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Shattered Lands

Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

by Sam Dalrymple ...

**Longlisted for the 2026 Cundill History PrizeA 2026 Orwell Prize Finalist for Political WritingA Financial Times, NPR, and BBC History Best Book of the YearA bold and sweeping history of modern South Asia, told through the five partitions that reshaped it.**As recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial ... Read more

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**Longlisted for the 2026 Cundill History PrizeA 2026 Orwell Prize Finalist for Political WritingA Financial Times, NPR, and BBC History Best Book of the YearA bold and sweeping history of modern South Asia, told through the five partitions that reshaped it.**As recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial
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Shattered Lands

Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

by Sam Dalrymple ...

Narrated by Sam Dalrymple ...

Unabridged

15 hours 50 min

A bold and sweeping history of modern South Asia, told through the five partitions that reshaped it.As recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the “Indian Empire” or, more simply, as the Raj. It was the British Empire’s crown jewel, home to a quarter of the world’s ... Read more

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A bold and sweeping history of modern South Asia, told through the five partitions that reshaped it.As recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the “Indian Empire” or, more simply, as the Raj. It was the British Empire’s crown jewel, home to a quarter of the world’s
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Captives and Companions

A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World

by Justin Marozzi ...

Narrated by Richard Trinder ...

Unabridged

19 hours 42 min

Slavery in the Islamic world has a complex and controversial history. In the earliest days of Islam, Arab Muslims enslaved men, women, and children as the spoils of war. In the following centuries, young boys were imported to imperial Islamic courts in enormous numbers. Some were castrated to serve as guardians of sacred spaces, while others were "harvested" by the Ottomans to serve in the sultan ... Read more

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Slavery in the Islamic world has a complex and controversial history. In the earliest days of Islam, Arab Muslims enslaved men, women, and children as the spoils of war. In the following centuries, young boys were imported to imperial Islamic courts in enormous numbers. Some were castrated to serve as guardians of sacred spaces, while others were "harvested" by the Ottomans to serve in the sultan
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The World of the Cold War

1945-1991

by Vladislav Zubok ...

Narrated by Rufus Wright ...

Unabridged

13 hours 16 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.A sweeping, original history of the Cold War, from an acclaimed historian of the USSR**Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union?In this comprehensive guide to the most widespread conflict in contemporary history, ... Read more

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**Brought to you by Penguin.A sweeping, original history of the Cold War, from an acclaimed historian of the USSR**Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union?In this comprehensive guide to the most widespread conflict in contemporary history,
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Stay Alive

Berlin, 1939-1945

by Ian Buruma ...

Narrated by Ian Buruma ...

Unabridged

12 hours 15 min

**Named a Best Book of 2026 So Far by The New Yorker“Crisply told and uncomfortably relevant.” —The New York Times Book Review“Exquisite.” —Wall Street JournalAn astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation**In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their ... Read more

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**Named a Best Book of 2026 So Far by The New Yorker“Crisply told and uncomfortably relevant.” —The New York Times Book Review“Exquisite.” —Wall Street JournalAn astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation**In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their
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Between the Waves

A rich new history of Britain's relationship with Europe

by Tom McTague ...

Narrated by Eliot Chapman ...

Unabridged

16 hours 52 min

****Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction**This is the definitive history of Britain’s tumultuous relationship with Europe – as it’s never been told before.*'*Powerful, precise, morally engaged, wonderfully alert to character, context and the greater purpose of political life' – Rory Stewart, author of Politics on the Edge'A** lucid, thoughtful and richly provocative book' – ... Read more

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****Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction**This is the definitive history of Britain’s tumultuous relationship with Europe – as it’s never been told before.*'*Powerful, precise, morally engaged, wonderfully alert to character, context and the greater purpose of political life' – Rory Stewart, author of Politics on the Edge'A** lucid, thoughtful and richly provocative book' –
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Those Who Are About to Die

A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator

by Harry Sidebottom ...

Narrated by Justin Avoth ...

