Harper Collins



Harper CollinsAdult FictionHistorical fictionBrooks, Geraldine. Caleb's Crossing. 2011. Historical fiction. TB700420.Caleb, a Wampanoag from the island of Martha's Vineyard, is desperate to escape the brutal and doctrinaire Puritanism of the Massachusetts Bay colony. The story is told through the eyes of Bethia, daughter of the English minister who educates Caleb in the Latin and Greek he needs in order to enter college. Bethia, trapped by the narrow strictures of her faith and her gender, seeks connections with Caleb's world that will challenge her beliefs and set her at odds with her community.Read by Jennifer Ehle. 12 hours 5 minutes.Case, Alison. Nelly Dean. 2015. Historical fiction. TB700524.Young Nelly Dean has been Hindley's closest companion for as long as she can remember, living freely at the great house, Wuthering Heights. But when the benevolence of the master brings a wild child into the house, Nelly must follow in her mother's footsteps, be called servant and give herself to the family completely. But Nelly is not the only one who must serve. When a new heir is born, a reign of violence begins that will test Nelly's spirit as she finds out what it is to know true sacrifice.Read by Charlie Sanderson. 16 hours 18 minutes.Cornwell, Bernard. Fools and Mortals. 2017. Historical fiction.TB702298.In the heart of Elizabethan England, Richard Shakespeare is a young actor struggling to make his way in a company dominated by his estranged older brother, William. When a priceless manuscript goes missing, suspicion falls upon Richard, forcing him onto a perilous path through a bawdy and frequently brutal London. To avoid the gallows, Richard must play the part of a lifetime.Read by Thomas Judd. 10 hours 28 minutes.Crichton, Michael. Dragon teeth. 2017. Historical fiction. TB701929.The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. Against this backdrop two palaeontologists pillage the Wild West for dinosaur fossils, while deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars.Read by Scott Brick and Michael Crichton. 7 hours 40 minutes.Dean, Rebecca. Enemies of the heart. 2010. Family stories.TB700241.Zelda and Vicky, two cousins, one American, one British, marry into a prestigious German family, early in the twentieth century. The German patriarch runs Remer steel, and when Vicky learns that the firm is producing weaponry for the German army, she returns with her children to her native Yorkshire. Zelda is eager to meld into Berlin's high society and sever all ties with her American identity. But beneath her exotic looks, Zelda holds a deeply hidden secret that if revealed, could threaten everything she holds dear.Read by Helen Longworth. 20 hours 41 minutes.Dean, Rebecca. The golden prince. 2010. Historical fiction.TB700452.In the summer of 1911 a moment of serendipity brings Prince Edward VIII and Lily Houghton together. Raised by the harsh disciplinarian King George V and his unfeeling Queen Mary, the prince longed for the warmth that had been deprived of him. But a future monarch could not choose his own Queen. Could the devotion of Edward and Lily triumph against a furious King?Read by Amy Hall. 13 hours 54 minutes.Delaney, Wray. An almond for a parrot. 2016. Historical fiction.TB700175.London, 1756 hours In Newgate prison, Tully Truegood awaits trial. Her fate hanging in the balance, she tells her life-story. It’s a tale that takes her from skivvy in the back streets of London, to conjuror’s assistant, to celebrated courtesan at her stepmother’s Fairy House, the notorious house of ill-repute where decadent excess is a must. Tully was once the talk of the town but now her only chance of survival is to get her story to the one person who can help her avoid the gallows.Read by Rachel Atkins. 10 hours 53 minutes.Dhand, Roxane. The Pearler's Wife. 2018. Historical fiction. TB702828.The year is 1912. Nineteen-year-old Maisie Porter watches from the deck of the SS Oceanic as England fades from view. Her destination is Buccaneer Bay in Australia's far north-west. Her fate: marriage to distant cousin Maitland Sinclair, a man she has never met. When Maisie arrives in her new home, she finds a stifling small town bound by Victorian morals. Shocked at her new husband's callous behaviour towards her, she is increasingly drawn to William Cooper, a British diver she met on board ship. It soon becomes clear that secrets surround her husband, as turbulent as the waters that crash against the bay. Secrets that somehow link to her own family - and secrets that put Cooper and his fellow British divers in great danger.Read by Madeleine Hyland. 