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The African Emperor
- The Life of Septimius Severus
- By: Simon Elliott
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Septimius Severus was Rome's black emperor. Born in the blistering heat of a North African spring in Leptis Magna AD 145, he died in the freezing cold of a northern British winter in York in AD 211. A giant of an emperor, whose career can be counted in superlatives, Severus was in power at the height of Rome's might. He led the largest army to ever campaign in Britain, comprising 50,000 men, part of a Roman military establishment which peaked at 33 legions under his rule. Born into the richest family, in the richest part of the Roman Empire, Severus monumentalised his rule across the empire.
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The African Emperor
- The Life of Septimius Severus
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 11-09-2025
- Language: English
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Beethoven
- A Life in Nine Pieces
- By: Laura Tunbridge
- Narrated by: Laura Tunbridge
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Featuring integrated music and full orchestra recordings. Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at...
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First Beethoven biography I've made it through!
- By Anonymous on 27-04-2022
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Beethoven
- A Life in Nine Pieces
- Narrated by: Laura Tunbridge
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 16-07-2020
- Language: English
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A Cardinal for the Ages
- Merry del Val and His Enduring Influence on the Church
- By: Roberto de Mattei
- Narrated by: Chris Larsen
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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This fascinating work on the life and times of Cardinal Merry del Val from renowned historian Roberto de Mattei provides a first-ever, in-depth look at the remarkable life of a Servant of God who served four popes. Spanish by birth, English by education, Cardinal del Val studied in Rome, entering in 1885, by the will of Leo XIII, the Pontifical Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles.
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A Cardinal for the Ages
- Merry del Val and His Enduring Influence on the Church
- Narrated by: Chris Larsen
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 27-10-2025
- Language: English
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The Road to Station X
- From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park: A Memoir of One Woman’s Journey Through World War Two
- By: Sarah Baring
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In 1938, Sarah Baring was enjoying life as a young debutante. Only a few years later, at the height of World War Two, she was working alongside some of the greatest minds of Britain in their code-breaking operations at Bletchley Park. How did she end up in the top-secret world of cyphers and codes?
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The Road to Station X
- From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park: A Memoir of One Woman’s Journey Through World War Two
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 29-06-2021
- Language: English
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Roni's Story
- A Daughter of Africa
- By: Veronica Walker
- Narrated by: Alice Sockett
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of Veronica Walker. A second generation white African. This is the story of how one woman learnt to accept loss and rebuild her life time and again and how she learnt to fight for herself against a society where women were deemed as second class citizens and the possession of their husbands or fathers. Fighting for her children's safety, Veronica learns to demand her voice be heard and she be accepted for the independent woman she was.
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Roni's Story
- A Daughter of Africa
- Narrated by: Alice Sockett
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-09-2025
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt: The Autobiography
- By: Theodore Roosevelt
- Narrated by: George Pettingell
- Length: 25 hrs and 35 mins
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Roosevelt was a cowboy, a boxer, a politician, a war hero, a father, a devoted husband, and most of all, a real human being. I hope you will listen to this book in his own words and get to know one of America's presidents, and I hope that you will come to appreciate him as much as I have.
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Theodore Roosevelt: The Autobiography
- Narrated by: George Pettingell
- Length: 25 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2019
- Language: English
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Radical Wordsworth
- The Poet Who Changed the World
- By: Jonathan Bate
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
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A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 ‘Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his work, life and impact’ Financial Times ‘Richly repays reading … It is hard to think of another poet who has changed our world so much’ Sunday Times A...
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A heavy-going academic work
- By Robyn on 15-09-2023
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Radical Wordsworth
- The Poet Who Changed the World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-04-2020
- Language: English
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Make It Do
- A Spitfire Pilot’s True Story of WWII Grit and Survival
- By: Ken Cam
- Narrated by: Joe Mills
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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What if you were flying into war with barely three weeks of training? What if your first dogfight ended with your guns still on safety? What if a single wrong turn landed you in a prison camp halfway across Europe, unsure if you'd ever see home again? This is the extraordinary true story of Ken Cam, a young RAF Spitfire pilot hurled into the chaos of World War II far from ready—but never backing down.
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What a story
- By Benjamin S on 24-09-2025
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Make It Do
- A Spitfire Pilot’s True Story of WWII Grit and Survival
- Narrated by: Joe Mills
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 16-09-2025
- Language: English
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King Arthur and His Knights
- By: Howard Pyle
- Narrated by: Stuart Langston
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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For hundreds of years, the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table has been one of the world's most precious literary possessions. In 1902, the distinguished American artist Howard Pyle undertook to retell and illustrate this classic. His four-volume work has long been considered one of the outstanding interpretations of the Arthurian cycle.
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King Arthur and His Knights
- Narrated by: Stuart Langston
- Series: Round Table, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 19-09-2003
- Language: English
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Victoria's Secret
- The Private Passion of a Queen
- By: Fern Riddell
- Narrated by: Fern Riddell
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Mine is a nature which requires being loved, and I have lost almost all those who loved me most on earth.’ From the moment John Brown arrived as a servant to Queen Victoria's household, he became known across the land as her loyal companion, her fierce protector...
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Victoria's Secret
- The Private Passion of a Queen
- Narrated by: Fern Riddell
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 31-07-2025
- Language: English
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The Shadow Commander
- Soleimani, the US, and Iran’s Global Ambitions
- By: Arash Azizi
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Until his assassination by US drone strike in January 2020, commander Qassem Soleimani was one of the most powerful men in Iran and the military spearhead for Iranian foreign policy, enacting the wishes of the country's Supreme Leader in the region. A widely popular but also feared maverick operator, he helped to establish the Islamic Republic as a major force in the Middle East, with interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. This was a long way from where he began as a youth, living on the margins in a country ruled by a monarch supported by the United States.
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Very informative
- By fabio boschetti on 31-10-2024
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The Shadow Commander
- Soleimani, the US, and Iran’s Global Ambitions
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 15-12-2020
- Language: English
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Madame Brussels
- The Life and Times of Melbourne's Most Notorious Woman
- By: Barbara Minchinton
- Narrated by: Lucy Moir
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in 19th-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until now, little has been known about Caroline Hodgson, the woman behind the alter ego. Born in Prussia to a working-class family, Hodgson arrived in Melbourne in 1871. Left alone when her police-officer husband was sent to work in remote Victoria, she turned her hand to running brothels.
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Madame Brussels
- The Life and Times of Melbourne's Most Notorious Woman
- Narrated by: Lucy Moir
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-07-2025
- Language: English
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The Man Who Saved the Union
- Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
- By: H. W. Brands
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 27 hrs and 51 mins
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From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history. Ulysses Grant rose from...
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The Man Who Saved the Union
- Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 27 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 02-10-2012
- Language: English
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Northerners
- A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day
- By: Brian Groom
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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A Waterstones Best History Book of the Year The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants. ‘Entertaining’ The Times ‘Definitive’ The Mirror ‘Highly readable’ Financial Times A work of unrivalled scale and ambition, Northerners is the...
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Northerners
- A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 14-04-2022
- Language: English
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Paradise Lost
- A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- By: David S. Brown
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
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Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation's shifting mood and manners after World War I. In Paradise Lost, David Brown contends that Fitzgerald's deepest allegiances were to a fading antebellum world he associated with his father's Chesapeake Bay roots. Yet as a midwesterner, an Irish Catholic, and a perpetually in-debt author, he felt like an outsider in the haute bourgeoisie haunts.
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Paradise Lost
- A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2017
- Language: English
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Rival Queens
- By: Kate Williams
- Narrated by: Emma Cunniffe
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Rival Queens by Kate Williams. Elizabeth and Mary: cousins, rivals, queens. They loved each other, they hated each other - they could never escape one another. Kate Williams’ thrilling new history tells the story of Elizabeth I of England and her betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots. At the end of the Tudor era, here were two women on two thrones. But this was a man’s world, and many believed that no woman should govern.
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the tragedy of mary
- By Ben on 25-02-2025
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Rival Queens
- Narrated by: Emma Cunniffe
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 04-10-2018
- Language: English
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Trotsky
- Downfall of a Revolutionary
- By: Bertrand M. Patenaude
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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In Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, Stanford University lecturer Bertrand M. Patenaude tells the dramatic story of Leon Trotsky's final years in exile in Mexico. Shedding new light on Trotsky's tumultuous friendship with painter Diego Rivera, his affair with Rivera’s wife Frida Kahlo, and his torment as his family and comrades become victims of the Great Terror, Trotsky: Downfall ofa Revolutionary brilliantly illuminates the fateful and dramatic life of one of history's most famous yet elusive figures.
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Trotsky
- Downfall of a Revolutionary
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 25-11-2013
- Language: English
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Queen of Codes
- The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest Female Code Breaker
- By: Dr Jackie Ui Chionna
- Narrated by: Melanie McHugh
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Anderson was a leading member of British intelligence for over three decades. She played key roles in both World Wars, worked in Bletchley Park and in the Middle East, and was among the top three female codebreakers in the world. She is famous in musicology circles as being the first to decipher the letters and diaries of Mozart and Beethoven. In 1961 Germany awarded her their highest honour, the Order of Merit First Class, completely ignorant of the fact that the interpretative skills they were honouring were the same utilised to defeat their military only a few years previously.
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What an amazing woman.
- By Anonymous on 04-04-2025
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Queen of Codes
- The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest Female Code Breaker
- Narrated by: Melanie McHugh
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2023
- Language: English
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The Devil's Work
- Australia's Jack the Ripper and the serial murders that shocked the world.
- By: Garry Linnell
- Narrated by: Peter Phelps
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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He was a murderer, swindler, bigamist and suspect in the Jack the Ripper killings. Frederick Deeming was also the most hated man in the world. Claiming to be haunted by the ghost of his dead mother, Deeming had spent years roaming the planet under various aliases, preying on the innocent, the...
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Couldn’t follow a thing
- By Michelle O on 05-01-2026
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The Devil's Work
- Australia's Jack the Ripper and the serial murders that shocked the world.
- Narrated by: Peter Phelps
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 28-09-2021
- Language: English
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A Polish Girl in Siberia
- Surviving and Transcending Exile (Disruption Curios)
- By: Ida Kinalska-Pietruska, Isabella Skrypczak - editor translator
- Narrated by: Isabella Skrypczak
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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A memoir of a child's forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin's Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face of extraordinary hardship. In April of 1940, six-year-old Ida woke to the sound of pounding on her door. Soviet soldiers forcibly packed her and her mother onto a train with thousands of their neighbors and deported them to remote Siberia, leaving them stranded to survive the brutal winter in subhuman conditions.
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A Polish Girl in Siberia
- Surviving and Transcending Exile (Disruption Curios)
- Narrated by: Isabella Skrypczak
- Series: Disruption Curios
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 24-03-2026
- Language: English
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