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The Moneylenders of Shahpur by Helen Forrester

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550514 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550514] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moneylenders of Shahpur Author: Helen Forrester Narrator: Ajayta Rai Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Timeless romance from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction continues to move readers. Anasuyabehn was brought up to obey her father in all things. She didn’t question this until she set eyes on Tilak, the brilliant new professor at Shahpur University. Promised to Mahadev, a wealthy moneylender, Anasuyabehn is not free to pursue Tilak — a man from a different culture who shocks her community with his unfamiliar, modern ideas. Torn between a passionate love for Tilak and her deep religious beliefs pushing her towards Mahadev, Anasuyabehn only wants to follow her heart. What she does not realise is that she is not the only one with a stake in this — and neither of the two men will give up easily.

Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556442 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556442] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tokyo Express Author: Seicho Matsumoto Narrator: Eleanor Matsuura Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide. But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Jutaro, an old and shabby detective, and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they will begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime... A coiled mystery in the vein of Georges Simenon, Tokyo Express is Seicho Matsumoto's bestselling masterwork. © Seicho Matsumoto 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

The Great Book of King Arthur: and His Knights of the Round Table by John Matthews

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558973 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558973] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Book of King Arthur: and His Knights of the Round Table Author: John Matthews Narrator: Jot Davies, Gareth Armstrong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Foreword by Neil Gaiman The world’s leading Arthurian authority reimagines one of the most beloved and influential legends—the story of King Arthur and his Knights—for a new century. The stories of King Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot and Guinevere, Galahad, Gawain, Tristan and the rest of the Knights of the Roundtable, and the search for the Holy Grail have been beloved for centuries and are the inspiration of many modern fantasy novels, films, and shows. These legends began when an obscure Celtic hero named Arthur stepped on to the stage of history sometime in the sixth century, generating a host of oral tales that would be inscribed some 900 years later by Thomas Malory in his classic Morte D’Arthur (The Death of Arthur). The Great Book of King Arthur brings these legends into the modern age, using accessible prose for contemporary readers for the first time. In addition to the stories in Morte D’Arthur, John Matthews includes many tales of Arthur and his knights either unknown to Malory or written in other languages, such as the story of Avenable, the girl brought up as a boy who becomes a famous knight; Morien, whose adventures are as fantastic and exciting as any found in Malory’s work; and a retelling of the life of Round Table favorite Gawain, from his strange birth to his upbringing among the poor to his ascension to the highest position—Emperor of Rome. In addition, there are some of the earliest tales of Arthur, deriving from the tradition of Celtic storytelling. The epic hero is represented in such powerful stories as “The Adventures of Eagle-boy” and “The Coming of Merlin,” which is based on the early medieval text Vita Merlini and tells a completely new version of the great enchanter’s story.

The Wall: The pulse-pounding epic about the end times of an empire by Douglas Jackson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550261 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550261] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wall: The pulse-pounding epic about the end times of an empire Author: Douglas Jackson Narrator: Matt Bates Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. AD 400. Rome and its Empire are failing . . . Veteran cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor sets out with his regiment to make what may be his final tour of the forts along Hadrian's Wall. Through a combination of military prowess, brutality and bribery, Marcus has spent twenty years keeping the savage Picts at bay. Feared by his enemies and hated by his superiors, his strength of will is the only thing that has held the disgruntled, poorly paid garrisons of the Wall in place as the failing Roman Empire's grip on Britannia weakened. Yet as this tour of the wall progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that this is more than a routine inspection. Why is Marcus stripping the defences of cavalry to strengthen his own force? Is he negotiating with the Picts - or conspiring with them? And who is the mysterious figure who follows Marcus' every move and yet hides in the shadows? Segeduno, Cilurno, Brocolitia, Vindolanda: each fort holds memories and friendships, hides rivals, or conceals enemies. But what exactly is Marcus Flavius Victor's ultimate objective? It would appear he is willing to risk bloody civil war in a bid to seize Britannia for himself? Or is he raising an army to save the province from the darkness that waits on the other side of the Wall? Hailed as one of our very best historical novelists, Douglas Jackson returns to the world of ancient Rome with this epic novel of a failing empire and a world on the brink... © Douglas Jackson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Conference at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553368 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553368] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conference at Cold Comfort Farm Author: Stella Gibbons Narrator: Emma Handy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 7, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled 'Quiete Retreate' and 'Greate laundrie'. It is, Flora winces, 'exactly like being locked in the Victoria and Albert Museum after closing time'. Worse, the farm is hosting a conference of the pretentious International Thinkers Group - a group made up of the 'sadistic owl' Mr Peccavi, loathsome Mr Mybug and the overpowering Mrs Ernestine Thump. And worst of all, there are no Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm. All the he-cousins have gone abroad to make their fortunes and the female cousins are having a pretty thin time of it. Once again the sensible Flora decides to take the situation in hand. © Stella Gibbons 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2022