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That's a very kind offer Anima and I would otherwise gladly accept, though I'm only after audiobooks to listen to while driving as I usually go to the library for real books.

Thanks for the suggestions guys! I'll have a play about with those websites tonight.


Cheers,
Mark
 
No worries. The offer stands for anyone else who would appreciate these books.
I have complete collections of Simon scarrow, Bernard Cornwell, Ben Kane, Harry sidebottom etc etc (probably 50+ in total) mix of hard and soft backed. They're wasted in the loft so for p&p costs they're free to a good home.

Edit. Just had a look.
Seth Hunter
David Gemmel
Sean Thomas Russell
Conn Iggulden
Anthony Riches
 
Patrick O'Brian. I enjoyed the " Hornblower " stories, but O'Brian's series of 18 Jack Aubry tales is to Hornblower as a Holtey is to a Stanley Handyman! O'Brian is every bit as technically and historically accurate as Forrester, but also manages to be, at times, laugh-out-loud funny (a crew of 200-300 men can't exist without someone taking the peas, playing pranks. or just being bloody daft!). I don't think that any other writer can evoke the feeling of the Navy during the Napoleonic War as well as O'Brian. I've read every book in the series 4 or 5 times, and soon I shall start the series again, because it's a such a good read! HTH
 
Mark at al

If you like the Roman period, try Lindsey Davis' 'Falco' novels. Great fun with detection and history. They occasionally appear on Radio 4plus as well.

Phil
 
When my wife was on maternity leave, as she had no free hands but a lot time sitting looking/feeding/cuddling the little one, she used to rent audio books from a couple of companies. They were like netflix or lovefilm but for audiobooks. I seem to remember for about £10/month you could have 5 discs at once and just pop them back in the post to get the next ones. The Royal Mail are the only flaw in the plan!

H.
 
Try Clive Cussler , his series of novels are cracking apart from one , my favourite are "dirk Pitt adventures " , "Numa Files " and " Oregon Files " , must have atleast 25 of his books .

Dirk Pitt ------ History adventure , baddies etc

Numa Files -----Archaeology adventure , baddies etc

Orogon Files --- War , blowing stuff up , dictators , war lords , terrorism

All in all ,once you start readin them you will be trawling all the book shops and charity shops ...........just stay away from the "issacc Bell adventures " unless you want to feel like stabbing your self in the eyes with a biro !!!!

Kind regards Sam
 
Limey Lurker":2704k9s7 said:
Patrick O'Brian. I enjoyed the " Hornblower " stories, but O'Brian's series of 18 Jack Aubry tales is to Hornblower as a Holtey is to a Stanley Handyman! O'Brian is every bit as technically and historically accurate as Forrester, but also manages to be, at times, laugh-out-loud funny (a crew of 200-300 men can't exist without someone taking the peas, playing pranks. or just being bloody daft!). I don't think that any other writer can evoke the feeling of the Navy during the Napoleonic War as well as O'Brian. I've read every book in the series 4 or 5 times, and soon I shall start the series again, because it's a such a good read! HTH

There may be two you haven't read if you think there's 18...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%E2% ... rin_series

BugBear
 
If it's audio books you want, there is a completely free option for some of the out of copyright works that you might have downloaded from Project Gutenberg or the Internet Archive. It's called Librivox and is a volunteer-run project. Quality (and accent) depends on who volunteered for each book, so what's good for one user may be less so for another, but the price is right and anyone who thinks they can do better can always contribute!

It's at http://librivox.org/
 

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