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When the call came it seemed like the answer to my prayers. My career as a voice actor had been over for months and me and my little girl Scarlet were living back at my mum’s place. I felt like a failure professionally—and with Scarlet having problems at school, as a parent as well. So, when I was asked to narrate a new book by disappeared novelist Philippa Roberts I jumped at the chance, even if it meant leaving Scarlet with my ex, Hugo, for a few weeks. Hugo, with his perfect new home and his perfect new girlfriend Saskia. But this isn’t a dream come true. It’s a nightmare.
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Love but it's a production issue!
- By Mary on 09-02-22
By: K. L. Slater
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The Jane Austen Collection
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- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Claire Foy, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Billie Piper, and others
- Length: 45 hrs
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Renowned as much for her wit and satirical social commentary as for her stories of love and romance, Jane Austen remains unfailingly relevant and one of Britain’s best loved authors. In this Audible Original collection, an all-star list of narrators (Billie Piper, Claire Foy, Emma Thompson, Florence Pugh and Gugu Mbatha-Raw) capture Austen’s pin-sharp humour and tone in these dramatisations of her six beloved novels accompanied by a full cast.
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Not a faithful rendition
- By Anne McClain on 12-13-20
By: Jane Austen
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Treasure Island
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- By: Robert Louis Stevenson, Marty Ross - adaptation
- Narrated by: Philip Glenister, Daniel Mays, Catherine Tate, and others
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Audible Originals takes to the high seas to bring to life this timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps and mutiny. When weathered old sailor Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins' parents, it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. When Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island in his sea chest, where X marks the spot of a stash of buried pirate gold.
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A reflective adventure
- By Tad Davis on 09-12-17
By: Robert Louis Stevenson, and others
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An overlooked gem
I'm surprised that there aren't more reviews. I'm a fan of Anthony Burgess and more importantly, Christopher Marlowe, heretofore to be called Kit, as those who knew him did.
His life, his poems and plays, his work as a spy and his assassination nearly lost to the annals of history in favour of his contemporaries. Thankfully, Burgess uses historical record , previous biographies plus his muse to flesh out a man who lived and loved (the love that dare not speak its name) hard and was brave (or foolish) enough to question the church, state and the Machiavellian machinations of royalists, loyalists, Catholics, protestants and God himself. His work as a spy was somewhat reluctant and his attempts to untangle himself led to his death
We get insight into his interactions with the various nobles, members of the Privy Council, fellow spies, fellow writers, including Shakespeare, privateers and even Sir Walter Raleigh who introduced him to the "nymph" tobacco. This becomes a fine historical romp through the Elizabethan era that shines an ugly light on the dark (is there any other) side of religion and politics that still seems to permeate the modern world.
As the 30th of May marks the 425 anniversary of his murder, it is more the reason to read it
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