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Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend
Author: Dan Jones
Author Dan Jones
Narrator The Author
Duration 4h 32m
Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate. Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles (ex...
View BookQueer Villains of Myth and Legend
Author: Dan Jones
Author Dan Jones
Narrator
Duration 4h 53m
Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate. Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles (ex...
View BookAuthor: History Hit , Dan Snow
Author History Hit , Dan Snow
Narrator The Author, Tristan Hughes
Duration 9h 34m
From battlefields, cathedrals and museums to castles and stately homes, from the Lancastrians and Yorkists to the Roundheads, Royalists and an abundance of kings called Edward (and Henry!), the history of our island nation unravels its rich tapestry beneath our very feet - if only you know where to look. Take, for instance, the Tower of London, whi...
View BookAuthor: Kim Ghattas
Author Kim Ghattas
Narrator Nan McNamara
Duration 16h 33m
For decades, the question has haunted the Arab and Muslim world. Was it always so? When did the extremism, intolerance and bloodletting of today displace the region's cultural promise and diversity? In Black Wave, award-winning journalist and author Kim Ghattas argues that the turning point in the modern history of the Middle East can be located in...
View BookAuthor: Tom Phillips
Author Tom Phillips
Narrator Nish Kumar
Duration 6h 27m
In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're real winners. But, frankly, it's not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we've managed to really, truly, quite unbelievably f--k things up. From Chairm...
View BookAuthor: Al Murray
Author Al Murray
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 21m
Al Murray's passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has always run parallel with his comedy and was brought to the fore with several acclaimed and award-winning television shows and the recent huge success of his podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk which he hosts with fellow bestselling military author James Holland....
View BookAuthor: Victor Sebestyen
Author Victor Sebestyen
Narrator Elinor Coleman
Duration 16h 6m
Throughout history, the centre of gravity in Budapest and among Hungarians has shifted between this division of East and West—culturally, politically, emotionally. Invaders have come and gone, empires have conquered, occupied for centuries or decades, and left a few footprints behind: the remains of a Roman bath house complete with wonderfull...
View BookAuthor: Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Author Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Narrator Louise Amos
Duration 51m
Uncover the true story of an Egyptian king, and the 20th century explorer who found him. Ideal for readers aged 7+ Discover the troubles Tutankhamun faced as a young king, his untimely death, and his legacy, which lay hidden for centuries. Pore over his treasures, learn the steps of mummification, and see Tutankhamun's fascinating story bought to l...
View BookAuthor: Nino Strachey
Author Nino Strachey
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 48m
Surprisingly little has been written about second-generation Bloomsbury who tantalised the original 'Bloomsburies' at Gordon Square parties with their captivating looks and provocative ideas. Young Bloomsbury introduces us to an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters, including novelist and music critic Eddy Sackville-West, 'who wore elaborat...
View BookAuthor: Irene Vallejo
Author Irene Vallejo
Narrator Sophie Roberts
Duration 17h 29m
An enthralling 6,000-year journey through the history of books and reading Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and Pharaohs were so determined to possess them that they dispatched emissaries to the edges of the earth to bring them back. In Papyrus,...
View BookAuthor: John Masters
Author John Masters
Narrator Roger Davis
Duration 14h 13m
The second part of the best-selling novelist's dramatic autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the Second World War. This is the second part of John Masters's autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a best-...
View BookAuthor: John Masters
Author John Masters
Narrator Roger Davis
Duration 12h 14m
The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII. John Masters was a soldier before he became a best-selling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of 18 and was commissioned into the Fourth Gurkha Rifles in time to take part in some of the last campaigns on the turbulent North-West Fron...
View BookAuthor: Valentine Low
Author Valentine Low
Narrator The Author
Duration 10h 6m
The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins his reign, what will happen next? Throughout history, the British monarchy has relied on its cou...
View BookAuthor: Antony Beevor
Author Antony Beevor
Narrator Rob Heaps
Duration 22h 7m
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded...
View BookAuthor: Noah Angell
Author Noah Angell
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 55m
When artist and writer Noah Angell first heard murmurs of ghostly sightings at the British Museum he had to find out more. What started as a trickle soon became a deluge as staff old and new - from overnight security to respected curators - brought him testimonies of their supernatural encounters. It became clear that the source of the disturbances...
View BookAuthor: Damian Le Bas
Author Damian Le Bas
Narrator The Authors
Duration 8h 20m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Stopping Places, written and read by Damian Le Bas.*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*'I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. It was the road where I might at last find out where I belonged.'Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmother would t...
View BookAuthor: Primo Levi
Author Primo Levi
Narrator Henry Goodman
Duration 16h 24m
'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the m...
View BookAuthor: Clare Balding
Author Clare Balding
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 12m
100 of the most heroic, inspirational and sometimes hilarious animals from history, brought to life by national treasure Clare Balding. Bobbie the Wonder dog crossed more than 2,500 miles of plains, desert and mountains to find his way home .Cher Ami the pigeon delivered a message that saved the lives of 194 soldiers in 1918.Trakr the police dog sp...
View BookAuthor: Amitav Ghosh
Author Amitav Ghosh
Narrator Sam Dastor
Duration 10h 7m
An enthralling, panoramic history of the influence of colonialism on the world today, told through the surprising story of the nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery o...
View BookAuthor: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Author Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Narrator The Author
Duration 14h 25m
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the legend tells us. But the real-life story of the h...
View BookAuthor: Mark Adkin
Author Mark Adkin
Narrator Roger Davis
Duration 12h 52m
Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflict. The most in-depth and powerful account yet published of the first crucial clash of the Falklands war—told from both sides. Goose Green was the first land battle of the Falklands War. It was also the longest, the hardest-fought, the most controversial and the most important to win. W...
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