Historical

In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice....

A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword.... 

Anne Lister was remarkable. Fearless, charismatic and determined to explore her lesbian sexuality, she forged her own path in a society that had no language to define her.... 

A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander transformed Macedon from a weak kingdom into a globe-spanning empire....

The formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious position of the island on the edge of the known world....

There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over 40 new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography, to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors.... 

Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman....

One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime comes from the diary of a 13-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank.... 

The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack....

This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar....

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....

A journey through London's criminal underworld with the infamous Kray twins....

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi....

Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions....

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Double Crossed by Brian Wood....

Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time....

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time....

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science....

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....

Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958....

The lasting reputation of George V is for dullness. He was a crack shot and an outstanding stamp collector, but that's about it....

Lancater and York is a riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from the beloved and best-selling historian Alison Weir....

Tom Crean was the farmer’s son from Kerry who sailed on three major expeditions to the unknown Antarctic over a century ago. He served with both Captain Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton, spent longer on the ice than either and outlived them both....

Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives....

Mary Boleyn was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife....

Little is known about the Moghuls in the book of history. Nevertheless, their impact on the world system and their great feat is not something that can be swept under the carpet. The Moghuls dynasty were the rulers of most of Northern India from the early 16th to the mid-18th century. Prominent among the Moghul rulers were the founder, Bābur, who ruled between 1526-30, followed by his grandson Akbar (r. 1556-1605). As far as Akbar's life history was concerned, his forefathers came from three separate non-Indian ethnic groups.

Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson’s moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about Christianity. In this book, Thomas S. Kidd tells the story of Jefferson’s ethical life through the lens of these tensions.

Accounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the British public stood together against Fascism. However, the war looks very different when seen through the eyes of the 60,000 conscientious objectors who refused to take up arms and whose stories, unlike those of the First World War, have been almost entirely forgotten.

This is not a fairy tale, nor a love story, but bound into the truths of everyday deeds, in a world that doesn't exist today. Once upon a time, near a century younger, lives so fresh, every experience cherished by a thought and a nation on the brink. From the honesty of memory, we live for the moment, because our next might be our last in a war to end all wars. Hear from the lips of those that lived, those that felt, those that dreamed, and those that didn't make it. This is their story, told from a small city called Perth.

A series of autobiographical short stories where the author recalls his university days studying law at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand, staying at the Selwyn College hostel, and a student flat on Castle Street, plus working as security at the Sweetwaters Music Festival at Pukekawa.

Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was also highly intelligent, reading widely and writing poetry. Of Nancy's many affairs the five included in this audiobook are the ones with the American poet Ezra Pound, the novelists Aldous Huxley and Michael Arlen (who characterised her as Iris Storm in his best-selling novel The Green Hat), Louis Aragon (the real founder of the Surrealist movement) and finally and controversially the black American pianist Henry Crowder, with whom she ran her printing press in Paris.

In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fuelled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England. But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a rundown manor house in Kent would test her to the limit. 

"The Earp Brothers" weaves the lives of the Earp brothers into one entertaining and educational narrative. It explains the origins of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the controversial details that continue to be debated today. Of all the colorful characters that inhabited the West during the 19th century, the most famous of them all is Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), who has long been regarded as the embodiment of the Wild West.

In 1920, at the age of eight, Moisye Kaptzan spent months hiding in squalid pigsties and opium dens after Bolsheviks murdered his father and hunted his surviving family members. Three years later, when the Great Yokohama earthquake flattened that city, Moisye was buried under rubble. Trapped in Shanghai as a young man during WWII, he outwitted Japanese occupiers while assisting Jewish refugees running from Hitler. Undaunted by disasters, Moisye Kaptzan relied on his keen understanding of human nature and fluency in multiple languages to thrive throughout these tumultuous times.

This authoritative new history of place and people lays out the dramatic events that created the North—waves of migration, invasions and battles, and transformative changes wrought on European culture and the global economy. In a sweeping narrative that takes us from the earliest times to the present day, the book shows that the people of the North have shaped Britain and the world in unexpected ways.

One of these is the honorable Lady Mary, mother of Jesus (peace be upon him). She is the only woman mentioned in the Holy Quran by name. This audiobook sheds light on the miraculous birth, upbringing, and chaste life of Mary. It tells us how she became the most revered, loved, and fascinated woman in the world. The other lady is Lady Asiyah, wife of Pharaoh during the time of Moses. She is only the second woman ever mentioned in the Holy Quran. She became the symbol of resistance against tyranny and oppression as she stood against the most powerful emperor of that time.

The story of two Revolutionary-era teenagers who defy their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold, and are forever changed

History has recorded the names of many outstanding women of different ages and countries. Some gained fame for their remarkable beauty or occupation of a throne. The book Hazrat Ayesha Siddiqa is written by Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Shams, who portrays the life of Ayesha before and after the death of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). She represented greatness in all its aspects. Ayesha performed glorious deeds in religious, social, political, educational, and literary fields, righteousness, excellence of character, and strict observance of religious obligations.

Mary, Queen of Scots’ marriage to the Earl of Bothwell is notorious. Less known is Bothwell’s first wife, Jean Gordon, who extricated herself from their marriage and survived the intrigue of the queen’s court. Daughters of the North reframes this turbulent period in history by focusing on Jean, who became Countess of Sutherland, following her from her birth as the daughter of the ‘King of the North’ to her disastrous union with the notorious Earl of Bothwell—and her lasting legacy to the Earldom of Sutherland.

It is clear that all the miracles were extraordinary and God gifted to Ibrahim (Abraham) and Yousuf (Joseph). It was the special integrity that they succeeded by such tremendous miracles. If we think for a while, it was not easy for Abraham to jump into the fire, but it needs tremendous devotion. God examines Abraham and Joseph in numerous ways. They became successful every moment. The Lord said to Abraham, “I will make you the leader of the people.”