10 hours 38 minutes.Druon, Maurice. The iron king. 2013. Historical fiction. TB700459.Accursed Kings: book 1. The series that inspired George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones. France became a great nation under Philip the Fair - but it was a greatness achieved at the expense of her people, for his was a reign characterised by violence, the scandalous eries of his daughters-in-law, and the triumph of royal authority.Read by Peter Joyce. 11 hours 2 minutes.Druon, Maurice. The strangled queen. 2013. Historical fiction.TB700547.Accursed Kings: book 2. The King is dead. Long live the King. With King Philip IV dead, and the Kingdom left in disarray, as the fatal curse of the Templars plagues the royal house of France. Imprisoned in Chateau Gaillard, Marguerite of Burgundy has fallen into disgrace. Her infidelity has left her estranged husband, Louis X King of France, with neither heir nor wife. The web of scandal, murder and intrigue that once wove itself around the Iron King continues to afflict his descendants, as the destruction of his dynasty continues at the hands of fate.Read by Peter Joyce. 8 hours 27 minutes.Druon, Maurice. The poisoned crown. 2013. Historical fiction.TB700651.The Accursed Kings: book 3. The puny, self-impotent Louis X, having caused his first wife to be murdered and his mistress exiled, becomes besotted with the lovely Clemence, his new Queen. Vacillating between self-pity and vainglory he is caught between the vaulting ambitions of proud, profligate barons.Read by Peter Joyce. 8 hours 22 minutes.Druon, Maurice. The royal succession. 2014. Historical fiction.TB700735.Accursed Kings: book 4. Louis X is dead, poisoned, murdered, by the hand of Mahaut d'Artois. Her plan is simple - to clear the path to the throne for her son-in-law Philippe. However, there is the small matter of Queen Clemence and her unborn child. As the country is thrown into turmoil, Philippe of Poitiers must use any means necessary to save his country from anarchy.Read by Peter Joyce. 10 hours.Druon, Maurice. The she-wolf. 2014. Historical fiction. TB700929.Accursed Kings: book 5. Charles IV is now king of France and his sister is Edward II of England's Queen. Having been imprisoned by Edward as leader of the rebellious English barons, Roger Mortimer escapes to France, where he joins the war against the English Aquitaine. But it is his love affair with Isabella, the 'She-Wolf of France', who has come seemingly to negotiate a treaty of peace that seals his fate.Read by Peter Joyce. 13 hours 6 minutes.Fraser, George MacDonald. The reavers. 2007. Historical fiction. TB700252.Elizabethan England, and a dastardly Spanish plot to take over the throne is uncovered. It's up to Agent Archie Noble to save Queen and country. Spoiled, arrogant, filthy rich, and breathtakingly beautiful, the young Lady Godiva Dacre is exiled from the court of Good Queen Bess to her lonely estate in distant Cumberland. Little does she guess that the turbulent Scottish border is the last place for an Elizabethan heiress.Read by Bill Wallis. 8 hours 36 minutes.Fraser, George MacDonald. Flashman and the Mountain of Light. 2015. Historical fiction. TB701635.Flashman: book 9. Given the choice between defending Britannia's frontier against the mighty Sikh army and pleasuring a ravishing maharani in the Court of the Punjab, Flashman knew where he'd rather be. Of course, that was before he found out about the torture chambers or the malevolent influence of the Mountain of Light. Read by Colin Mace. 11 hours 32 minutes.Fraser, George MacDonald. Black Ajax. 2015. Historical fiction. TB700552.When Captain Buck Flashman sees the black boxer catch a fly in mid-flight he realizes that he is in the presence of speed such as the prize ring has never seen. Tom Molineaux may be crude and untutored, but if 'Mad Buck' knows anything (and like his notorious son, the archcad Harry Flashman, he has an unerring eye for the main chance), this ex-slave from America is a Champion in the making, on whose broad shoulders the ambitious Captain can climb to sporting and social fame.Read by Colin Mace. 10 hours 26 minutes.Garland, Rosie. The palace of curiosities. 