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    Dead Famous

    An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

    by Greg Jenner ...
    Narrated by Greg Jenner ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 47 min

    'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and how fame strikes. Sit back and enjoy the ride.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'[An] engaging and well-researched book... Jenner brings his material to vivid life' ObserverCelebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Habsburgs

    The Rise and Fall of a World Power

    by Martyn Rady ...
    Narrated by Simon Bowie ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 58 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe stretching from Hungary to ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Ruin of All Witches

    Life and Death in the New World

    by Malcolm Gaskill ...
    Narrated by Kristin Atherton ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 4 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.*A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Reformations

    The Early Modern World, 1450-1650

    by Carlos M. N. Eire ...
    Narrated by David Drummond ...

    Unabridged

    39 hours 42 min

    This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Six Wives Of Henry VIII

    by Lady Antonia Fraser ...
    Narrated by Isla Blair ...

    Abridged

    7 hours

    The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr - have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended.But, as Antonia Fraser conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. They may have been victims of Henry's obsession with a male heir, but they were not ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Global Crisis

    War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

    by Geoffrey Parker ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    48 hours 44 min

    The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-seventeenth century. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses-the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to ... Read more

    $58.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Golden Age, The

    Trade, Art, and Movements during the Dutch Golden Age

    by Kelly Mass ...
    Narrated by Chris Newman ...

    Unabridged

    47 min

    The Netherlands had a great century in the 1600s, until it all ended about three-fourths along the way. Trading was all around, business was good. Their vast empire that reached across the world made money from spices, raw materials, metals, and so much more, with an extensive network of ships, merchants, and an entire army fleet.The Dutch Golden Era was a time in Dutch history varying circa from ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Born to Be Hanged

    The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

    by Keith Thomson ...
    Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England—perfect for readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough (Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God)The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, ... Read more

    $55.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Short History of Russia

    by Mark Galeotti ...
    Narrated by Mark Galeotti ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 50 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Can anyone truly understand Russia? Let one of the world's leading experts show you how, using the fascinating history of a nation to illuminate its future.Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethnos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone’s ‘other’. And yet it is one of the most powerful nations on earth, a master ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Uskyldig kjærlighet

    by Barbara Cartland, Barbara Cartland Lydbøker ...
    Narrated by Charlotte Grundt ...
    Audiobook 6 - Den evige samlingen

    Unabridged

    4 hours 46 min

    I Monte Carlo ryker hertugen av Atherstone opp i en voldsom trette med sin elskerinne, Lady Millicent, som ønsker å gifte seg med ham. I raseri forlater han Monte Carlo med kurs for Nord-Afrika. I Alger møter han en gammel venn, den berømte forfatteren Nicholas Vlastov. For å oppmuntre hertugen, som er lut lei av sosietetslivet, tar Nicholas ham med for å besøke slavemarkedet. Blant de europeiske ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

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    Mistresses

    Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II

    by Linda Porter ...
    Narrated by Julie Teal ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 43 min

    According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was ‘addicted to women’, and throughout his long reign a great many succumbed to his charms. Clever, urbane and handsome, Charles presided over a hedonistic court, in which licence and licentiousness prevailed.Mistresses is the story of the women who shared Charles’s bed, each of whom wielded influence on both the politics and cultural life ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Devil-Land

    England Under Siege, 1588-1688

    by Clare Jackson ...
    Narrated by Emma Gregory ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 10 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.**A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTA ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history**Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Nature's Mutiny

    How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

    by Philipp Blom ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 33 min

    ‘Europe where the sun dares scarce appearFor freezing meteors and congealed cold.’Christopher MarloweIn this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis that would transform the entire social and political fabric of Europe.While hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, by the end of the sixteenth century ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Invention of Science

    A New History of the Scientific Revolution

    by David Wootton ...
    Narrated by James Langton ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 4 min

    A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder and Darwin’s Ghosts, a groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand our world.We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today, science and its practitioners have come under political attack. In this fascinating history spanning ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Hoax

    The Popish Plot That Never Was

    by Victor Stater ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 8 min

    The extraordinary story of the Popish Plot and how it shaped the political and religious future of Britain In 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England planned to assassinate the king. Men like the "Reverend Doctor" Titus Oates and "Captain" William Bedloe parlayed their fantastical tales of Irish ruffians, medical poisoners, and silver bullets into public adulation and ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Pepys' Diary Vol 1

    by Samuel Pepys ...
    Narrated by Kenneth Branagh ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 53 min

    Pepys' Diary is one of the most celebrated journals of all time. Such is the wit and style of Pepys' writing that listeners to this selection from the early years of the diary will gain not only a unique view of seventeenth century London life but also a vivid picture of Pepys the man as he strives to establish himself in his career and in society.(P)2008 Hodder & Stoughton ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Unfabling the East

    The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia

    by Jürgen Osterhammel ...
    Narrated by Ric Jerrom ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 49 min

    This audiobook narrated by Ric Jerrom reveals how Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Histoire du Château de Versailles

    by Olivier Mignon ...
    Narrated by Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Evelyne Lecucq ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 5 min

    1-Le choix du site et la construction du château 2-La vie au château et le parc ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Empress

    The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan

    by Ruby Lal ...
    Narrated by Suzanne Toren ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 58 min

    In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favorite wife of the Emperor Jahangir, who ruled the vast Mughal Empire. An astute politician as well as a devoted partner, she issued imperial orders; coins of the realm bore her name. When Jahangir was imprisoned by a rebellious nobleman, the Empress led troops into ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    1619

    Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy

    by James Horn ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 47 min

    The essential history of the extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand in colonial Virginia.Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of history. In the newly built church at Jamestown, the ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    History of Great Britain

    Historical Highlights and Drama from British History

    by Kelly Mass ...
    Narrated by Chris Newman ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 8 min

    This is a compilation of 2 different titles, which are about the following topics:1: The Great Fire of London was a massive fire in the ominous year of 1666, which destroyed the homes of more than 80% of the city’s inhabitants, which was around 80,000 people back then. In this guide, we will go over how the fire most likely started, why it took such a toll on the London population, and why it kept ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Bishops’ Wars, The: The History of the Religious Conflicts that Engulfed Britain and Led to the First English Civil War

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Daniel Houle ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 58 min

    England has more often been faced with the claims of competing kings and queens than with a period of no monarch at all. The major exception to that rule came in the 11 years between 1649 and 1660, when England was a republic. Following the disastrous reign of Charles I and the civil wars that led to his execution, Parliament and the army ruled England.That situation was one that would not have ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Charles I (Penguin Monarchs)

    An Abbreviated Life

    by Mark Kishlansky ...
    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 29 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Charles I: An Abbreviated Life by Mark Kishlansky, read by John Sackville.The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of religious and political disputes. In Mark Kishlansky's brilliant account it is never in doubt that Charles ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Enlightenment

    Reason, Tolerance, and Humanity

    by James Schmidt ...
    Narrated by James Schmidt ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    The Enlightenment stands at the threshold of the modern age. It elevated the natural sciences to the preeminent position they enjoy in modern culture. It inaugurated a skepticism toward tradition and authority that decisively shaped modern attitudes in religion, morality, and politics. And it gave birth to a vision of history that saw man, through the unfettered use of his own reason, at last ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial