Try free for 30 days
-
Finding Napoleon
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd, Rupert Degas
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for $39.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also picked
-
I, Mona Lisa
- By: Natasha Solomons
- Narrated by: Amelia Donkor
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For 500 years we've been looking at the Mona Lisa, and it turns out that she's been looking right back at us. Over the centuries, few could hear her voice, but now we are let into the secret, as she tells us her story in her own words - a tale of rivalry, murder and heartbreak. And a mystery of Leonardo's greatest lost painting. Weaving through the years, she takes us from the dazzling world of da Vinci's Florentine studio to the French courts at Fontainebleau and Versailles, and into the 20th century.
-
-
A journey through history with Mona Lisa
- By Anonymous User on 19-12-2022
-
Mr. Emerson's Wife
- By: Amy Belding Brown
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this novel about Ralph Waldo Emerson’s wife, Lidian, Amy Belding Brown examines the emotional landscape of love and marriage. Living in the shadow of one of the most famous men of her time, Lidian becomes deeply disappointed by marriage, but consigned to public silence by social conventions and concern for her family’s reputation. Drawn to the erotic energy and intellect of close family friend Henry David Thoreau, she struggles to negotiate the confusing territory between love and friendship while maintaining her moral authority and inner strength.
-
The Woman at the Front
- By: Lecia Cornwall
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Eleanor Atherton graduates from medical school near the top of her class in 1917, she dreams of going overseas to help the wounded, but her ambition is thwarted at every turn. Eleanor's parents insist she must give up medicine, marry a respectable man, and assume her proper place. While women might serve as ambulance drivers or nurses at the front, they cannot be physicians - that work is too dangerous and frightening. Nevertheless, Eleanor is determined to make more of a contribution than sitting at home knitting for the troops.
-
The Last Debutantes
- A Novel
- By: Georgie Blalock
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Valerie de Vere Cole, the niece of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, makes her deep curtsey to the King and Queen of England, she knows she’s part of a world about to end. The daughter of a debt-ridden father and a neglectful mother, Valerie sees firsthand that war is imminent. Nevertheless, Valerie reinvents herself as a carefree and glittering young society woman, befriending other debutantes from England’s aristocracy as well as the vivacious Eunice Kennedy, daughter of the US Ambassador.
-
The Phantom Tree
- By: Nicola Cornick
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman, Stephanie Racine
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait - identified as the doomed Tudor queen Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as a child. And Alison knows this because she, too, lived at Wolf Hall and knew Mary...more than 400 years ago.
-
Company of Liars
- By: Karen Maitland
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On this day of ill omen, plague makes its entrance. Within weeks, swathes of England will be darkened by death's shadow. While panic and suspicion flood the land, a small band of travelers comes together to outrun the breakdown in law and order. But when one of their number is found hanging from a tree, the chilling discovery confirms that something more sinister than plague is in their midst.
-
-
Great story
- By Dr Jay on 04-08-2021
-
I, Mona Lisa
- By: Natasha Solomons
- Narrated by: Amelia Donkor
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For 500 years we've been looking at the Mona Lisa, and it turns out that she's been looking right back at us. Over the centuries, few could hear her voice, but now we are let into the secret, as she tells us her story in her own words - a tale of rivalry, murder and heartbreak. And a mystery of Leonardo's greatest lost painting. Weaving through the years, she takes us from the dazzling world of da Vinci's Florentine studio to the French courts at Fontainebleau and Versailles, and into the 20th century.
-
-
A journey through history with Mona Lisa
- By Anonymous User on 19-12-2022
-
Mr. Emerson's Wife
- By: Amy Belding Brown
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this novel about Ralph Waldo Emerson’s wife, Lidian, Amy Belding Brown examines the emotional landscape of love and marriage. Living in the shadow of one of the most famous men of her time, Lidian becomes deeply disappointed by marriage, but consigned to public silence by social conventions and concern for her family’s reputation. Drawn to the erotic energy and intellect of close family friend Henry David Thoreau, she struggles to negotiate the confusing territory between love and friendship while maintaining her moral authority and inner strength.