2013. Historical fiction. TB700555.Cast out by Victorian society, Eve and Abel find succour from an unlikely source. They soar to fame as The Lion Faced Girl and The Flayed Man, star performers in Professor Josiah Arroner's Palace of Curiosities. And there begins a journey that will entwine their fates forever.Read by Jane Copland. 11 hours 21 minutes.Garland, Rosie. Vixen. 2014. Historical fiction. TB700254.Devon, 1349. Father Thomas arrives as the new priest in Brauntone. Determined to impress his congregation, he quells fears of the coming pestilence with promises of protection. Sixteen year old Anne moves in as Thomas's housekeeper. When a strange, mute Maid is discovered, washed up in the marshes, and taken in, Anne is grateful for the company. But soon the plague strikes Brauntone, spreading panic. And as the villagers' fear turns to anger, Thomas must sacrifice everything to restore their faith in him. Read by James Lailey and Alex Tregear. 13 hours 8 minutes.Hickson, Joanna. Red rose, white rose. 2014. Historical fiction. TB700264.In fifteenth century England the Neville family rules the north with an iron fist. Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, a giant of a man and a staunch Lancastrian, cunningly arranges marriage between his youngest daughter, nine-year-old Cicely, and his ward Richard, the thirteen-year -old Duke of York, England's richest heir. Born of Lancaster and married to York, the willowy and wayward Cicely treads a hazardous path through love, loss and imprisonment and between the violent factions of Lancaster and York, as the Wars of the Roses tear England’s ruling families apart.Read by Chloe Massey. 13 hours 43 minutes.Hickson, Joanna. The Tudor Crown. 2018. Historical fiction. TB703041.She'll betray her King to crown her son. When Edward of York takes back the English crown, the Wars of the Roses scatter the Lancastrian nobility and young Henry Tudor, with a strong claim to the throne, is forced into exile. Recently widowed and vulnerable, his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, forges an uncomfortable alliance with Edward's queen, Elizabeth Woodville. Swearing an oath of allegiance to York, Margaret agrees to marry the king's shrewdest courtier, Lord Stanley. But can she tread the precarious line between duty to her husband, loyalty to her son, and her obligation to God and the king?Read by Karen Cass and Oliver J Hembrough. 14 hours 53 minutes.Holsinger, Bruce. A burnable book. 2014. Historical fiction. TB700937.John Gower: book 1. London, 1385. A city of shadows and fear, in a kingdom ruled by the headstrong young King Richard II, haunted by the spectre of revolt. A place of poetry and prophecy, where power is bought by blood. For John Gower, part-time poet and full-time trader in information, secrets are his currency. When close confidant, fellow poet Geoffrey Chaucer, calls in an old debt, Gower cannot refuse. Read by Tim Bruce. 14 hours 8 minutes.Horan, Ellen. 31 Bond Street. 2010. Historical fiction. TB700938.The sensational murder of Dr. Harvey Burdell in his lower Manhattan home made front-page news across the United States in 1857. "Who killed Dr. Burdell?" was a question that gripped the nation. 31 Bond Street, a debut novel by Ellen Horan, interweaves fiction with actual events in a historical narrative that blends romance, politics, greed and sexual intrigue in a suspenseful drama. Read by Adam Grupper. 10 hours 23 minutes.Low, Robert. The lion wakes. 2011. Historical fiction. TB700284.Kingdom trilogy: book 1. In the dying days of the 13th century, Scotland is in turmoil. The death of Alexander III has plunged the country into war, both with itself and with Edward I of England. Determined to bring the north under his control, Edward instead unleashes a Scottish rebellion which unites the many warring factions against him. Sir Hal Sientcler of Herdmanston, a minor noble of Lothian, finds himself caught up in the chivalry and honour, as well as the betrayal and murder that form these desperate days.Read by David Gonet. 11 hours 27 minutes.McGee, James. Rebellion. 2013. Historical fiction. TB701171.Matthew Hawkwood: book 4. October 1812 hours Britain and France are still at war. Meanwhile in London, Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood has been seconded to the foreign arm of the Secret Service. There, he meets the urbane Henry Brooke, who tells him he's to join a colleague in Paris on a special mission. If the plan is successful it could lead to a negotiated peace treaty between France and the allies. Failure would mean prison, torture and a meeting with the guillotine.Read by David Timson. 17 hours 22 minutes. McGee, James. The blooding. 2014. Historical fiction. TB701359.Matthew Hawkwood: book 5. Heading for the safety of the Canadian border, Hawkwood's route takes him to Albany where the chance sighting of a former comrade-in-arms, Major Douglas Lawrence, within a consignment of British prisoners puts paid to his plans. For as the two men make their escape they uncover an American plot to invade Canada.Read by David Timson. 17 hours 26 minutes.O'Brien, Anne. The scandalous Duchess. 2016. Historical fiction. TB700489.Widow Lady Katherine Swynford presents herself for a role in the household of merciless royal prince John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, hoping to end her destitution. But the Duke's scandalous proposition leaves her life of pious integrity reeling. Seduced by the glare of royal adoration, Katherine becomes John's mistress. But soon the court whispers - whore, harlot, vile temptress - reach the ears of not just John's bride but his most dangerous political enemies.Read by Lucy Paterson. 17 hours 21 minutes.O'Brien, Anne. The king's concubine. 2016. Historical fiction. TB700958.Philippa of Hainault selects a young orphan from a convent. Alice Perrers, a girl born with nothing but ambition. The Queen has a role waiting for her at court. Led down the corridors of the royal palace, the young virgin is secretly delivered to King Edward III, to perform the wifely duties of which ailing Philippa is no longer capable. Power has a price, and Alice Perrers will pay it.Read by Sophie Aldred. 17 hours 2 minutes.O'Brien, Anne. The forbidden queen. 2016. Historical fiction. TB700295.It's 1415. The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for King Henry V. The brutal King wants her crown, not her innocent love. For Katherine, England is a lion's den of greed, avarice and mistrust. And when Katherine is widowed at 21, she is a prize ripe for the taking. Her young son will be the future monarch, her hand in marriage is worth a kingdom. This is a deadly political game, one the Dowager Queen must learn fast.Read by Emily Lucienne. 17 hours 16 minutes.O'Brien, Anne. Devil's consort. 2016. Historical fiction. TB700701.Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, is a determined woman who plots and schemes an astonishing path between two equally powerful men in twelfth century Europe. Eleanor is single-minded in her struggle to keep her inheritance intact, leading her to reject one husband and take another who will fulfil her desires. Eleanor intends to reign as Queen and is prepared to bring scandal down upon herself in pursuit of her ultimate prize.Read by Emma Gregory. 15 hours 46 minutes.O'Brien, Anne. Virgin widow. 2016. Historical fiction. TB700786.Anne Neville is the heiress and daughter of the greatest powerbroker in the land, Warwick the Kingmaker. The Earl of Warwick's ambition and pride lead him into an attempt to depose the Yorkist King; his treason forces his family into exile. Humiliated and powerless in a foreign land, Anne must find the courage and the wit to survive in such a dangerous man's world.Read by Laura Kirman. 14 hours 32 minutes.O'Brien, Anne. The shadow queen. 2017. Historical fiction. TB700068.From her first clandestine marriage Joan of Kent's reputation is one of beauty, scandal and rumour. Her royal blood makes her a desirable bride. Her ambition and passion make her a threat. Joan knows what she has to do to survive. The games to play, the men to marry - even if one man will always have her heart. The story of the woman who would ultimately wield power as the mother to 10 year old King Richard II, from the shadows of the throne.Read by Gabrielle Glaister. 18 hours 15 minutes.O'Brien, Anne. Queen of the North. 