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Biggles Flies North

By: W. E. Johns
Narrated by: Michael Palin
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Michael Palin reads this classic adventure by W. E. Johns, featuring pilot-adventurer James 'Biggles' Bigglesworth.

When Biggles receives a letter from an old wartime chum asking for help, he responds at once. With his comrades Algy, Ginger and Flight Sergeant Smyth, our hero flies to Fort Beaver in Canada, where winter is closing in around the remote airfield. There he discovers that his buddy Wilks is being menaced by a sinister character called 'Brindle' McBain and his cronies.

Wilks has started a small airline business, but McBain wants to take over, and he'll stop at nothing to get Wilks out of the way. With the threats of sabotage, theft, and even murder in play, all their lives are now in danger.

Can Biggles save the day and defeat McBain? Or will they perish in the frozen north?

Public Domain (P)2018 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd Action & Adventure Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Suspense Thriller & Suspense War & Military Fiction Adventure Aviation Military Mystery

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Micheal Palin is everything you would hope he would be while reading this book! Enjoyed every minute.

Am absolute joy!

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A totally understated British romp. Fantastic! There is nothing quite like the understatement of danger found in this book.

Biggles saves the day with his band of friends.

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Glad it was read in original text. Good short story for short journeys. Pleased

Enjoyed it.

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i think that this is a wonderful book and i thoroughly enjoyed it. as a reader of the series i think it should be unabridged but still a wonderful book. i also think that audible should add more biggles books as many others and i very much enjoy them.

wonderful please add more.

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Michael Palin was an excellent choice to read this - unlike the awful Chirig Patel efforts which have thankfully been removed by Audible (because they were so bad I imagine).

The story is simple enough involving sabotage of a fledgling air freight business in the Far North, and I suspect the story has been edited/ simplified, but an enjoyable two hours nonetheless.

Perhaps commissioners of audiobooks might learn that it is better to respect the author and spirit of the stories rather than to virtue signal for the sake of it in their choice of reader.

How Biggles SHOULD be read.

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Long time Biggles fan. Great stuff from Michael Palin. Fast paced, exciting story. Best listened to in one go.

Biggles

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Enjoyed the book a lot. Although I'm sure I read this in my youth I did not remember it. I enjoyed Michael Palins delivery hugely. The book was quite short leaving me wondering if it had been abridged perhaps. There was lots of action and adventure and it had a wonderfully old fashioned feel to it. It brought back Happy memories of reading under the covers after lights out.

A good biggles adventure

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Can't believe this is the only one, it's perfectly done. We need more ASAP! Well read, not too long, and gripping too

More Biggles please!

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Great book, more Biggles should be made available. . . . . . . .

Brilliant book

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I read some Biggles books as a child but now loved to be able to hear one of the exciting tales as a audio book. Very well presented .

Please release more as I would purchase every one.

Super book which I hope is the start of the Audible series of Biggles

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