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Rivals in the Storm
- How Lloyd George seized power, won the war and lost his government
- By: Damian Collins
- Narrated by: Dyfrig Morris
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
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Brought up in rural North Wales, David Lloyd George attended neither a grand school nor ancient university. He was very much an outsider. And yet he rose through the ranks with charisma, fierce intelligence and fighting spirit to become, as Churchill put it in his tribute, a man who ‘stood, when at his zenith, without a rival’. But his rise was not without its hardships.
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Rivals in the Storm
- How Lloyd George seized power, won the war and lost his government
- Narrated by: Dyfrig Morris
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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Unruly
- A History of England's Kings and Queens
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In Unruly, David Mitchell explores how early England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear to us today in their portraits.
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Some smart history amongst all the jokey rants
- By Marcus on 29-09-23
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Unruly
- A History of England's Kings and Queens
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 28-09-23
- Language: English
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Henry VIII: King and Court
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
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This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court - the most spectacular court ever seen in England - and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces. An entertaining narrative packed with colourful description and a wealth of anecdotal evidence, but also a comprehensive analytical study of the development of both monarch and court during a crucial period in English history.
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“England’s Nero”
- By Mary Carnegie on 10-09-18
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Henry VIII: King and Court
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 02-05-17
- Language: English
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The Real Diana
- By: Lady Colin Campbell
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
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Royal insider Lady Colin Campbell sets the record straight on many of the most controversial aspects of Diana's turbulent life. In The Real Diana, she reveals that the reason she knew so much about what went on behind the palace gates was because Diana herself was the source. Drawing upon these confidences - as well as on conversations with countless people who knew Diana and with Diana herself in the final years of her life - Lady Colin Campbell combines true insight with true compassion to bring us the most intimate and revealing portrait of the Princess of Wales.
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So well researched and well documented
- By Consumer East Anglia on 29-03-22
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The Real Diana
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 24-02-22
- Language: English
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Spare
- By: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Narrated by: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last.
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Awful
- By Coco51 on 12-01-23
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Spare
- Narrated by: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 10-01-23
- Language: English
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Late Admissions
- Confessions of a Black Conservative
- By: Glenn Loury
- Narrated by: Glenn Loury
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
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A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race, and belief.
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Late Admissions
- Confessions of a Black Conservative
- Narrated by: Glenn Loury
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 04-06-24
- Language: English
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A Woman Like Me
- A Memoir
- By: Diane Abbott
- Length: Not Yet Known
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June 1987: Diane Abbott makes history as the first elected Black female MP in the UK. Since then, she has survived more than three decades in parliament, campaigning tirelessly for a better future for Britain, from increasing access to education through the Black Child Initiative, to consistently voting in favour of higher disability benefits. With her trademark frankness and humour, her memoir, A Woman Like Me, will celebrate an extraordinary life and encourage a new generation to surpass expectations, just as she has done.
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A Woman Like Me
- A Memoir
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: English
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Diana
- Her True Story - in Her Own Words
- By: Andrew Morton
- Narrated by: Caroline Langrishe, Michael Maloney, Andrew Morton, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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A reissue of this classic title, updated with never-before-published material from the original taped interviews and with a new introduction by Andrew Morton that reflects on the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the original publication of Diana: Her True Story. One of the world's best-known biographers, Andrew Morton's groundbreaking and controversial biography Diana: Her True Story changed the public's perception of the British monarchy and became an instant global best seller.
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UPDATED VERSION - SUCH A FANTASTIC READ
- By customer on 14-08-17
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Diana
- Her True Story - in Her Own Words
- Narrated by: Caroline Langrishe, Michael Maloney, Andrew Morton, Jennie Bond
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 22-06-17
- Language: English
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
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This acclaimed best seller from popular historian Alison Weir is a fascinating look at the Tudor family dynasty and its most infamous ruler. The Six Wives of Henry VIII brings to life England’s oft-married monarch and the six wildly different but equally fascinating women who married him. Gripping from the first sentence to the last and loaded with fascinating details, Weir’s rich history is a perfect blend of scholarship and entertainment.