2018. Historical fiction. TB703047.1399 hours England's crown is under threat. King Richard II holds onto his power by an ever-weakening thread, with exiled Henry of Lancaster back to reclaim his place on the throne. For Elizabeth Mortimer, there is only one rightful King - her eight-year-old nephew, Edmund. Only he can guarantee her fortunes, and protect her family's rule over the precious Northern lands bordering Scotland. But many, including Elizabeth's husband, do not want another child-King. Elizabeth must hide her true ambitions in Court, and go against her husband's wishes to help build a rebel army.Read by Beth Eyre. 14 hours 20 minutes. Paul, Gill. No place for a lady. 2015. Historical fiction. TB700493.1854. Britain is fighting a gruesome war. There has been no news of Lucy Gray since she eloped with handsome and impetuous Captain Charlie Harvington and embarked with him to the Crimea. Dorothea Gray will risk anything to heal the rift with her little sister and bring her home safe. She determines to join Florence Nightingale and the other courageous women travelling to the battlefield hospitals as nurses. She will not rest until she finds her sister. Lucy, however, is on a very different journey, a journey through tragedy, trauma and true love.Read by Jilly Bond. 12 hours 30 minutes.Plampin, Matthew. Devil's acre. 2010. Historical fiction. TB700500.Spring, 1853. After a triumphant display at the Great Exhibition in London, the legendary American entrepreneur and inventor Colonel Samuel Colt expands his gun-making business into England. He acquires a riverside warehouse in Pimlico and sets about converting it into a pistol works capable of mass producing his patented revolvers on an unprecedented scale. The young, ambitious Edward Lowry is hired by Colt to act as his London secretary. Although initially impressed by the Colonel's dynamic approach to his trade, Edward comes to suspect that the American's intentions in the Metropolis are not all they appear.Read by Lewis Hancock. 13 hours 58 minutes.Plampin, Matthew. Will & Tom. 2015. Historical fiction. TB700705.Will & Tom is a glimpse into the life of the infamous artist JMW Turner as a young man during a week spent at Harewood House fighting for a commission against his childhood friend and rival Tom Girtin. 1797, West Yorkshire. While Tom is welcomed into the aristocratic circle, Will finds few allies. As it becomes harder to ignore the whispers of scandal , Will witnesses something that will threaten both his commission and his friendship.Read by Leighton Pugh. 9 hours 52 minutes.Plampin, Matthew. Mrs Whistler. 2018. Historical fiction. TB703002.Chelsea 1876. Jimmy Whistler stands on the cusp of fame, ready to astound the London art world with his radical paintings. At his side is Maud Franklin, his muse, lover and occasional pupil, sharing his house, his dazzling social life and his grand hopes for the future. But Jimmy's rebelliousness comes at a heavy price for them both as he battles a furious patron, challenges an influential and viciously hostile critic and struggles with a dire lack of cash. Before long a fight for survival is being waged through the galleries, the drawing rooms and even the courts - and Maud, Jimmy's Madame and closest ally, is expected to do her part.Read by Jessica Ball. 12 hours 52 minutes.Ransley, Peter. Cromwell's blessing. 2015. Historical fiction. TB700966.Tom Neave: book 2. The King has surrendered to Parliament. Lord Stonehouse, to show his loyalty to Parliament, has named Tom as his successor. But Lord Stonehouse's son, Richard, is also Tom's estranged father and a fervent Royalist. If the King reaches a settlement with Parliament, Richard will inherit. Parliament itself is deeply divided with those demanding a strict Puritan regime pitted against more liberal Independents like Cromwell. King Charles, under house arrest, tries to exploit the divisions between them.Read by Gordon Griffin. 12 hours 40 minutes.Ransley, Peter. Plague child. 2015. Historical fiction. TB700503.Tom Neave: book 1. September 1625 hours Plague cart driver, Matthew Neave, is sent to pick up the corpse of a baby. Yet, on the way to the plague pit, he hears a cry – the baby is alive. Fifteen years on, Matthew's son Tom is apprenticed to a printer in the City. Somebody is interested in him and is keen to turn him into a gentleman. He is even given an education. But Tom is unaware that he has a benefactor and soon he discovers that someone else is determined to kill him.Read by Gordon Griffin. 