-
The Woman at the Front
- By: Lecia Cornwall
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Eleanor Atherton graduates from medical school near the top of her class in 1917, she dreams of going overseas to help the wounded, but her ambition is thwarted at every turn. Eleanor's parents insist she must give up medicine, marry a respectable man, and assume her proper place. While women might serve as ambulance drivers or nurses at the front, they cannot be physicians - that work is too dangerous and frightening. Nevertheless, Eleanor is determined to make more of a contribution than sitting at home knitting for the troops.
-
The Last Debutantes
- A Novel
- By: Georgie Blalock
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Valerie de Vere Cole, the niece of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, makes her deep curtsey to the King and Queen of England, she knows she’s part of a world about to end. The daughter of a debt-ridden father and a neglectful mother, Valerie sees firsthand that war is imminent. Nevertheless, Valerie reinvents herself as a carefree and glittering young society woman, befriending other debutantes from England’s aristocracy as well as the vivacious Eunice Kennedy, daughter of the US Ambassador.
-
The Phantom Tree
- By: Nicola Cornick
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman, Stephanie Racine
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait - identified as the doomed Tudor queen Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as a child. And Alison knows this because she, too, lived at Wolf Hall and knew Mary...more than 400 years ago.
-
Company of Liars
- By: Karen Maitland
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On this day of ill omen, plague makes its entrance. Within weeks, swathes of England will be darkened by death's shadow. While panic and suspicion flood the land, a small band of travelers comes together to outrun the breakdown in law and order. But when one of their number is found hanging from a tree, the chilling discovery confirms that something more sinister than plague is in their midst.
-
-
Great story
- By Dr Jay on 04-08-2021
-
Spitfire
- The Livy Nash Mystery Series, Book 1
- By: M. L. Huie
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It’s V-E Day 1946 in London. World War II is long over, and former spy Livy Nash is celebrating with her third drink before noon. She went to war to kill Nazis. Dropped behind enemy lines as a courier, she quickly became one of the toughest agents in France. But her war ended with betrayal and the execution of the man she loved. Now, Livy spends her days proofreading a demeaning advice column for little ladies at home, and her nights alone with black market vodka.
-
The Countess of the Revolution
- By: Lana Kortchik
- Narrated by: Dinah Marti
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Russia, 1917. Petrograd is on the eve of revolution. For Countess Sophia Orlova, the city of her childhood—the only home she has ever known—has become her deadly enemy. The mob are ready to get rid of anyone connected to the old regime, including Sophia. When rebels threaten to shoot Sophia and her husband, they are saved by Nikolai, a fervent supporter of the revolution. Determined to help Nikolai’s cause, Sophia sets up a hospital wing in the house, nursing injured victims by his side.
-
The Memory Keeper of Kyiv
- By: Erin Litteken
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In 1929, Katya is 16 years old, surrounded by family and in love with the boy next door. When Stalin’s activists arrive in her village, it’s just a few, a little pressure to join the collective. But soon neighbors disappear, those who speak out are never seen again and every new day is uncertain. Resistance has a price, and as desperate hunger grips the countryside, survival seems more a dream than a possibility. But, even in the darkest times, love beckons. Seventy years later, a young widow discovers her grandmother’s journal.
-
-
Powerful story
- By Anonymous User on 14-08-2023
-
The Girl in His Shadow
- By: Amelia Blake, Audrey Blake
- Narrated by: Susan Lyons
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Rescued from a pandemic’s wreckage and raised by the eccentric surgeon Dr. Horace Croft, orphan Nora Beady cares little for Victorian conventions. While other young ladies busy themselves with needlework and watercolors, Nora perfects her sutures and anatomical illustrations. Women face dire consequences if caught practicing medicine, but in Croft’s private clinic, Nora is his most trusted - and secret - assistant. That is, until the new surgical resident, Dr. Daniel Gibson, arrives.
