Fabulous historical novel set in the court of King Henry VIII.
Mary Boleyn attracts the attention of the young king and becomes his mistress; when he tires of her, she sets out to school her sister, Anne, as a replacement.
Politics and passion are inextricably bound together in this compelling drama. The Boleyn family is keen to rise through the ranks of society, and what better way to attract the attention of the most powerful in the land than to place their most beautiful young woman at court?
But Mary becomes the king’s mistress at a time of change. He needs his personal pleasures, but he also needs an heir. The unthinkable happens and the course of English history is irrevocably changed. For the women at the heart of the storm, they have only one weapon; and when it’s no longer enough to be the mistress, Mary must groom her younger sister in the ways of the king.
What happens next is common knowledge – but here it is told in a way we’ve never heard it before, with all of Philippa Gregory’s characteristic perceptiveness, backed by meticulous research and superb storytelling skills.
Paul Brickhill
Narrator : Robert Whitfield
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 9 hours
Categories : American British 20th Century Military
Price : $32.95 $16.95
With only bare hands and crude tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored uniforms and clothes. A split-second operation as delic... View...
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Gilbert White
Narrator : James Taylor
Published By : Audio Books Ltd
Length : 10 hours 45 minutes
Categories : Biographical British Pre 1900 Biographical Knowledge & Learning
Price : $31.49
'The Natural History of Selborne' has become part of that curious concoction of ideas and artefacts, which are seen as somehow defining "the English way of life." View...
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Berwick Coates
Narrator : Berwick Coates
Published By : Berwick Coates
Length : 49 minutes
Categories : Pre 1900 British Military Politics Historical
Price : $8.49
Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, is the only professional soldier in English history to have served also as Prime Minister... View...
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Jane Austen
Narrator : Juliet Stevenson
Published By : Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 3 hours
Categories : Classic Classics Historical British Social & Economic
Price : $29.61 $14.25
Of all Jane Austin's books Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. View...
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Christopher Lee
Narrator : Anna Massey
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 3 hours
Categories : Non Fiction British Pre 1900
Price : $22.25
The story of Britain from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, specially written for BBC Radio 4 by Christopher Lee, narrated by Anna Massey View...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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