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Foundation
- The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors: The History of England, Book 1
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In Foundation the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death of the first Tudor king, Henry VII, in 1509. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past - a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house.
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Foundation
- The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors: The History of England, Book 1
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Series: The History of England, Book 1
- Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2015-02-24
- Language: English
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Tudors
- The History of England From Henry VIII to Elizabeth I: History of England, Book 2
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental audiobook in his History of England series, charting the course of English history from Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I.
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Tudors
- The History of England From Henry VIII to Elizabeth I: History of England, Book 2
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Series: The History of England, Book 2
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2015-03-05
- Language: English
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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Keith Moore, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin McPhillamy, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Author Peter Ackroyd has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Whitbread Novel of the Year, and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s immortal work, this retelling of The Canterbury Tales follows a party of travelers as they tell stories amongst themselves about love and chivalry, saints and legends, travel and adventure. Through allegory, satire, and humor, the tales help pass the time during their journey.
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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
- Narrated by: Keith Moore, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin McPhillamy, John Curless, John Keating, Graeme Malcolm, Davina Porter, Steven Crossley
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2011-10-27
- Language: English
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Venice
- Pure City
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The Venetians' language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the land. This latest work from the incomparable Peter Ackroyd, like a magic gondola, transports its listeners to that sensual and surprising city. His account embraces facts and romance, conjuring up the atmosphere of the canals, bridges, and sunlit squares, the churches and the markets, the festivals and the flowers.
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Impressionistic portait
- By TSH on 2023-10-05
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Venice
- Pure City
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2010-11-09
- Language: English
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Innovation
- The History of England from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd’s History of England to a triumphant close. Ackroyd takes listeners from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the 20th century, when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne for almost five decades.
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Innovation
- The History of England from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Series: The History of England, Book 6
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-28
- Language: English
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Revolution
- The History of England, Book 4
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes listeners from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was - again - at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Late Stuart and Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state. The Bank of England was founded, as was the stock exchange.
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Revolution
- The History of England, Book 4
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Series: The History of England, Book 4
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-10
- Language: English
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Dominion
- The History of England Series, Book 5
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning the end of the Regency, Ackroyd takes listeners from the accession of the profligate George IV, whose government was steered by Lord Liverpool, whose face was set against reform, to the "Sailor King" William IV, whose reign saw the modernization of the political system and the abolition of slavery. But it was the accession of Queen Victoria, at only 18 years old, that sparked an era of enormous innovation. Technological progress - from steam railways to the first telegram - swept the nation, and the finest inventions were showcased at the first Great Exhibition in 1851.
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Good overview but heavy on parliamentary politics
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-09-13
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Dominion
- The History of England Series, Book 5
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Series: The History of England, Book 5
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-09
- Language: English
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Rebellion
- The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 19 hrs
- Unabridged
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England's turbulent seventeenth century is vividly laid out before us, but so too is the cultural and social life of the period, notable for its extraordinarily rich literature, including Shakespeare's late masterpieces, Jacobean tragedy, the poetry of John Donne and Milton, and Thomas Hobbes's great philosophical treatise, Leviathan. Rebellion also gives us a very real sense of the lives of ordinary English men and women, lived out against a backdrop of constant disruption and uncertainty.
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Great book - awful performance
- By Nick on 2023-01-02
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Rebellion
- The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Series: The History of England, Book 3
- Length: 19 hrs
- Release date: 2014-12-03
- Language: English
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The Life of Thomas More
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Life of Thomas More went straight to #1 on the London Times best seller list when published in the United Kingdom. It remained in that position for over a month, garnering the kind of praise that is rarely given. Thomas More was not only a great man of the church, he was also arguably the most brilliant lawyer the English-speaking world has ever known.
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The Life of Thomas More
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2006-01-30
- Language: English
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Hawksmoor
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor was first published in 1985. Alternating between the eighteenth century, when Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Christopher Wren, builds seven London churches that house a terrible secret, and the 1980s, when London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sight of certain old churches, Hawksmoor is a brilliant tale of darkness and shadow.
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difficult read and the philosophy was lost on me
- By Tracy O'Mealy on 2021-02-02
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Hawksmoor
- Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2010-11-05
- Language: English
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Chatterton
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Poet, forger, and genius, Thomas Chatterton died in 1770, aged 18. His death was thought to be suicide: But what really happened? Two hundred years later, Charles Wychwood and Harriet Scrope become obsessed with decoding the clues in an 18th-century manuscript. Their investigation raises some intriguing questions....
A century before, as 19th-century artist Henry Wallis paints his celebrated portrait of Chatterton lying dead in an attic room, he, too, becomes fascinated by the mystery. Then Chatterton himself steps forward, with his own story....
