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Title: The Money: A Story of Humanity

Author: David Mcwilliams

Narrator: David McWilliams

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Release date: September 12, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

*AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 20-24 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ‘A breathtaking, expansive and imaginative ride through the history and future of money from an author who truly understands it’ PROFESSOR BRIAN COX ‘Exceptional’ FINANCIAL TIMES  ​‘A cracking book that is as enjoyable as it is readable’ PETER FRANKOPAN ‘Equally entertaining and insightful’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS MONEY. The object of our desires. The engine of our genius. Humanity’s greatest invention. Money is everything. It brings freedom and it takes it away. It inspires and corrupts us. But what is money? Is it the main thing holding us back from utopia or is it the one constant that’s driven us to success? In his illuminating, entertaining and often surprising book, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money – from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to coins in Ancient Greece, from mathematics in the medieval Arab world to the French Revolution, and from the emergence of the US dollar right up to today’s cryptocurrency. Along the way, we meet a host of characters who have innovated with money, disrupting society and transforming the way we live. Like humanity, money is ever changing, adapting to its time and circumstances. The question is, over the last 5000 years, have we changed money or has money changed us? Money tells an astonishing new story of our species. Taking the reader on an epic journey through the history of money, McWilliams reveals its fundamental role in our society. ‘An impressive journey that fizzes with facts’ ECONOMIST ‘An eye-opening history of what makes the world go round’ EVENING STANDARD ‘David McWilliams is the best explainer of economics I know’ SIMON KUPER ‘Compelling, funny and original’ KATJA HOYER ‘If, as David McWilliams complains, economists take the fun out of money, then he is the exception that proves the rule: a man who could not write a boring sentence if he tried’ TOM HOLLAND

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Title: The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There

Author: Jack Cornish

Narrator: Jack Cornish

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Release date: April 11, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the rich history of Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again... Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and Wales. By 2026, 10,000 miles of undiscovered footpaths around Britain stand to be lost. Jack Cornish has dedicated the last five years of his life to walking these forgotten routes, and this book, The Lost Paths, is the result. It is Jack Cornish's hope that The Lost Paths will show just how special these forgotten rights of way are, and how embedded each path is in the history of Britain. Footpaths, tracks, country lanes and urban streets illuminate how our ancestors interacted with and shaped their landscapes in the pursuit of commerce, salvation, escape, war, and leisure. Paths are an often-overlooked part of our everyday life and our country's history, crucial to understanding the cultural and environmental history of us in the landscape. After dedicating his time and energy to fighting for their survival, The Lost Paths is Jack's personal journey and exploration of the deep history of English and Welsh footways. This narrative history takes us through ancient forests, exposed mountainsides, urban back streets and coastal vistas to reveal how this millennia-old network was created and has been transformed. This is a celebration of an ancient network and a rallying cry to reclaim what has been lost and preserve it for future generations. © Jack Cornish 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets

Author: Burkhard Bilger

Narrator: Burkhard Bilger

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this 'unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war” (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain) ‘The book we need right now’ Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold. Karl Gönner was a schoolteacher and Nazi party member from the Black Forest. In 1940, he was sent to a village in occupied France and tasked with turning its children into proper Germans. A fervent Nazi when the war began, he grew close to the villagers over the next four years, till he came to think of himself as their protector, shielding them from his own party’s brutality. Yet he was arrested in 1946 and accused of war crimes. Was he guilty or innocent? A vicious collaborator or just an ordinary man, struggling to atone for his country’s crimes? Bilger goes to Germany to find out. What follows is a literary suspense story: a tale of chance encounters and serendipitous discoveries in villages and dusty archives across Germany and France. Intimate and far-reaching, Fatherland is an extraordinary odyssey through the great upheavals of the past century, tracing one family’s path through history’s wreckage. For readers of Bart van Es’s The Cut Out Girl or Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with the Amber Eyes, this is a story of middle lands, torn allegiances and loaded family inheritance.

