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    The Hong Kong Diaries

    by Chris Patten ...
    Narrated by Chris Patten ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 41 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not - as other British colonies over the decades - for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years he kept this diary, which describes in detail how Hong Kong was run as ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

    by Gareth Russell ...
    Narrated by Fiona Hampton ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 3 min

    A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out.When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. ‘Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!’During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations and dry-as-a-Martini ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Diana Chronicles

    by Tina Brown ...
    Narrated by Rosalyn Landor ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 22 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.More than twenty years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she "the people's princess," who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy?The Diana Chronicles parts the curtains on Diana's troubled time in the mysterious world of the Windsors, as she ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Empireland

    How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

    by Sathnam Sanghera ...
    Narrated by Homer Todiwala ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.An Apple Best Audiobook of 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'This remarkable book shines the brightest of lights into some of the darkest and most misunderstood corners of our shared history' James O'Brien_____________________________________________________In his brilliantly illuminating new bo... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Short History of London

    The Creation of a World Capital

    by Simon Jenkins ...
    Narrated by Anthony Howell ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 18 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This unremarkable place - not even included in the Domesday Book - became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the largest empire in ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Last of the Few

    The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won It

    by Max Arthur ...
    Narrated by David Shaw Parker, Gareth Armstrong, Patience Tomlinson, Sam Kelly, Tim Pigott-Smith ...

    Abridged

    4 hours 3 min

    After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler's inevitable invasion attempt.For the German Army to be landed across the Channel, Hitler needed mastery of the skies - the RAF would have to be broken - so every day, throughout the summer, German bombers pounded the RAF air bases in the southern ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Mary Queen of Scots: Film Tie-In

    by John Guy ...
    Narrated by Jan Cramer ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 55 min

    Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period.Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, and Queen of France at sixteen years, she grew up in the crosshairs of Europe's political battles ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Tudor

    The Family Story

    by Leanda de Lisle ...
    Narrated by Sandra Duncan ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 8 min

    The Tudors are a national obsession; they are our most notorious family in history. But, as Leanda de Lisle shows in this gripping new history, beyond the well-worn headlines is a family still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew.The Tudor canon typically starts with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, before speeding on to Henry VIII and the Reformation. But this leaves out the family’s ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    You Don't Want to Know

    The grisly, jaw-dropping and most macabre moments from history, nature and beyond

    by James Felton ...
    Narrated by James Buckley ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 57 min

    Read by James Buckley aka unforgettable Jay from The Inbetweeners'With his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, Twitter legend James Felton guides you through the most morbidly fascinating facts you'll then wish you could forget.Ever wondered why the chainsaw was invented?* How authorities dealt with a beached whale back in ye olde days of 1970?** Or what being a human decanter entails?*** Then ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Appeasing Hitler

    Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

    by Tim Bouverie ...
    Narrated by John Sessions ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 4 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of Appeasing Hitler by Tim Bouverie, read by John Sessions.'Appeasing Hitler is an astonishingly accomplished debut. Bouverie writes with a wonderful clarity and we will no doubt hear a lot more of his voice in future'ANTONY BEEVOROn a wet afternoon in September 1938, Neville Chamberlain stepped off an aeroplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Facemaker

    One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

    by Lindsey Fitzharris ...
    Narrated by Daniel Gillies ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war caused carnage on an industrial scale, and the nature of trench warfare meant that thousands sustained facial injuries. In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the true ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Big Con

    How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies

    by Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington ...
    Narrated by Amy Finegan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 56 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Catalpa Rescue

    The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Narrated by Michael Carman ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 20 min

    The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history.New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the British Empire, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Under the guise of a whale hunt, Captain ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Clanlands

    Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other

    by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish ...
    Narrated by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish, Diana Gabaldon ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 22 min

    Winner of the Audie Award 2022 for Best History/Biography Audiobook. Earphones Award Winner 2021.A road trip book with a difference. Stars of Outlander - Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish - explore Scotland, a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare.Narrated by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, with a foreword written and read by Diana Gabaldon.From their faithful camper van to ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family

    by Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand ...
    Narrated by Omid Scobie ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    When news of the budding romance between a beloved English prince and an American actress broke, it captured the world’s attention and sparked an international media frenzy.But while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to make headlines – from their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son Archie to their unprecedented decision to step back from their royal lives – few know the true ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    James Cook

    The story behind the man who mapped the world

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Narrated by Michael Carman ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 23 min

    The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated.But who was the real James Cook?This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, scientist, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to personally map a third of the globe. His great voyages of discovery were ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Song for the Dark Times

    From the iconic #1 bestselling author of IN A HOUSE OF LIES

    by Ian Rankin ...
    Narrated by James Macpherson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    From the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin, comes one of the must-read books of the year: A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'Genius ... Only great novels capture the spirit of the age. This is one of them.'THE TIMES* * * * *'He's gone...'When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two day... ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)

    by Hilary Mantel ...
    Narrated by Dan Stevens, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Jospeh Kloska, Anna Bentinck ...
    series The Wolf Hall Trilogy

    Abridged

    27 hours 27 min

    Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2012 Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013 Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009 Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009‘A masterpiece’ Guardian‘It is a book not read, but lived’ Telegraph‘Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century’ ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Palace Papers

    The Sunday Times bestseller

    by Tina Brown ...
    Narrated by Tina Brown ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 53 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.From the Queen's stoic resolve to the crisis of Meghan and Harry. From the ascendance of Camilla and Kate to the downfall of Andrew.Full of remarkable inside access, The Palace Papers by Sunday Times bestselling author Tina Brown will change how you understand the Royal Family.'A brilliant book. Tina Brown has inside knowledge and writes so well' L... ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

    by Douglas Murray ...
    Narrated by Douglas Murray ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 41 min

    SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER‘The most important book of the year’ Daily MailThe brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray ... ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Churchill

    Walking with Destiny

    by Andrew Roberts ...
    Narrated by Stephen Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    50 hours 28 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in 20th-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the 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 ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Amongst Our Weapons

    The Brand New Rivers Of London Novel

    by Ben Aaronovitch ...
    Narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 39 min

    THE HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE #1 BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIESThere is a world hidden underneath this great city...The London Silver Vaults - for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale in the world. It has more locks than the Bank of England and more cameras than a celebrity punch-up. Not somewhere you can murder someone and vanish without a trace - ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Natives

    Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

    by Akala ...
    Narrated by Akala ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 5 min

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE | THE JHALAK PRIZE | THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING'This is the book I've been waiting for - for years. It's personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are now' Benjamin Zephaniah'I recommend Natives to everyone' Candice Carty-WilliamsFrom the first time he ... ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Clanlands Almanac

    Seasonal Stories from Scotland

    by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish ...
    Narrated by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 27 min

    The follow up to the quarter of a million-copy selling, Sunday Times and New York Times #1 bestselling, Clanlands. Sam & Graham turn tour guides once again to bring listeners more epic tales from Scotland.A seasonal meander through the wilds of Scotland.'If Clanlands was a gentle road trip through Scotland, this Almanac is a top down, pedal to the metal up and down odyssey through the many byways ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial