Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

Audiobook

The Longest Day

June 6, 1944

by Cornelius Ryan ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Unabridged

8 hours 47 min

The classic account of the Allied invasion of NormandyThe Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly re-creates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that ... Read more

$19.95 USD

The classic account of the Allied invasion of NormandyThe Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly re-creates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that
... Read more
Audiobook

A Bridge Too Far

by Cornelius Ryan ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Unabridged

18 hours 12 min

The classic account of one of the most dramatic battles of World War IIA Bridge Too Far is Cornelius Ryan’s masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshaled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-day.In this compelling work of history, Ryan narrates the Allied effort to end the war in Europe in 1944 by ... Read more

$31.95 USD

The classic account of one of the most dramatic battles of World War IIA Bridge Too Far is Cornelius Ryan’s masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshaled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-day.In this compelling work of history, Ryan narrates the Allied effort to end the war in Europe in 1944 by
... Read more
Audiobook

Echoes of Sherlock Holmes

Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon

by Laurie R. King, Leslie S. Klinger ...

Narrated by various narrators, Alison Larkin, Clive Chafer, Derek Perkins, Donald Corren, Anne Flosnik, Kate Reading0, Marguerite Gavin1, Mirron Willis2, Ralph Lister3, Saskia Maarleveld4, Sarah Nichols5, Tim Gerard Reynolds6, Traber Burns7 ...

Series series The Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon Series
Unabridged

13 hours 29 min

A brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canonIn this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Leslie Klinger put forth the question: What happens when great writers/creators who are not known as Sherlock Holmes devotees admit to being inspired by Conan Doyle stories? While some are highly regarded mystery writers, ... Read more

$19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

A brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canonIn this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Leslie Klinger put forth the question: What happens when great writers/creators who are not known as Sherlock Holmes devotees admit to being inspired by Conan Doyle stories? While some are highly regarded mystery writers,
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Play All

A Bingewatcher’s Notebook

by Clive James ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Unabridged

4 hours 48 min

Television and TV viewing are not what they once were—and that’s a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columnist for the London Observer from 1972 to 1982, James has witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming and in the very manner in which television is watched. Here he examines this unique cultural revolution, ... Read more

$16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

Television and TV viewing are not what they once were—and that’s a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columnist for the London Observer from 1972 to 1982, James has witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming and in the very manner in which television is watched. Here he examines this unique cultural revolution,
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Dear Theo

The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh

by Vincent van Gogh, Irving Stone, Jean Stone ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Unabridged

21 hours 18 min

Each night, when the hours of painting and drawing were over, Vincent van Gogh put pen to paper and poured out his heart through letters to his beloved brother Theo, his confidant and companion. No thought was too small, no element of his craft too insignificant, no happening too trivial. It was all scrupulously recorded and shared. In these letters, Van Gogh reveals himself as artist and man. ... Read more

$24.95 USD

Each night, when the hours of painting and drawing were over, Vincent van Gogh put pen to paper and poured out his heart through letters to his beloved brother Theo, his confidant and companion. No thought was too small, no element of his craft too insignificant, no happening too trivial. It was all scrupulously recorded and shared. In these letters, Van Gogh reveals himself as artist and man.
... Read more
Audiobook

God’s Secretaries

The Making of the King James Bible

by Adam Nicolson ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Unabridged

8 hours 40 min

A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than it had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn ... Read more

$19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than it had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The French Revolution

From Enlightenment to Tyranny

by Ian Davidson ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Unabridged

11 hours 52 min

A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment, by former Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Ian DavidsonThe French Revolution casts a long shadow, one that reaches into our own time and influences our debates on freedom, equality, and authority. Yet it remains an elusive, perplexing historical event. Its significance morphs ... Read more

$22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment, by former Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Ian DavidsonThe French Revolution casts a long shadow, one that reaches into our own time and influences our debates on freedom, equality, and authority. Yet it remains an elusive, perplexing historical event. Its significance morphs
... Read more
Audiobook

How to Plan a Crusade

Religious War in the High Middle Ages

by Christopher Tyerman ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Unabridged

13 hours 53 min

A spirited and sweeping account of how the Crusades really worked―and a revolutionary attempt to rethink how we understand the Middle AgesThe story of the wars and conquests initiated by the first Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly from describing the pope’s calls to arms to the battlefield. In this highly original and enjoyable new book, Christopher ... Read more

$22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A spirited and sweeping account of how the Crusades really worked―and a revolutionary attempt to rethink how we understand the Middle AgesThe story of the wars and conquests initiated by the first Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly from describing the pope’s calls to arms to the battlefield. In this highly original and enjoyable new book, Christopher
... Read more
Audiobook

The Secret World

A History of Intelligence

by Christopher Andrew ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Unabridged

37 hours 43 min

The history of espionage is far older than any of today’s intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and ... Read more

$29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

The history of espionage is far older than any of today’s intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Rebellion

The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution

by Peter Ackroyd ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Series Audiobook 3 - The History of England Series
Unabridged

19 hours

Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning the progress south of the Scottish king James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ending with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson James II.The Stuart ... Read more

$24.95 USD

Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning the progress south of the Scottish king James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ending with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson James II.The Stuart
... Read more
Audiobook

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 3

Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965

by William Manchester, Paul Reid ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Unabridged

53 hours 24 min

Spanning the years 1940 to 1965, Defender of the Realm, the third volume of William Manchester’s The Last Lion, picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became prime minister—when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill portrayed by Manchester and Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning-fast intellect, and an irresistible will to ... Read more

$34.95 USD

Spanning the years 1940 to 1965, Defender of the Realm, the third volume of William Manchester’s The Last Lion, picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became prime minister—when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill portrayed by Manchester and Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning-fast intellect, and an irresistible will to
... Read more
Audiobook

The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die

by Colin Cotterill ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Series Audiobook 9 - The Dr. Siri Paiboun Series
Unabridged

7 hours 43 min

The long-awaited follow-up to Slash and Burn and the ninth installment in Colin Cotterill's bestselling mystery series starring the inimitable Lao national coroner, Dr. SiriIn a small Lao village, a very strange thing has happened. A woman was shot and killed in her bed during a burglary; she was given a funeral and everyone in the village saw her body burned. Then, three days later, she was back ... Read more

$19.95 USD

Also available as: eBook

The long-awaited follow-up to Slash and Burn and the ninth installment in Colin Cotterill's bestselling mystery series starring the inimitable Lao national coroner, Dr. SiriIn a small Lao village, a very strange thing has happened. A woman was shot and killed in her bed during a burglary; she was given a funeral and everyone in the village saw her body burned. Then, three days later, she was back
... Read more

Also available as: eBook