Showing results by publisher "Penguin Audio" in Biographical Fiction
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A Dress of Violet Taffeta
- By: Tessa Arlen
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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Lucy Duff Gordon knows she is talented. She sees color, light, and texture in ways few people can begin to imagine. But is the male dominated world of haute couture, who would use her art for their own gain, ready for her? When she is deserted by her wealthy husband, Lucy is left penniless with an aging mother and her five-year-old daughter to support. Desperate to survive, Lucy turns to her one true talent to make a living. A
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A Dress of Violet Taffeta
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 05-07-22
- Language: English
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Her Lost Words
- A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
- By: Stephanie Marie Thornton
- Narrated by: Grace Gray, Hannah Curtis
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father’s violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author of the landmark volume A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she dares to propose that women are equal to men. From conservative England to the blood-drenched streets of revolutionary France, Mary refuses to bow to society’s conventions and instead supports herself with her pen until an illicit love affair challenges her every belief about romance and marriage.
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This one will stay with me for a while…
- By E Pattison on 20-06-23
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Her Lost Words
- A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
- Narrated by: Grace Gray, Hannah Curtis
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 28-03-23
- Language: English
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Emily's House
- By: Amy Belding Brown
- Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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Massachusetts, 1869. Margaret Maher has never been one to settle down. At 27, she's never met a man who has tempted her enough to relinquish her independence to a matrimonial fate, and she hasn't stayed in one place for long since her family fled the potato famine a decade ago. When Maggie accepts a temporary position at the illustrious Dickinson family home in Amherst, it's only to save money for her upcoming trip West to join her brothers in California. Maggie never imagines she will form a life-altering friendship with the eccentric, brilliant Miss Emily.
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Emily's House
- Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-08-21
- Language: English
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Yorùbá Boy Running
- By: Biyi Bandele
- Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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1821: Thirteen-year-old Àjàyí is snatched from the Nigerian village of Òsogùn by slave raiders who burn the town and enslave its people. Shackled and taken to Lagos, he is certain he will never see his family again. Freed by English warships, Àjàyí is put in the care of the Church Missionary Society and baptised Samuel Crowther. Quickly rising through the ranks of the church, Crowther never forgets the driving passion of his life: to end the slave trade, by any means necessary.
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Yorùbá Boy Running
- Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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A Most Clever Girl
- A Novel of an American Spy
- By: Stephanie Marie Thornton
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
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The year 1963: Reeling from the death of her mother and President Kennedy’s assassination, Catherine Gray shows up on Elizabeth Bentley’s doorstep demanding answers to the shocking mystery she just uncovered about her family. What she doesn’t expect is for Bentley to ensnare her in her own story of becoming a controversial World War II spy and Cold War informer.
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A Most Clever Girl
- A Novel of an American Spy
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 14-09-21
- Language: English
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Harlem Rhapsody
- By: Victoria Christopher Murray
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
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In 1919, as civil and social unrest grips the country, there is a little corner of America, a place called Harlem where something special is stirring. Here, the New Negro is rising and Black pride is evident everywhere…in music, theatre, fashion and the arts. And there on stage in the center of this renaissance is Jessie Redmon Fauset, the new literary editor of the preeminent Negro magazine The Crisis. W.E.B. Du Bois, the founder and editor of The Crisis, has charged her with discovering young writers whose words will change the world.
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Harlem Rhapsody
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 04-02-25
- Language: English
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American Princess
- A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt
- By: Stephanie Marie Thornton
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
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Alice may be the president's daughter, but she's nobody's darling. As bold as her signature color Alice Blue, the gum-chewing, cigarette-smoking, poker-playing first daughter discovers that the only way for a woman to stand out in Washington is to make waves - oceans of them. With the canny sophistication of the savviest politician on the Hill, Alice uses her celebrity to her advantage, testing the limits of her power and the seductive thrill of political entanglements.
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Surprising
- By Laura on 15-10-22
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American Princess
- A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 12-03-19
- Language: English
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Let's Call Her Barbie
- By: Renée Rosen
- Length: 12 hrs
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When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and pitches her idea for a doll unlike any other, she knows what she’s setting in motion. It might just take the world a moment to catch up. In 1956, the only dolls on the market for little girls let them pretend to be mothers. Ruth’s vision for a doll shaped like a grown woman and outfitted in an enviable wardrobe will let them dream they can be anything.
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Let's Call Her Barbie
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 21-01-25
- Language: English
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White Collar Girl
- A Novel
- By: Renée Rosen
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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There’s a story out there buried in the muck, and Jordan Walsh, coming from a family of esteemed reporters, wants to be the one to dig it up. But it’s 1955, and the men who dominate the city room of the Chicago Tribune have no interest in making room for a female cub reporter. Instead Jordan is relegated to society news, reporting on Marilyn Monroe sightings at the Pump Room and interviewing secretaries for the White Collar Girl column. Of course, that all changes the moment she establishes a secret source inside Mayor Daley’s office.
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White Collar Girl
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 24-08-21
- Language: English
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The Arrangement
- By: Ashley Warlick
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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She’d made it sound as though her husband would be joining them for dinner. She’d made it sound that way on purpose, and then she arrived alone. Los Angeles, 1934. Mary Frances is young, restlessly married, and returning from her first sojourn in France. She is hungry, and not just for food: She wants Tim, her husband Al’s charming friend, who encourages her writing and seems to understand her better than anyone. After a night’s transgression, it’s only a matter of time before Mary Frances claims what she truly desires.
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The Arrangement
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 09-02-16
- Language: English
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A Little Trickerie
- By: Rosanna Pike
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Born a vagabond, Tibb Ingleby has never had a roof of her own. But her mother has taught her that if you're not too bound by the Big Man's rules, there are many ways a woman can find shelter in this world. Now her ma is dead in a trick gone wrong and young Tibb is orphaned and alone. As she wends her way across the fields and forests of medieval England, Tibb will discover there are people who will care for her, as well as those who mean her harm. And there are a great many others who are prepared to believe just about anything.
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A Little Trickerie
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 01-08-24
- Language: English
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Into a Star
- By: Puk Qvortrup, Hazel Evans - translator
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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Puk is 26 years old, preparing for the birth of her second child, when her husband has a heart attack while out running. She leaves their toddler with a friend and dashes to the hospital, where Lasse lies unresponsive in a coma. He dies a few hours later. Into a Star follows Puk and her young family in the first year after this tragedy, which has shattered the ordinary life she imagined for them. As the days turn to weeks and months, Puk's second son is born, her sister moves in, her relationship with her in-laws fractures and evolves.
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Into a Star
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: English
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Becoming Belle
- By: Nuala O'Connor
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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In 1887, Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a middle-class military family, growing up in a small garrison town. By 1891 she is the Countess of Clancarty, dubbed "the peasant countess" by the press, and a member of the Irish aristocracy. Becoming Belle is the story of the four years in between, of Belle's rapid ascent and the people that tried to tear her down. With only her talent, charm, and determination, Isabel moves to London alone at age 19, changes her name to Belle, and takes the city by storm, facing unthinkable hardships as she rises to fame.
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Becoming Belle
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-08-18
- Language: English
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