14 hours 42 minutes.Sheridan, Sara. The Secret Mandarin. 2017. Historical fiction. TB702357.Desperate to shield her from scandal, Mary's brother-in-law, the ambitious botanist Robert Fortune, forces her to accompany him on a mission to China to steal tea plants for the East India Company. But Robert conceals his secret motives - to spy for the British forces, newly victorious in the recent Opium War. As their quest becomes increasingly treacherous, Robert and Mary disguise themselves as a mandarin and man-servant. Thousands of miles from everything familiar, Mary revels in her new freedom and the Chinese way of life - and when danger strikes, finds unexpected reserves of courage.Read by Ana Clements. 12 hours 39 minutes.Sidebottom, Harry. Iron and rust. 2015. Historical fiction. TB700306.Throne of the Caesars: book 1. In spring AD 235, a surprise attack and the brutal murder of Emperor Alexander and his mother ends the Severan dynasty and shatters four decades of Roman certainty. Military hero Maximinus Thrax is the first Caesar risen from the barracks. A simple man of steel and violence, he will fight for Rome unconditionally. The merciless war against the barbarians rages in the north. Personal tragedy, as well as the whispers of conspirators, will drive Maximinus to the borders of sanity.Read by Colin Mace. 11 hours 16 minutes.Sidebottom, Harry. Blood and steel. 2015. Historical fiction. TB700376.Throne of the Caesars: book 2. Rome, AD238 Emperor Maximinus' reign hangs in the balance. In Africa, Gordian the Elder and Younger are proclaimed as the new Augusti. A family descending from the imperial bloodline, they represent a chance for the establishment to take back the empire. In Rome, the first blood of the revolt is shed when an assassin murders Maximinus' prefect and announces to Rome that their ruler is dead and the Gordians have taken the throne. Still bitter at having a soldier from the barracks wearing the imperial purple, the Senate endorses the rebellion: the Gordiani are hailed as Emperors. But as chaos descends on the capital, news reaches Maximinus of the betrayal.Read by Colin Mace. 10 hours 37 minutes.Sidebottom, Harry. Fire and sword. 2016. Historical fiction. TB700979.Throne of the Caesars: book 3. Rome AD238. The Year of the Six Emperors. The empire is in turmoil. With the Gordiani, father and son, dead in Africa, the tyrant Maximinus Thrax vies to reclaim the throne. The Senate, who supported the revolt of the Gordiani, must act quickly to avoid the vengeance of Maximinus. They elect two Senators to share the imperial purple, but fighting erupts in the streets as ambitious men call for violent revolution.Read by Colin Mace. 10 hours 59 minutesSmith, Wilbur. Pharaoh. 2016. Historical fiction. TB700201.Egyptian: book 6. Pharaoh Tamose is dead and a poisonous new era has begun. The new Pharaoh has risen. Pharaoh Utteric is young, weak and cruel, and threatened by ex-slave Taita’s influence within the palace, especially his friendship with Utteric’s younger and worthier brother, Ramases. With Taita’s imprisonment, Ramases is forced to make a choice: help Taita escape and forsake his brother, or remain silent and condone Utteric’s tyranny.Read by Mike Grady. 13 hours 49 minutes.Stewart, Michael. Ill Will. 2018. Historical fiction. TB702640.I am William Lee: brute; liar, and graveside thief. But you will know me by another name. Heathcliff has left Wuthering Heights, and is travelling across the moors to Liverpool in search of his past. Along the way, he saves Emily, the foul-mouthed daughter of a Highwayman, from a whipping, and the pair journey on together. Roaming from graveyard to graveyard, making a living from Emily's apparent ability to commune with the dead, the pair lie, cheat and scheme their way across the North of England. And towards the terrible misdeeds - and untold riches - that will one day send Heathcliff home to Wuthering Heights.Read by Everal Walsh. 