Daughter
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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It is 1910 in the Lincolnshire Wolds. Fourteen-year-old Rosie Waterhouse lives with her father, Sam, well-known as the local poacher, in a cottage on the Thornsby Estate...
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Home Front: The Complete BBC Radio Collection, Volume 1
- By: Lucy Catherine, Katie Hims, Sebastian Baczkiewicz, and others
- Narrated by: full cast, Toby Jones, Ami Metcalf, and others
- Length: 38 hrs and 23 mins
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Series 1-5 of the groundbreaking BBC Radio 4 drama charting life on the home front during World War One....
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Great Listen
- By Amazon Customer on 07-03-23
By: Lucy Catherine, and others
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The Soulmate Homecoming
- The Soulmate Call, Book 8
- By: Tiffany Ann
- Narrated by: Kathy Handrock
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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All of his life Benjamin hadn't noticed Sarah as anything other than his best friend's sister. The last thing he expected was to notice her as more than a friend, but he did. No sooner does he realize his love for her, America enters the war.
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homecoming
- By Siobhan D on 21-04-24
By: Tiffany Ann
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Deeds of Darkness
- Home Front Detective, Book 4
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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In June 1916, a young woman named Charlotte Reid is found murdered in a cinema....
By: Edward Marston
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The Soulmate Homecoming
- The Soulmate Call, Book 8
- By: Tiffany Ann
- Narrated by: Kathy Handrock
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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All of his life Benjamin hadn't noticed Sarah as anything other than his best friend's sister. The last thing he expected was to notice her as more than a friend, but he did. No sooner does he realize his love for her, America enters the war. War changes a man. He'd heard that dozens of times over his life but with every near miss, every new scar, every bullet he feels himself chipping away. Even if he survives to go home to his soulmate, what man would he be? How much of him would she recognize?
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homecoming
- By Siobhan D on 21-04-24
By: Tiffany Ann
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The Paris Peacemakers
- By: Flora Johnston
- Narrated by: Karen Bartke
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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As the fragile negotiations of the international Peace Conference get underway, typist Stella Rutherford throws herself into her work and the mixture of glamour and devastation the City of Light reveals. Anything to escape the grief coming in waves for her beloved brother Jack. Her sister Corran is about to put her academic career to use among the troops in France, a chance to see what the experience was like for countless men, including her fiancé Rob.
By: Flora Johnston
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Wartime on Sanctuary Lane
- Sanctuary Lane, Book 1
- By: Kirsty Dougal
- Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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As the Great War rages across Europe, twenty-one-year-old Ruby Archer decides to ‘do her bit’ at an East End munitions factory. The work is relentless and deafening, but the camaraderie of the other girls carries her through. As the threat of another Zeppelin attack grows by the day, Ruby cannot ignore the abandoned animals scavenging the local streets. She rescues a stray kitten, Tess, and takes in an injured terrier Mac, but when all the local cats mysteriously disappear, she knows she needs to do more, and with the help of her friends plans to open a weekly animal clinic.
By: Kirsty Dougal
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
- By: Katherine Arden
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Michael Crouch
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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January 1918. Laura Iven has been discharged from her duties as a nurse and sent back to Halifax, Canada, leaving behind a brother still fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now home, she receives word of Freddie's death in action along with his uniform -but something doesn't quite make sense. November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped under an overturned pillbox with an enemy soldier, a German, each of them badly wounded. Against all odds, the two men form a bond and succeed in clawing their way out.
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painful
- By Magboo on 09-03-24
By: Katherine Arden
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The Street
- By: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The Street is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1919 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the Wolverine amateur journal. The story traces the history of the titular street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as "but a path" in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I.
By: H. P. Lovecraft
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When the World Goes Quiet
- A Novel
- By: Gian Sardar
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1918 in German-occupied Bruges, Belgium. With luck, Evelien will make it to the end of the war and be given what she was promised: a prized painting in exchange for safeguarding her employer’s possessions. Until then, Evelien knows to keep her head down and stay out of trouble. But life never goes to plan, especially in war. A member of the Resistance approaches Evelien: steal a list of names hidden in her employer’s home.
By: Gian Sardar
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The Soulmate Homecoming
- The Soulmate Call, Book 8
- By: Tiffany Ann
- Narrated by: Kathy Handrock
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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All of his life Benjamin hadn't noticed Sarah as anything other than his best friend's sister. The last thing he expected was to notice her as more than a friend, but he did. No sooner does he realize his love for her, America enters the war. War changes a man. He'd heard that dozens of times over his life but with every near miss, every new scar, every bullet he feels himself chipping away. Even if he survives to go home to his soulmate, what man would he be? How much of him would she recognize?
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homecoming
- By Siobhan D on 21-04-24
By: Tiffany Ann
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The Paris Peacemakers
- By: Flora Johnston
- Narrated by: Karen Bartke
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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As the fragile negotiations of the international Peace Conference get underway, typist Stella Rutherford throws herself into her work and the mixture of glamour and devastation the City of Light reveals. Anything to escape the grief coming in waves for her beloved brother Jack. Her sister Corran is about to put her academic career to use among the troops in France, a chance to see what the experience was like for countless men, including her fiancé Rob.
By: Flora Johnston
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Wartime on Sanctuary Lane
- Sanctuary Lane, Book 1
- By: Kirsty Dougal
- Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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As the Great War rages across Europe, twenty-one-year-old Ruby Archer decides to ‘do her bit’ at an East End munitions factory. The work is relentless and deafening, but the camaraderie of the other girls carries her through. As the threat of another Zeppelin attack grows by the day, Ruby cannot ignore the abandoned animals scavenging the local streets. She rescues a stray kitten, Tess, and takes in an injured terrier Mac, but when all the local cats mysteriously disappear, she knows she needs to do more, and with the help of her friends plans to open a weekly animal clinic.
By: Kirsty Dougal
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
- By: Katherine Arden
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Michael Crouch
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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January 1918. Laura Iven has been discharged from her duties as a nurse and sent back to Halifax, Canada, leaving behind a brother still fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now home, she receives word of Freddie's death in action along with his uniform -but something doesn't quite make sense. November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped under an overturned pillbox with an enemy soldier, a German, each of them badly wounded. Against all odds, the two men form a bond and succeed in clawing their way out.
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painful
- By Magboo on 09-03-24
By: Katherine Arden
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The Street
- By: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The Street is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1919 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the Wolverine amateur journal. The story traces the history of the titular street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as "but a path" in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I.
By: H. P. Lovecraft
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When the World Goes Quiet
- A Novel
- By: Gian Sardar
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1918 in German-occupied Bruges, Belgium. With luck, Evelien will make it to the end of the war and be given what she was promised: a prized painting in exchange for safeguarding her employer’s possessions. Until then, Evelien knows to keep her head down and stay out of trouble. But life never goes to plan, especially in war. A member of the Resistance approaches Evelien: steal a list of names hidden in her employer’s home.
By: Gian Sardar