British Memoirs

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    • The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
    • By: Lady Colin Campbell
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 25 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 185 ratings
    • Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from The New York Times best-selling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Michael Coveney
    • Narrated by: Sian Thomas
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm, or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen career spans six decades....

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    • The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry
    • By: Anne de Courcy
    • Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • From the author of the critically acclaimed The Viceroy's Daughters, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at the heart of political society in the interwar years....

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    • Illegitimate Children of the British Royal Family
    • By: Peter Beauclerk-Dewar, Roger Powell
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • This book is a genuinely fresh approach to British kings and queens, examining their lives and times through the unfamiliar perspective of their illegitimate children....

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    • Joy Division: The Oral History
    • By: Jon Savage
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Jon Savage's oral history of Joy Division is the last word on the band that ended with the suicide of Ian Curtis in Macclesfield on May 18, 1980....

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    • The Life of the American Beauty Who Became the Toast—and Scandal—of Two Continents, Ruled an Age and Raised a Son—Winston Churchill—Who Shaped History
    • By: Ralph G. Martin
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Jennie Churchill was not merely Winston’s mother. She was the most captivating and desired woman of her age. Originally from Brooklyn, Jennie became the reigning queen of British society. Beautiful and defiant, she lived with an honesty that made her the talk of two continents....

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    • A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin
    • By: Margaret Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • A Sunday Times number one bestseller in the United Kingdom, this is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother....

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    • Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
    • By: Georgina Howell
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire....

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    • The Warrior Queen Who Divided a Nation
    • By: Leanda de Lisle
    • Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Henrietta Maria is British history's most reviled queen consort, condemned in her lifetime as a traitor and adulteress and remaining in popular memory the woman who turned her husband Catholic and so caused the English Civil War. This biography considers the story from her point of view....

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    • The Rise of Motörhead
    • By: Martin Popoff
    • Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers is the first book to celebrate the classic-era Motörhead lineup of Lemmy Kilmister, "Fast" Eddie Clarke, and Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor....

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    • This is Gary Barlow as honest, heartfelt and more open than ever before
    • By: Gary Barlow
    • Narrated by: Gary Barlow
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Gary Barlow is one of the most successful British musicians and songwriters of all time, but 15 years ago, as he himself admits, he hit rock bottom - he was out of shape, out of work, depressed....

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    • How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
    • By: Mark Logue, Peter Conradi
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,112 ratings
    • At the urging of his wife, Elizabeth, the Duke of York (and the future king) began to see speech therapist Lionel Logue in a desperate bid to cure his lifelong stammer....

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    • By: Ronald Hutton
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 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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    • William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
    • By: Eric Metaxas
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,623 ratings
    • Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833)....

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    • Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring
    • By: Andrew Lownie
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service....

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    • The Gripping Story of How British Agents Infiltrated the Colombian Drug Cartels
    • By: Tom Chandler
    • Narrated by: Jonathon Keeble
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Tom Chandler arrived in Bogotá at the height of the cocaine boom. Pablo Escobar lay dead, the Cali Cartel had taken over much of the global supply and an avalanche of coke was poised to hit Europe....

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    • The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll
    • By: Lyndsy Spence
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • Margaret, Duchess of Argyll (1912-1993) was an international celebrity in her youth. But in 1963, the year of the Profumo Affair, the 11th Duke of Argyll shocked the country when he alleged that his adulterous wife had slept with over 80 men behind his back....

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