9 hours 19 minutes.Tolkien, Simon. No man's land. 2016. Historical fiction. TB700391.Adam Raine's impoverished childhood in the slums of Islington is brought to an end by a tragedy that sends him north to Scarsdale, a hard-living coalmining town where his father finds work as a union organizer. But it isn't long before the escalating tensions between the miners and their employer, Sir John Scarsdale, explode with terrible consequences. In the aftermath, Adam meets Miriam, the Rector's beautiful daughter, and moves into Scarsdale Hall, an opulent paradise compared with the life he has been used to before. But he makes an enemy of Sir John's son, Brice, who subjects him to endless petty cruelties for daring to step above his station. When love and an Oxford education beckon, Adam feels that his life is finally starting to come together - until the outbreak of war threatens to tear everything apart.Read by Steven Crossley. 23 hours15 minutes.van der Vlugt, Simone. Midnight blue. 2017. Historical fiction. TB701895.Amsterdam 1654: a dangerous secret threatens to destroy a young widow's new life. Following the sudden death of her husband, twenty-five year old Catrin takes a job as housekeeper to the successful Van Nulandt merchant family. When a figure from her past threatens her new life, Catrin flees to Delft. There, her painting talent earns her a chance as a pottery painter. Slowly, the workshop begins to develop a new type of pottery to rival the coveted Chinese porcelain - and Delft Blue is born. But when tragedy strikes, Catrin has a hard choice to make.Read by Imogen Church. 8 hours 49 minutes.Waugh, Daisy. Honeyville. 2014. Historical fiction. TB700398.A hooker. A mistress. A murder. This town was built on sin. The town of Trinidad, Colorado was a tough place to be a woman in 1913. But it was the best place in the West to find one, if you had the cash. Honeyville, they used to call it. A murder throws Inez and Dora together - two women from opposite sides of town, in a town built for men. Against all odds, the well born girl and the high class hooker are drawn together in friendship. But this is a town that is rotten to the core, and beyond the rustling of silk skirts, the dancing and laughter, deadly unrest is building.Read by Gabrielle Glaister. 11 hours 29 minutes.Historical crimeFinlay, Mick. Arrowood. 2017. Historical crime. TB700105.The year is 1895. London Society takes their problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else goes to Arrowood. London is a place where the wealthy party while the underclass are tempted into lives of crime, drugs and prostitution. Politicians are embroiled in financial and sexual scandals. A serial killer stalks the streets.Read by Malk Williams. 9 hours 30 minutes.MacBird, Bonnie. Art in the blood: 2016. Historical crime. TB700485.Sherlock Holmes adventure: book 1. London, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing after a disastrous Ripper investigation, until a strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris . Mlle La Victoire, a beautiful French cabaret star writes that her illegitimate son by an English lord has disappeared, and she has been attacked in the streets of Montmartre. Racing to Paris with Watson at his side, Holmes discovers the missing child is only the tip of the iceberg of a much larger problem.Read by Thomas Judd. 6 hours 27 minutes.MacBird, Bonnie. Unquiet spirits: whisky, ghosts, murder. 2017. Historical crime. TB701958. Sherlock Holmes adventure: book 2. December 1889. A beautiful client arrives with a tale of ghosts, kidnapping and dynamite on a whisky estate in Scotland, but brother Mycroft trumps all with an urgent assignment for Sherlock Holmes in the South of France. On the Riviera, Holmes and Watson encounter treachery, explosions, rival French Detective Jean Vidocq. and a terrible discovery. This propels the duo northward to the snowy highlands. There, in a "haunted" castle, they and their young client face mortal danger, and Holmes realizes all three cases have blended into a single, deadly conundrum.Read by Simon Darwen. 10 hours 59 minutes.McGee, James. The reckoning. 2017. Historical crime. TB702067.Matthew Hawkwood: book 6. London, 1813 hours Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood is summoned to a burial ground and finds the corpse of a young woman, murdered and cast into an open grave. When Chief Magistrate James Read receives a direct order from the Home Office to abandon the case, Hawkwood's interest is piqued. His hunt for the killer will lead him into the heart of a government determined to protect its secrets at all costs.Read by David Timson. 