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The Ghosts Of Rome by Joseph O'Connor

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/808116 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/808116] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ghosts Of Rome Author: Joseph O'Connor Narrator: Aoife Duffin, Gertrude Thoma, David John, Barnaby Edwards, Stephen Hogan, Laurence Bouvard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 30, 2025 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome. Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied soldiers, all under the nose of Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann. During a ferocious morning air raid a mysterious parachutist lands in Rome and disappears into the backstreets. Is he an ally or an imposter? His fate will come to put the whole Escape Line at risk. Meanwhile, Hauptmann’s attention has landed on the Contessa. As his fascination grows, she is pulled into a dangerous game with him – one where the consequences could be lethal. © Joseph O'Connor 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

The House with Nine Locks by Philip Gray

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/808117 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/808117] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House with Nine Locks Author: Philip Gray Narrator: Anna Wilson-Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 53 minutes Release date: January 23, 2025 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A master forger transforms a young woman’s life – but what will it cost her? In post-war Flanders, Adelais de Wolf's family is slowly, inexplicably, falling apart: her mother evermore lost to religious devotion, her father to alcohol. But with the death of a beloved uncle, Adelais finds herself in receipt of an unexpected legacy: a shuttered house in a rundown district and its contents – contents that hold the promise of independence and wealth. All that is required is application, nerve, and a willingness to break the law. Adelais stifles her doubts and her fortunes are transformed. But with her rise comes complications: her victimless crimes may not be as victimless as she supposed. Nor has she counted on the singular fanaticism of Major de Smet of the Federal Gendarmerie, a brutal detective who never forgives and never forgets. Caught in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, will Adelais find that her new life comes at too high a price? Cinematic and seductive, The House with Nine Locks is a compelling and sweeping historical novel with characters you won’t soon forget. © Philip Gray 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Frankie: A Novel by Graham Norton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/802186 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/802186] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frankie: A Novel Author: Graham Norton Narrator: Graham Norton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 14, 2025 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: ''Warm and wise, Frankie is a woman worth getting to know.''—Bonnie Garmus, New York Times-bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry From the internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping story about love, bravery, and what it means to live a significant life. Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take center stage—after all, life had already judged her harshly. Now old, Frankie finds it easier to forget the life that came before. Then Damian, a young Irish caretaker, arrives at her London flat, there to keep an eye on her as she recovers from a fall. A memory is sparked, and the past crackles into life as Damian listens to the story Frankie has kept stored away all these years. Traveling from post-war Ireland to 1960s New York—a city full of art, larger-than-life characters and turmoil—Frankie shares a world in which friendship and chance encounters collide. A place where, for a while, life blazes with an intensity that can’t last but will perhaps live on in other ways and in other people.

Voices of the Fallen Heroes: And Other Stories by Yukio Mishima

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809047 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809047] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Voices of the Fallen Heroes: And Other Stories Series: Part of Vintage International Author: Yukio Mishima Narrator: Brian Nishii Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 14, 2025 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: A new selection of Yukio Mishima (author of Spring Snow and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea) short stories from the 1960s—his final decade—Voices of the Fallen Heroes offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of Japan’s greatest writers. In the title story, 'Voices of the Fallen Heroes,' a séance brings forth the spirits of young officers in the Imperial Army and the kamikaze pilots of World War II, who reproach the Emperor and mourn Japan’s modern decline. In another, Mishima recounts the true story of the time a deranged fan broke into his home at dawn, insisting on meeting the author and imploring him to 'tell the truth.' Elsewhere, a beautiful youth achieves eternal life through violent murder, and an ill-matched couple seal their fate with a pack of cards, tangled in the web of time and unfulfilled desire. Available in English for the first time, and carefully selected by a team of expert translators, these captivating stories serve as the perfect introduction to Mishima's work, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Sir Walter Scott: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Five Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations including Waverley and Rob Roy by Walter Scott

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/808337 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/808337] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sir Walter Scott: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Five Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations including Waverley and Rob Roy Author: Walter Scott Narrator: Sean Chapman, John Ransome, George Woolley, Irene Allan, Jill Meers, Liam Brennan, John Buick, Gerda Stevenson, Richard Greenwood, Tom George, Alec Guinness, Brian Hewlett, Full Cast, John Rowe, David Rintoul Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 2, 2025 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Full-cast BBC adaptations of five of Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Waverley’ novels, plus a play adapted from his journal starring Alec Guinness, and a documentary about Scott and his legacy Poet, novelist, critic and campaigner Walter Scott invented the historical novel and shaped the world’s image of Scotland. His tales of heroism, romance and adventure were hugely successful, outselling Jane Austen and Lord Byron, and are still popular today. Included here are adaptations of five of the best-loved books in his ‘Waverley’ series, as well as two bonus programmes. Waverley – Sent to Scotland with his regiment, young English soldier Edward Waverley becomes embroiled in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. Torn between love and duty, he falls in with Bonnie Prince Charlie’s rebel army – and finds himself accused of treason… Richard Greenwood stars in this adaptation of Scott’s groundbreaking debut novel. Rob Roy – Francis Osbaldistone, the son of a rich London merchant, is banished to his family seat in the North. There, he meets the beautiful, high-spirited Diana Vernon and his villainous cousin Rashleigh, and befriends the enigmatic Scot, Robert Campbell – hero, chieftain of the clan MacGregor and wanted outlaw… Starring Liam Brennan, this thrilling drama is set during the Jacobite rising of 1715. The Heart of Midlothian – Edinburgh, 1737, and young Effie Deans is arrested for child murder and sentenced to death. Convinced of her innocence, her sister Jeanie decides to walk to London to plead for her sister’s life. Gerda Stevenson and Irene Allen star in this adaptation of Scott’s gripping novel, widely considered to be the finest of the ‘Waverley’ books. The Bride of Lammermoor – Edgar Ravenswood has sworn vengeance on the Ashton family who have destroyed his honour and ruined his fortune – but Lucy Ashton will come to mean more to him than honour, fortune and life Itself… This tragic tale of a doomed love affair stars David Rintoul and Gerda Stevenson. Woodstock – England, 1651. Charles Stuart’s army has been defeated at Worcester, and he is on the run. Suspecting that he will take refuge at Woodstock Manor, Oliver Cromwell sets a trap for him there – but he has reckoned without the wily King and his loyal Cavalier supporters… John Rowe and Brian Hewlett star in this epic Civil War tale. My Own Right Hand Shall Do It – Suffering a terrible reversal of fortune late in life, Sir Walter Scott determines to recover from financial ruin. Sir Alec Guinness stars in this moving portrait of tragedy and ultimate triumph. The Man Who Made Scotland – James Naughtie makes the case for a reappraisal of Sir Walter Scott, arguing that his branding of Scotland is the mark of a thoroughly modern thinker. NB: Due to the age of the recordings, the sound quality may vary First published 1814 (Waverley), 1817 (Rob Roy), 1818 (The Heart of Midlothian), 1819 (The Bride of Lammermoor), 1826 (Woodstock) © 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd