Historical Memoirs

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    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 829 ratings
    • This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces....

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    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ben Austen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after 50 years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish?

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    • The Wars of the Roses
    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Maggie Mash
    • Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 746 ratings
    • Lancater and York is a riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from the beloved and best-selling historian Alison Weir....

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    • By: William Bolitho
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The author, William Bolitho, celebrates the contradictions and bipolar tensions that live inside and often drive even history's most celebrated heroes....

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    • A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • By: David S. Brown
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 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....

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    • From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934--1937
    • By: Anais Nin
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The renowned diarist continues the story begun in Henry and June and Incest. Drawing from the author's original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin's journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally....

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    • An African Childhood
    • By: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....

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    • By: Catherine Ostler
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ostler
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • When the glamorous Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, Countess of Bristol, went on trial at Westminster Hall for bigamy in April 1776, the story drew more attention in society than the American War of Independence....

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    • The Minds, Methods, and Mayhem of History's Most Notorious Murderers
    • By: Richard Estep
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Pain, torment, and torture. Cruelty, brutality, and violence. The twisted psyches, murder. and yes, even the ability to charm people. Take a deep dive into the terrifyingly real serial murderers, spree killers, and true faces of evil....

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    • The Dawn of Tudor England
    • By: Thomas Penn
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors - the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty....

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    • By: Jon Ronson
    • Narrated by: Jon Ronson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 804 ratings
    • This is the story of a Tulsa debutante who, as a result of a series of unlikely and often very bad life choices she made in the ‘90s, found herself in the midst of one of the most terrible crimes ever to take place in America....

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    • Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
    • By: Martyn Whittock
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist Puritan congregations) and "strangers" (economic migrants) on the original ship....

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    • By: Ronald Hutton
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • In this first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell, Ronald Hutton provides a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history....

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    • Ascent 1889-1939
    • By: Volker Ullrich
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 34 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • A major new biography - an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil....

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    • The Exceptional Life of Anne Boleyn
    • By: Carolly Erickson
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • A powerful ruler, an alluring young woman, a scandal that would rock the nation: Anne Boleyn’s life story sounds more like a juicy TV docu-drama than a chapter of English history.....

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    • The Unsolved Alice Parsons Kidnapping
    • By: Steven C. Drielak
    • Narrated by: Matt Weisgerber
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 15-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • When she was kidnapped from Long Meadow Farm in Stony Brook, New York, in 1937, Alice McDonell Parsons was the heir to a vast fortune among Long Island's wealthy elite. The crime shocked the nation and was front-page news for several months....

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