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One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike ( Gone Girl). In her bright and energetic performance of this British classic, she expertly captures Austen’s signature wit and tone. Her attention to detail, her literary background, and her performance in the 2005 feature film version of the novel provide the perfect foundation from which to convey the story of Elizabeth Bennet, her four sisters, and the inimitable Mr. Darcy.

When the luxurious overnight passenger train from Calais to the Riviera, known as the Blue Train, arrives in Nice, a guard goes into the compartment of American heiress, Ruth Kettering and attempts to wake her. Unfortunately, she will never wake up, as she is dead, having been killed by a heavy blow to her head, disfiguring her almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious ruby, known as the 'Heart of Fire', is missing. The prime suspect is Ruth’s estranged husband, but detective Hercule Poirot, who also just happens to be a passenger on the train, is not convinced.

In this Audible Exclusive production, Academy Award® nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) narrates one of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Sense and Sensibility. In this timeless tale of misguided romance and heartbreak, two teenage heroines must overcome the pitfalls of Georgian England’s high society in order to achieve the love and happiness they seek. The admiration that Pike has for Austen’s work is shown clearly through this passionate delivery of Austen’s first published novel.

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.

The sixth novel in Julia Quinn's globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. Welcome to Francesca's story... In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one...

This hugely engaging story of murder, superstition, religious politics and drama in a medieval monastery was one of the most striking novels to appear in the 1980s. The Name of the Rose is a thrilling story enriched with period detail and laced with tongue-in-cheek allusions to fictional characters, the most striking of which is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, who displays many characteristics of Sherlock Holmes.

Maria wächst im Waisenhaus auf und wird im Jahre 1933 von einer Bauernfamilie adoptiert, allein aus dem Grunde, neben den zwei Söhnen, als billige Arbeitskraft zu dienen. Mit siebzehn begegnet sie Jakob. Nur ein Jahr währt ihre Liebe, als er und seine jüdische Familie eines Nachts deportiert...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In snow-covered Helsinki, rational-minded Elina begins hearing a haunting lullaby that feels less like imagination and more like memory. Then she meets Luca, a cellist whose unfinished melody matches the music already living inside her. As dreams of...

A scarred spy, a daring debutante, and a love too dangerous to resist. Ezra Ashworth, Lord St. George, never intended to return to London's glittering society. Scarred in body and soul from his years abroad serving the Crown, he has no desire to fulfill his duty as Earl—or to take a wife...

New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath is back with a brand-new, fake dating historical romance about what happens when love, temptation, and murder collide… Wrongly convicted of murdering her husband, Desdemona Bailey is locked up and awaiting execution when in the dark of night the...

1916. Bella is working as a Voluntary Aid driving ambulances in England when she gets engaged to Philip, on leave from fighting in France. His family strongly disapprove of her but the two of them are happy together. Georgie, Philip's sister, is in trouble having broken her engagement and fled from her bullying family. As she wonders who she can turn to for help when she needs it most, she finds herself at the gates of Honeyfield.

Behind the stone walls of Santa Croce delle Pietre, time belongs to God. The bells divide the day. The Rule governs the body. Silence is meant to purify the soul. For fourteen years, Sister Beatrix has survived by becoming exactly what the abbey requires: obedient, watchful, disciplined, untouched. She has learned to bury every hunger before it can be named. Then Sister Ilaria arrives. A widow from the world beyond the cloister, Ilaria is everything Beatrix has trained herself not to be—warm, restless, unguarded, alive.

A brilliant software engineer. A lost 21st-century device. And the fierce Highland blacksmith who holds the key to her survival…When Maeve Vance triggers a glowing temporal rift in the misty hills of Inverness, she only intends to capture the data. But in the blinding emerald explosion, her state-of-the-art smartphone is snatched through the portal—and she is dragged right behind it into the brutal, dangerous winter of 1744. Now, her only lifeline home is lost in a wild land on the brink of a bloody rebellion, rumored to be in the hands of clan chiefs who believe it is a magical artifact.

O escocês Conor McTiernay sonhou a vida inteira com um amor verdadeiro e duradouro. Mas ele sempre se deparou com uma situação oposta... As mulheres sempre o desejavam por causa de suas terras e títulos. Por isso, ele decidiu que nunca iria se casar. Mas isso mudou quando ele viu, pela...

A Christmas Houseguest When a snowstorm stops their mail coach, Rosie offers a fellow passenger sanctuary at her farm. War-weary from the navy, Andy will find his Christmas angel hard to leave... A Naval Surgeon To Fight For As her snobbish aunt’s companion, penniless vicar’s daughter...

Les seize ans frondeurs de Ludivine Peyrissac ne sont pas décidés à baisser pavillon devant qui que ce soit. M. Frédéric Vernet, maître du domaine de Mogador, un " beau parti ", agace la jeune fille avec son air moqueur. Elle a une fortune suffisante pour vivre à sa guise et aucune envie...

A spellbinding sapphic love story filled with wit and queer joy, Emma-Claire Sunday's debut Regency romance will leave you swooning!...

Intrepid amateur sleuth Jane Austen returns in this new novel from the author of Miss Austen Investigates When Jane Austen arrives at Rowling House to visit her wealthy brother, Neddy, she hopes that some time away will distract her from her broken heart and the dashing Tom Lefroy’s lacklustre...

An unlikely friendship between two young women from opposite ends of Fitzroy sparks lifechanging transformations they could never have anticipated. Melbourne, 1945. Born into a well-to-do family, Maggie Johnson wants freedom from her parents' strict conservative beliefs and their unbending...

Two heart-racing World War II stories in one collection. Experience the epic love stories of two officers and the women they fall for, where every stolen moment together counts! A Dance With Her Forbidden Officer Nurse Wendy Smith promised her mother she'd see the world, starting with beautiful...