Audiobook narrated by Katy Sobey.

Back home in 2017, Sophie and Hugo realise that they love each other and immediately get together when safely back in Hugo's parent house. They don't realise that Freddie has managed to follow them from 1925, and he is devastated to find the love of his life and his best friend sleeping together. With immovable 1925 attitudes about girls staying pure, Freddie is angry and unforgiving. When Sophie and Hugo try to take him back to his own time his thought 'do your worst' are taken up by the sentient lift, and they are dropped into Medieval Europe with Mongol Army on the rampage. Sophie, Freddie and Charlotte have enhanced strength in this world, though Hugo does not. Trying to escape. Sophie and Freddie are dropped (literally) into and impossible situation in which they are sure they will die, and one thing leads to another. Sophie is badly injured, but they managed to access the lift and get back to 2017 where, in hospital, they all learn she's pregnant. Who's the father?

Apparently there's a novella that addresses this problem, but it's not available as an audiobook. Too bad.

Audiobook narrated by Katy Sobey.

Sophie Arundel and her labradoodle, Charlotte, step into a lift on her first day at university in 2017, and stumbles out in 1925. Also in the lift was Hugo, a privileges annoying student she knows from school. 1925 is a different world, literally. It's a different timeline in which the First World War never happened and chaos is turning into revolution. Sophie and Hugo fine refuge at Shorten Manor with Anne, her husband, Richard, and their son, Freddie - very much a product of his upbringing. Anne came through the portal herself, half a lifetime ago, so she's able to help Spohie adjust to the era of servants, propriety and gossip. Can Sophie and Hugo work out how the lift works and find their way home before the lifestyle engulfs them. None of the other half-dozen travellers has ever managed to go home, though it seems that they don't want to. Katy Sobey has a girlish voice, but it works well in this context

Audiobook narrated by Matt Addis.

It's January 1144. Bradecote is about to remarry after the death of his frxt wife. His new lady, Christina, decides to go on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St Eadgyth at Polesworth, in the company of the Archbishop of Canterbury's envoy and his entourage of Benedictine monks. Should be a safe way to travel. right? Unfortunately not. The monks are kidnapped by a dangerous psychopath who wants to exchange them for a forger locked up in the sheriff's prison. Unfortunately the sheriff won't give in to their demands, so Bradecote and Catchpoll have to find the kidnapped monks and rescue Christina before the psychopath does his worst, and preferably before Bradecote cracks under the pressure. Ably read by Matt Addis.

Audiobook read by R.C. Bray.

I didn't get very far with this. It was too militaristic without much characterisation, and violence was the first answer to every problem

Audiobook narrated by Gabrielle Baker.

Did not finish.

On the face of it, this book is the type I'd grab for a bit of light relief, however I didn't get on with the narration. DrawRing room - ugh!

Narrated by Matt Addis.

September 1145. Two small boys discover the corpse of a Templar knight in the Forest of Wyre on Worcestershire’s northern border. The corpse carries a parchment revealing the identity of a traitor. (We’re in the time of the Anarchy, when Stephen and Mathilda are slugging it out for the crown.) Bradecote, Catchpoll and Walkelin are sent to investigate. Because of what the children saw, the locals believe the knight has been killed by the Raven Woman, a mythical bird shapechanger who haunts the forest. William of Riversford denies knowing who the corpse is, but Bradecote doesn’t quite believe him, and his instinct turns out to be correct. The corpse is Ivo de Mitton who fled the country many years ago accused of killing his family and burning down their house, all but the youngest who is now grown and is the last of his family in charge of Mitton. There’s a parchment on the corpse suggesting that a prominent Lord is planning to turn traitor against Stephen. But something is off. The Sheriff’s trio find the investigation throws up more questions than answers, Was there a second knight? Who is the Raven Woman? Did Ivo kill his family all those years ago? The story gives up its answers slowly and effectively as the corpses mount, stretching out the dramatic tension. Matt Addis’s reading is excellent as usual. I’ve been binge listening to these books, but this seems to be the most recent, so apart from a couple I missed along the way, I’ll have to wait for the next one.

Audiobook narrated by Jonathan Keeble.

June 1144. A body found in woodland turns out to be a Welsh messenger on his way to see Earl Robert of Gloucester. Bradecote and Catchpoll are sent into Wales, but the murdered man, though sent on an important errand into England, turns out to be a lecherous menace to any women he sets eyes upon. In the end the answer to the murder lies not in the message, but the messenger himself. Jonathan Keeble reads it well enough, but he’s not as good as Matt Addis who has read all the other Bradecote and Catchpolls that I’ve already heard. I know what the main characters' voices sound like - and in this, they don't. Also it's one of the bland covers. Why change cover style and why change narrator? Seems a bit odd. Don't get me wrong, it's still a good story. 