-
The Great Train Robbery
- By: Michael Crichton
- Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive?
-
-
Tedious
- By Bhavik on 26-07-2022
-
The Forgotten Chapter
- Blaze Collection
- By: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It’s 1943 in London. Paige Miller, an ordinary shopgirl at the fabled department store Selfridges, falls for Danny, an American GI who comes by the books counter at the same time every day. As she slowly lets him into her heart, Paige realizes that Danny is keeping a secret. One that could change the course of the war—and both their lives.
-
The Hungry Tide
- By: Val Wood
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sarah Foster's parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty, disease and crime. When her father, Will, is involved in a terrible accident at work, their lives became even harder. But Will's good deeds of the past pay off as John Rayner decides to rescue the Fosters. John provides them with work and a house on the estate owned by his wealthy family.
-
The Last Thing You Surrender
- By: Leonard Pitts Jr.
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Pulitzer-winning journalist and best-selling author (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s new historical novel is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States. An affluent white marine survives Pearl Harbor at the cost of a black messman's life only to be sent, wracked with guilt, to the Pacific and taken prisoner by the Japanese.
-
Home from the Hill
- A Novel
- By: William Humphrey
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Home from the Hill is the story of that tragic day and the dramatic events leading up to it. The biggest landowner in the county, Captain Wade Hunnicutt was a charismatic war hero whose legendary hunting skills extended to the wives of his friends and neighbors. Humiliated by her husband's philandering, Hannah grew to despise Captain Wade but was too proud to ask for a divorce; instead, she devoted herself to her only child. Torn between his mother's adoration and an overwhelming need to win his father's approval, Theron tried to become his own man.
-
Fires to Come
- Blaze Collection
- By: Asha Lemmie
- Narrated by: Jordan Cobb
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Abandoned as an infant and raised by protective, if secretive, Italian parents, Carlotta has never quite fit in her own life as the only Black person in her neighborhood. Even when she ventures to Harlem, where jazz, community, and a man’s love await her, she doesn’t feel fully at home. But when the dynamics in her adoptive family shift, and her role grows more tenuous, Carlotta has to decide where she belongs—no matter the threats or the price that must be paid.
-
Barriers to Entry
- Blaze Collection
- By: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
You will have ninety minutes to solve the murder. A startling declaration by a new Harvard instructor: sixty-seven-year-old Frances Glessner Lee. It’s 1945. Before her, six wary male students given to assumptions—especially when it comes to women without a formal education—are challenged to solve a real-life whodunit using Mrs. Lee’s creation, the crime scene diorama. Every detail is accurate. And every detail matters when solving a crime with no survivors…
-
Daughters of Paris
- By: Elisabeth Hobbes
- Narrated by: Stephanie Beattie
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Paris 1930s. Childhood companions Fleur and Colette make a vow, under the trailing ivy of their secret garden, that they will be secret sisters forever. But as they grow up, the promises of childhood are put to the ultimate test. For Colette is the daughter of the house, and her life is all jazz clubs, silk dresses and chilled champagne, while Fleur is the orphan niece of the housekeeper and doesn’t feel like she belongs anywhere. Years later, in 1939, life as they know it will never be the same.
Publisher's Summary
After the defeated Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte goes into exile on tiny St. Helena Island in the remote South Atlantic, he and his lover, Albine de Montholon, plot to escape and rescue his young son. Banding together African slaves, British sympathizers, a Jewish merchant, a Corsican rogue, and French followers, they confront British opposition as well as treachery within their own ranks with sometimes subtle, sometimes bold, but always desperate action. When Napoleon and Albine break faith with one another, ambition and Albine’s husband threaten their reconciliation. To survive, Albine must decide whom to betray. To succeed, Napoleon must learn whom to trust. With its delightful adaptation of Napoleon’s real attempt to write a novel, Finding Napoleon offers a fresh take on Europe’s most powerful man after he’s lost everything. A forgotten woman of history, the audacious Albine de Montholon narrates their tale of intrigue, love, and betrayal.