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Vindolanda
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
AD 98. The bustling army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world. In just over 20 years' time, the Emperor Hadrian will build his famous wall. But for now, defences are weak as tribes rebel against Rome.
It falls to Flavius Ferox, Briton and Roman centurion, to keep the peace. But it will take more than just a soldier's courage to survive life in Roman Britain.
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- Simon Collins
- 09-05-23
Strong narration, good plot, weak ending
Strong narration, good plot, slightly weak ending. Excellent range of accents and tones by narrator. Interesting storyline with a great action-packed climax to one element of the plot but a weaker ending to the second intrigue element.
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- William forder
- 09-06-19
Great story
if you like books by Bernard Cornwall you'll probably like this. It is exciting and it's good to have some fiction about Romans in Britain.
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- Vaan
- 23-02-19
Worth reading
Obviously well researched and taking a slightly different approach by making the hero a native Briton serving in the Roman army. As usual the women dont really figure. I will read the second in the series.
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- Wowbagger_The_Third
- 20-10-21
Interesting wee historical details
I listened to this whilst walking Hadrian’s Wall, it was kind of ok background and the odd wee moment stuck out but I admit the rest kind of washed over me and I found it hard to tune in to the plot…
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- Argent
- 12-12-22
Patchy
I'm a sucker for historical drama and have been all my life. This should have ticked many boxes but it never quite lived up to its promise.
Well researched and a strong sense of location, the book was let down by a somewhat disjointed plot, characters who failed to fully convince, and the vocal talents of Peter Noble featured some over-egged accents. Latin doesn't have to sound so strange!
3 stars.
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- The Curator
- 09-02-18
At last a proper roman novel
Adrian Goldsworthy is not someone who would write drivel about roman Britain so I thought I’d be in safe hands. To find the spark for the novel was the party invite from the Vindolanda tablets made me way more excited than it probably should but it worked so well. Peter Noble is to be praised for not mangling the Latin terms as so many narrators do. All those blokes churning out Roman military boys own stories should be force fed this book to see how it’s done.
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- Mr. Gordon Downie
- 04-09-18
Vindolanda
Loved this book from start to finish. It is obvious that the author has a wide knowledge of the Roman army and it’s activities in northern Britain at this time. I must also give high praise to the reader who brought the times and the characters to life.
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- jjm
- 11-09-18
great dramatisation and attention to detail
fast paced and intricate in detail. the author has seriously done his homework, great read.
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- Mr. Anthony D. Bateman
- 15-08-18
impeccable research
loving historical fiction as I do, the best books are by academics giving the reader an insight into the era, and Adrian Goldsworthy is premiere of these. there is of course a great story evolved around this research with characters good and bad on both sides with plenty of intrigue and descriptive battles, all of which I thourghly enjoyed. I can only hope audible release more of his work.
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- Street
- 03-03-20
Enjoyable
Obviously well researched but appears to have been written by an historian rather than a novelist - well performed with what he had to work with but the characters were very basic.Heavy going but worth the listen.
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