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Nothing short of excellent
- By mollymoon1 on 31-08-13
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 12-10-12
- Language: English
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Hitler
- A Biography
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in the 20th century.
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Exhaustive, occasionally exhausting...
- By Mark Brandon on 22-02-16
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Hitler
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 13-11-15
- Language: English
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Killing Thatcher
- The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
- By: Rory Carroll
- Narrated by: Gary Trainor
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet – an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the most daring conspiracy against the Crown since the Gunpowder Plot.
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Well balanced and very well researched.
- By M R Colacicco on 14-04-23
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Killing Thatcher
- The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
- Narrated by: Gary Trainor
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-04-23
- Language: English
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LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination
- By: Phillip F. Nelson
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
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The case against Lyndon B. Johnson and his role in Kennedy's assassination has never been sounder. LBJ aims to prove that Vice President Johnson played an active role in the assassination of President Kennedy and that he began planning his takeover of the U.S. presidency even before being named the vice presidential nominee in 1960. Nelson's careful and meticulous research has led him to uncover secrets from one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in our country's history.
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History is slowly giving up its secrets
- By lowryboy on 15-06-17
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LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-02-13
- Language: English
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The Turbulent Crown
- The Story of the Tudor Queens
- By: Roland Hui
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
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Ten remarkable women. One remarkable era. In the Tudor period, 1485 to 1603, a host of fascinating women sat on the English throne. The dramatic events of their lives are told in The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens.
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alas poor queens
- By knitter on 28-03-20
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The Turbulent Crown
- The Story of the Tudor Queens
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 21-08-18
- Language: English
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Adolf Hitler
- By: John Toland
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 44 hrs and 42 mins
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Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates, this is the definitive biography of one of the most despised yet fascinating figures of the 20th century. Painstakingly documented, it is a work that will not soon be forgotten.
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good but...
- By MR H. on 05-06-19
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Adolf Hitler
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 44 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 21-05-14
- Language: English
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket.
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Brilliant Documentary of the Cold War
- By Paul on 03-10-18
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 20-09-18
- Language: English
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A Promised Land
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Dropping a classic
- By jesse on 17-11-20
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A Promised Land
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 17-11-20
- Language: English
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A Very Private School
- By: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Charles Spencer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend a boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt aged eight, describing the pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all.
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Interesting retelling of a terrible experience.
- By Carmel on 13-03-24
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A Very Private School
- Narrated by: Charles Spencer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 12-03-24
- Language: English
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The Fears of Henry IV
- The Life of England's Self-Made King
- By: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
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King Henry IV survived at least eight plots to dethrone or kill him in the first six years of his reign. However, he had not always been so unpopular. In his youth he had been a great chivalric champion and crusader. In 1399, at the age of 32, he was greeted as the saviour of the realm when he ousted from power the tyrannical King Richard II. But Henry had to contend with men who supported him only as long as they could control him; when they failed, they plotted to kill him. Adversaries also tried to take advantage of his questionable right to the crown.
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I learned a lot about two Reigns
- By Kirstine on 27-03-19
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The Fears of Henry IV
- The Life of England's Self-Made King
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 11-10-18
- Language: English
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The Royal Art of Poison
- Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul
- By: Eleanor Herman
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. The Royal Art of Poison is a hugely entertaining work of popular history that traces the use of poison as a political - and cosmetic - tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today.
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A really great book!
- By James Moynihan on 20-06-20
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The Royal Art of Poison
- Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-07-19
- Language: English
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Isabella
- The She-Wolf of France
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
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Here is the first full-length biography of a much maligned but astonishingly colourful Queen of England. In Newgate Street, in the city of London, stand the meagre ruins of Christ Church. On the same site once stood a royal mausoleum set to rival Westminster Abbey in the 14th century. Among the many crowned heads buried there was Isabella of France, Edward II's queen - one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. But how did she acquire her evil reputation? And is it justified?
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Excellent Historical Work
- By Gregory on 18-02-11
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Isabella
- The She-Wolf of France
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 18-01-07
- Language: English
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