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The Grave Tattoo written by Val McDermid performed by Dervla Kirwan and Rupert Penry-Jones on Audio CD (Abridged)

The Grave Tattoo written by Val McDermid performed by Dervla Kirwan and Rupert Penry-Jones on Audio CD (Abridged)£19.99

The award-winning and Number One bestselling Val McDermid crafts an electrifying psychological suspense thriller that mixes history, heritage and heinous crimes. A 200 year-old-secret is now a matter of life and death. And it could be worth a fortune. It's summer in the Lake District and heavy rain over the fells...

The Secret River written by Kate Grenville performed by Rupert Penry-Jones on CD (Abridged)

The Secret River written by Kate Grenville performed by Rupert Penry-Jones on CD (Abridged)
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ISBN:  9781405502634
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Modern
Duration:  360 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Kate Grenville
Performer 1:  Rupert Penry-Jones

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This story is set in London, 1807. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South...

Wales for the term of his natural life. The Thornhills arrive in this harsh and alien land that they cannot understand and which feels like a death sentence. But, among the convicts there is a rumour that freedom can be bought, that 'unclaimed' land up the Hawkesbury offers an opportunity to start afresh, far away from the township of Sydney.

When William takes a hundred acres for himself, he is shocked to find Aboriginal people already living on the river. And other recent arrivals - Thomas Blackwood, Smasher Sullivan and Mrs. Herring - are finding their own ways to respond to them.

Soon Thornhill, a man neither better nor worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life...

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