13 hours 42 minutes.Sanderson, Mark. Snow Hill. 2010. Historical crime. TB700370."Friday, 18 December, 1936. I went to my funeral this morning. “So begins the diary of Johnny Steadman, an ambitious reporter on London's Fleet Street. When he gets a tip-off about a Snow Hill policeman's death he thinks he's found the scoop that will make his career. Trouble is, no-one at the station seems to know anything about it . or they're not telling. His investigation drags him deep into a web of corruption that reaches further than he could ever have imagined. But to bring them to justice he must first go undercover. Six feet undercover. After all, a dead man cannot be tried for murder.Read by Jonathan Keeble. 7 hours 34 minutes.Taylor, Andrew. The silent boy. 2014. Historical crime. TB700153.Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country leased by a group of émigré refugees. When Savill arrives at Charnwood to retrieve the boy he discovers that Charles is mute. What terrible secret haunts him so deeply that he is unable to utter a word?Read by Leon Williams. 12 hours 49 minutes.Taylor, Andrew. The ashes of London. 2016. Historical crime. TB700152.James Marwood: book 1. London,1666. The Great Fire rages through the city. In the aftermath of the fire, the body of a man is discovered in the ashes of St. Paul’s with a stab wound to his neck. Acting on orders, James Marwood, a reluctant government informer, hunts the killer through London’s devastated streets. Before too long a second murder is uncovered. At a time of dangerous internal dissent, Marwood’s investigation will lead him into treacherous waters and across the path of a determined and vengeful young woman.Read by Leighton Pugh. 13 hours 2 minutes.Taylor, Andrew. The Fire Court. 2018. Historical crime. TB702966.James Marwood: book 2. The Great Fire has ravaged London, wreaking destruction and devastation wherever its flames spread. Now, guided by the incorruptible Fire Court, the city is slowly rebuilding, but times are volatile and danger is only ever a heartbeat away. James Marwood, son of a traitor, is thrust into this treacherous environment when his ailing father claims to have stumbled upon a murdered woman in the very place where the Fire Court sits. Then his father is run down and killed. Accident? Or another murder? Determined to uncover the truth, Marwood turns to the one person he can trust - Cat Lovett, the daughter of a despised regicide. Marwood has helped her in the past. Now it's her turn to help him. But then comes a third death. and Marwood and Cat are forced to confront a vicious and increasingly desperate killer whose actions threaten the future of the city itself.Read by Leighton Pugh. 12 hours 3 minutes.Historical romanceLaurens, Stephanie. The Designs Of Lord Randolph Cavanaugh. 2018. Historical romance. TB702994.Cavanaugh: book 1. Lord Randolph Cavanaugh is loyal and devoted-but only to family. To the rest of the world he's aloof and untouchable, a respected and driven entrepreneur. When he travels to Buckinghamshire to review a recent investment, he discovers a passionate woman who will challenge his ruthless self-control. Felicia Throgmorton intends to keep her family afloat. For decades, her father was consumed by his inventions and now, months after his death, with their finances in ruins, her brother insists on continuing their father's tinkering. Felicia is desperate to hold together what's left of the estate. Then she discovers she must help persuade their latest investor that her father's follies are a risk worth taking.Read by Justin Hill. 10 hours 40 minutes.O'Brien, Anne. The Queen's Choice. 2016. Historical romance. TB700194.France, 1399 hours The Duke of Brittany is dead and his widow, Joanna of Navarre, has inherited control of their land, a testament to her intellect, integrity and political prowess. Then comes an unprecedented proposal from Henry IV, King of England. The price of becoming his Queen involves abandoning her homeland, leaving her children and sacrificing her independence. And facing the constant threat of rebellion, Henry will trust no-one, not even his new Queen.Read by Helen Longworth. 15 hours 16 minutes. ................
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