Audiobook narrated by Matt Addis.

September 1143. Bradecote is the recently appointed under sheriff and Catchpoll is the wily and experienced serjeant-thieftaker. A series of deliberately-set fires in the city of Worcester stirs the population. Bradecote and Catchpoll must find the culprit before the whole city burns, but that means finding the link between the victims. At first that seems impossible. What connects Simeon the Jew with a silversmith, and an old healing woman? For a while all they can do is set a firewatch, at first believing that the property owner is burning out his tenants so he can redevelop the area. Gradually they piece threads together, discovering the motive delves back into the past. Matt Addis reads well and differentiates the voices beautifully. Bradecote speaks English (unlike most of the nobility of the day who still speak Norman French) and the local characters all have Worcestershire accents, which seem perfectly natural for story purposes. Catchpoll, in particular, sounds beautifully grizzled.

Audiobook narrated by Annabelle Tudor.

A historical romance set in 1780 which has a lot more than just romance in it. Greer, MacAlistair an abandoned wife with a deaf daughter, Fen, leaves Edinburgh for the north when she's advised that her husband - an English exciseman - has been killed in the line of duty and therefore she can claim the wages owed to him. Unfortunately, upon making the request she discovers that his 'wife' has already clzimed it, and her own marriage lines count for nothing. She's rescued by Mr Gordon (a widower) and employed as his housekeeper, travelling to Glasglen, a remote highland village where the villagers survive by making illegal whisky and selling it to supplement their meagre agricultural subsistence. Gordon is at the heart of it. The villagers are hostile at first, especially Gordon's family, and Fen is despised for her deafness, until her 'finger-talking' learned in Edinburgh becomes central to the plot as the Excise men close in and Gordon lands in a heap of trouble. It's a long book, but it kept me invoilves and Annabelle Tudor reads it very well. Her Scottish accent rings true (Note I am not a Scot). Listening to samples of other books she's narrated she seems to so a variety of accents very will.

Audiobook narrated by Steven Crossley

The first Oxford Time Travel book is a collection of short stories, the second is Doomsday Book, read and reviewed earlier this month. This is the third which I was persuaded to try because (unlike Doomsday) it’s supposedly light and frothy, and it also won the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1999. And indeed it has elements of Three Men in a Boat meets Dr Who. Ned Henry, one of Oxford’s time-travelling historians, is searching for the Bishop’s Bird Stump, a (fictional) vase lost in the wartime bombing of Coventry Cathedral, in order to please Lady Schrapnell who holds the purse strings of the project to rebuild the cathedral. He’s been sent hither and thither to jumble sales and air-raids that he’s impossibly time-lagged and brain-fogged, so to get him safely out of the way his professor (Dunworthy whom we met in Doomsday Book) sends him back to Oxford 1888 for a relaxing fortnight beside the River Thames. He goes through the veil somewhat precipitously to get away from Lady Schrapnell, ill-prepared and barely taking in his instructions. Thus he makes a mess of his first encounter, fails to do something important and ends up on the river with an Oxford undergrad, Terence St Trewes, and a dotty history professor. Eventually he manages to meet up with his contact (the lovely Verity) and ends up a guest in a country house belonging to a bunch of Lady Schrapnell’s great-great-many-times-great-grands with the beautiful but vapid Tossie who speaks in diddums-diddums baby talk, her goldfish-fancying father and a scarily Schrapnell-like mother, plus the family butler, the Jeeves-like Baine. Thus the romantic comedy is set as Ned and Verity try to put right a variance in the space-time continuum which they accidentally caused in the first place. The Bishop’s Bird Stump is constantly bubbling away in the background as it’s a pivotal object that changes Tossie’s life. The book is light, but not a comedy in the laugh-out-loud sense, more slightly quirky and absurdist. Yes, there’s a dog (Cyril the bulldog) and a goldfish-eating cat (Princess Arjumand). Steven Crossley reads it well in an RP accent, with a good range of voices. You’re never far from hearing Lady Bracknell in a raft of imperious women from the book’s present (2057)  to Victorian England. And, of course, all is well in the end with the bird stump found, and the right lovers paired up, more thanks to time itself than the hapless Ned. Connie Willis captures the Three-Men-in-a-Boat vibe very well