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Echoes from the Past

The Brigandshaw Chronicles, Book 1

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Echoes from the Past

By: Peter Rimmer
Narrated by: Alex Bhat
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About this listen

A cocktail of Ken Follett, Wilbur Smith and Jeffrey Archer - this sweeping historical saga will keep you riveted until the final tick.

England, 1887. Seventeen-year-old Sebastian Brigandshaw is cast out by his ruthless father, forced to leave behind everything he knows—including Emily, the girl he was forbidden to love.

Banished to the raw frontier of southern Africa, Sebastian meets Tinus, a weathered Boer hunter who takes him under his wing. As Sebastian begins to rebuild his life in this unforgiving land, he starts to find hope again.

But when a devastating secret about Emily surfaces, Sebastian faces an impossible choice that will pull him back across continents into a reckoning more dangerous than he ever imagined.

The past has claws. And some secrets refuse to stay buried.

Echoes from the Past delivers the epic scope and emotional depth that fans of historical fiction crave—forbidden love, family betrayal, and one man's fight for redemption under an infinite African sky.

Begin this unforgettable journey today.

©2015 Peter Rimmer (P)2022 Heather Stretch Action & Adventure Historical Fiction Fiction Africa War

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I was riveted! I’ve listened to it twice ! And his other books…as clever as!

Brilliant !

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While being a fun story it falls quite well short of Wilbur Smith...and I found the narration a little irritating as there was little definition between chapters

Good Africa story

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This is a story about the Boers and the British at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, an era that I have not read much about. At first the narrator annoyed me but I soon got used to his way of speaking and became engrossed in the book
The big problem is that this is book 1 of the Brigandshaw chronicles so one would expect Audible to have the next book and indeed all the books in the series but frustratingly although the other books exist they are not included in Audible. Why start a series and then leave listeners hanging?

Gripping story line

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If you like Wilbur Smith you will love Peter Rimmer's stories. Written with love and understanding of the African bush and all its Peoples. Hooked into the plot and characters within the first 10 minutes of listening. m narrator needs to work on his Afrikaans accent and pronounciation of Afrikaans names, but that can be easily overlooked by the gripping saga.

A wonderful story of the complexities of Africa

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As I grew up in Rhodesia and lived and worked in South Africa I found this book to be so accurate both in the Fauna and historical descriptions. The Afrikaaners/Boers came to life as I know them so well. The native people were real and creditable. Many authors often lack in their characteristions in SA contexts. This book is a welcome exception. However, the narration was let down by poor pronounciations of place names and Afrikaans words which grated somewhat.

Very accurate storytelling of founding of Rhodesia

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I got lost a couple of times but kept with it to the end. I enjoyed it enough to finish it but not enough to get the next book in the series.

Not bad

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