Audiobooks Narrated by Clive Chafer

A century has passed since the outbreak of World War I, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative new book, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still.

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so.

Spanning 1940 to 1965, this volume picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became prime minister - when Britain stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany....

Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it....

In the tradition of Paul Johnsons s,, and comes a new book of biographical portraits of the greatest humorists and wits in modern history.

First published in Russia as Geroy Nashego Vremeni, A Hero of Our Time is set in the Russian Caucasus in the 1830s.

A spirited and sweeping account of how the Crusades really worked - and a revolutionary attempt to rethink how we understand the Middle Ages

In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany.

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.

Global refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined "basic needs", has changed little.