Unabridged

10 hours 58 min

**ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • See ancient Rome through the eyes of a gladiator—from the evening before the games at the Colosseum to the evening after"A grippingly original way of making the alien world of the Roman Amphitheatre both accessible and comprehensible." —Tom Holland, co-host of The Rest is History**What did a gladiator feel when he stepped out onto the sand of the ... Read more

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**ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • See ancient Rome through the eyes of a gladiator—from the evening before the games at the Colosseum to the evening after"A grippingly original way of making the alien world of the Roman Amphitheatre both accessible and comprehensible." —Tom Holland, co-host of The Rest is History**What did a gladiator feel when he stepped out onto the sand of the
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Andromeda

An electric reclaiming of the most famed, white-washed woman in Greek mythology

by E.S. McLeod ...

Narrated by E.S. McLeod, Phoebe Campbell ...

Unabridged

10 hours 2 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Blessed by the gods with unparalleled beauty, Andromeda lives a life of ease within her Aethiopian palace walls. Content with her sanctuary, the young princess has no concerns other than the royal expectations her parents have for her – until a single, fateful proclamation changes everything.When the queen defies the gods with a blasphemous claim, Poseidon, fearsome God ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.Blessed by the gods with unparalleled beauty, Andromeda lives a life of ease within her Aethiopian palace walls. Content with her sanctuary, the young princess has no concerns other than the royal expectations her parents have for her – until a single, fateful proclamation changes everything.When the queen defies the gods with a blasphemous claim, Poseidon, fearsome God
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Blueprints

How Mathematics Shapes Creativity

by Marcus du Sautoy ...

Narrated by Mark Elstob ...

Unabridged

13 hours 2 min

An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the artsWhen Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth’s lot, he uses something very weird to do it: not simply “eye of newt and toe of frog,” but the number seven. And when Hamlet claims, “To be or not to be, that is the question,” ... Read more

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An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the artsWhen Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth’s lot, he uses something very weird to do it: not simply “eye of newt and toe of frog,” but the number seven. And when Hamlet claims, “To be or not to be, that is the question,”
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Murder in Paris '68

A True Story of Death and Glamour

by Edward Chisholm ...

Narrated by Orlando Wells ...

Unabridged

12 hours 30 min

A riveting true crime investigation into the 1960s Parisian underworld and an unsolved murder that brought the country to its knees.An intimate, shocking true story from the Parisian demi-monde of the 1960s, Murder in Paris '68 evokes an era when the high-life and the low-life went hand in hand. It was a time when the French New Wave of cinema was taking the world by storm, a time of glamour, ... Read more

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A riveting true crime investigation into the 1960s Parisian underworld and an unsolved murder that brought the country to its knees.An intimate, shocking true story from the Parisian demi-monde of the 1960s, Murder in Paris '68 evokes an era when the high-life and the low-life went hand in hand. It was a time when the French New Wave of cinema was taking the world by storm, a time of glamour,
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America, América

A New History of the New World

by Greg Grandin ...

Narrated by Holter Graham ...

Unabridged

25 hours 55 min

**“Dazzling. Sweeping. Mind-altering. World-changing. . . . Destined to become our new reference for understanding the making of the modern world.” —Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of Doppelganger“Scintillating . . . It’s a monumental new view of the New World.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the first comprehensive history of the ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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**“Dazzling. Sweeping. Mind-altering. World-changing. . . . Destined to become our new reference for understanding the making of the modern world.” —Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of Doppelganger“Scintillating . . . It’s a monumental new view of the New World.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the first comprehensive history of the
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You Are the Führer's Unrequited Love

by Jean-Noël Orengo ...

Narrated by Justin Avoth ...

Series series Penguin International Writers
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6 hours 47 min

Brought to you by Penguin.An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer‘Which is the most seductive, truth or fiction?’This is the story of Albert Speer: The protégé. The ‘good Nazi’. The star. The mythmaker.In 1969 Speer, Hitler’s favourite architect and Minister of Armaments and War Production, publishes his memoirs. Rewriting his own past, claiming to have known ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer‘Which is the most seductive, truth or fiction?’This is the story of Albert Speer: The protégé. The ‘good Nazi’. The star. The mythmaker.In 1969 Speer, Hitler’s favourite architect and Minister of Armaments and War Production, publishes his memoirs. Rewriting his own past, claiming to have known
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