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Chatterton
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2012-12-06
- Language: English
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Wilkie Collins
- A Brief Life
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Ackroyd follows his hero, "the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists", from his childhood as the son of a well-known artist to his struggling beginnings as a writer, his years of fame, and his lifelong friendship with the other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens. In addition to his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone - often called the first true detective novel - and the sensational The Woman in White, Collins produced an intriguing array of lesser-known works.
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Wilkie Collins
- A Brief Life
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2015-10-06
- Language: English
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- Written by: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the ""Best Crime Novel of all Time"" Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christie’s ten favorite novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal...
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A must read for any mystery lover!
- By Anonymous on 2018-09-19
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Series: A Hercule Poirot Mystery, Book 4
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2012-07-03
- Language: English
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Chaucer
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Geoffrey Chaucer, who died in 1400, lived a surprisingly eventful life. He served with the Duke of Clarence and with Edward III, and in 1359 was taken prisoner in France and ransomed. Through his wife, Philippa, he gained the patronage of John of Gaunt, which helped him carve out a career at Court. His posts included Controller of Customs at the Port of London, Knight of the Shire for Kent, and King's Forester. He went on numerous adventurous diplomatic missions to France and Italy.
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Chaucer
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2006-09-29
- Language: English
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd & The Hollow
- Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook
- Written by: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the ""Best Crime Novel of all Time"" Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christie’s ten favorite novels, The Murder of Roger...
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A Double Dose of Detective Brilliance
- By Aaron on 2024-01-31
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd & The Hollow
- Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Series: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2022-01-04
- Language: English
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- The Hercule Poirot Mysteries, Book 4
- Written by: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: John Lee, John Rubinstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement to solve one of the most vexing cases of his career. The quiet village of King’s Abbot is still reeling from the death of the widow Ferrars from an overdoes of Veronal, when not twenty-four hours later it is learned that the man she planned to marry, Roger Ackroyd, has been brutally murdered. Prior to his death, Ackroyd had been reading an article in the Evening Post to discover who had been blackmailing his wife over poisoning her first husband. But before he could learn who the blackmailer was, he was stabbed through the neck in his own study.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- The Hercule Poirot Mysteries, Book 4
- Narrated by: John Lee, John Rubinstein
- Series: A Hercule Poirot Mystery, Book 4
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2023-06-20
- Language: English
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The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht, Simon Prebble, Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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If your tastes run to Victorian mysteries and murder, you’ll enjoy Peter Ackroyd’s special blending of fact and fiction in this magnificent recreation of the bizarre murders that rocked Victorian England. Drawing on surviving police records and court transcripts, Ackroyd paints a fascinating portrait of a savage murderer, the terror that rippled across London, and the innocent woman charged with the crimes.
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Fascinating
- By Ann M. Broomfield on 2023-09-16
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The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht, Simon Prebble, Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2011-11-29
- Language: English
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The Sign of Four
- Penguin Classics
- Written by: Arthur Conan Doyle, Peter Ackroyd - introduction
- Narrated by: Christopher Eccleston
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose...
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Honestly, I didn't finish it.
- By Kindle Customer on 2024-07-26
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The Sign of Four
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Christopher Eccleston
- Series: Sherlock Holmes, Book 2
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2020-06-25
- Language: English
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
- Written by: Edgar Allan Poe, Peter Ackroyd, David Galloway
- Narrated by: Tom Ravenscroft, Catherine Bailey
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates his intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher is a slow-burning Gothic horror, describing the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past.
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
- Narrated by: Tom Ravenscroft, Catherine Bailey
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-27
- Language: English
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Tales of London: Hawksmoor and Others
- Four BBC Radio 4 Dramas
- Written by: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Philip Jackson, Norman Rodway, Adjoa Andoh, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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A superb collection of dramas guaranteed to thrill and entertain from best-selling author Peter Ackroyd. Set in the heart of London, these star-studded adaptations feature parallel investigations into killings across two centuries, black magic, haunted houses, holy ghosts and a stunning performance by Simon Callow as the magnificent Charles Dickens. Novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd has cemented his place at the heart of the culture and history of London. This fantastic collection is full of vitality from a world-class author and stellar cast.
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Tales of London: Hawksmoor and Others
- Four BBC Radio 4 Dramas
- Narrated by: Philip Jackson, Norman Rodway, Adjoa Andoh, Jamie Foreman, Peter Marinker, Philip Glenister, Nigel Anthony, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Simon Callow, Miranda Foster, Anthony Ofoegbu, full cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2024-01-25
- Language: English
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