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Title: The West: A New History of an Old Idea

Author: Naoíse Mac Sweeney

Narrator: Shaheen Khan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Release date: April 27, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

*A Radio 4 Book of the Week* Brought to you by Penguin. We tend to imagine Western Civilisation as a golden thread, leading through the centuries from classical antiquity to the countries of the modern West - a cultural genealogy that connects Plato to NATO. It is an idea often invoked in the speeches of politicians and the rhetoric of journalists, and which remains deeply embedded in popular culture. But what if it is wrong? In an epic sweep through the ages, prize-winning archaeologist and historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney charts the history of this idea - an idea of enormous political significance, but which is nonetheless factually incorrect and obscures the wondrous, rich diversity of our past. She reveals how this particular version of Western history was invented, how it has been used to justify imperialism and racism, and why it is no longer ideologically fit for purpose today. Told through the lives of fourteen fascinating historical figures - including a formidable Roman matriarch, an unconventional Islamic scholar, an enslaved African American poetess and a British prime minister with Homeric aspirations - The West is a groundbreaking retelling of Western history and a powerful corrective to one of the greatest myths of all: Western Civilisation. ©2023 Naoíse Mac Sweeney (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War

Author: Julie Mcdowall

Narrator: Julie Mcdowall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Release date: April 6, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. There have been many histories of the Cold War but Attack Warning Red is the first book to tell the domestic story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front. The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 changed the nature of war forever. The awesome power of the atomic blast and its deadly fallout meant that nowhere was safe: every town, village, street and home in Britain fell under the nuclear shadow, and the threat of annihilation coloured every aspect of ordinary life for the next forty years. As the media reported on the inevitability of approaching conflict with the Soviet Union, the British people were told to prepare for the coming apocalypse. Families were taught how to construct makeshift shelters in their homes and stockpile food and medicines; vicars and pub landlords were instructed to sound hand-wound sirens to deliver the Four Minute Warning. Schools and hospitals prepared for the worst, and thousands volunteered for civil defence organisations to be trained in nuclear first aid. And while the British people were expected to look after themselves, bunkers were prepared for government officials and experts needed to ensure that life continued after the catastrophe. Looming nuclear war and the planning for it affected people's everyday lives: it informed their childhoods, structured their work, and inhabited their dreams and nightmares. Today, more than thirty years after the end of the Cold War, we read this story - with its Dad's Army comedy, endearing amateurism and futile measures for a war that was not survivable - with a sense of relief that the worst did not happen; but it is also a timely - and frightening - reminder that the nuclear threat will always be with us. ©2023 Julie McDowall (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times – World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

Author: Nina Siegal

Narrator: Steven Jay, Nan Mcnamara, Mike Ortego, Rob Shapiro, Robert Petkoff, Catherine Taber, Maggie-Meg Reed, Jim Meskimen, Jenna Lamia

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

Release date: February 21, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven’t seen in quite this way before. This audiobook is read by Nina Siegal, Maggi-Meg Reed, Nan McNamara, Catherine Taber, Jenna Lamia, Rob Shapiro, Mike Ortego, Robert Petkoff, Steven Jay Cohen and Jim Meskimen Nina Siegal, an accomplished journalist and novelist, weaves together excerpts from the daily journals of collaborators, resistors, and the persecuted—a Dutch Nazi police detective, a Jewish journalist imprisoned at Westerbork transit camp, a grocery store owner who saved dozens of lives—into a braided nonfictional narrative of the Nazi occupation and the Dutch Holocaust, as individuals experienced it day by day. Siegal provides the context, both historical and personal, while she tries to make sense of her own relationship to this past. As a “second-generation survivor” born and raised in New York, she attempts to understand what it meant for her mother and maternal grandparents to live through the war in Europe in those times. When Siegal moved to Amsterdam, those questions came up again, as did another horrifying one: Why did 75 percent of the Dutch Jewish community perish in the war, while in other Western European countries the proportions were significantly lower? How did this square with the narratives of Dutch resistance she had heard so much about, and in what way did it relate to the famed Dutch tolerance? Searching and singular, The Diary Keepers takes us into the lives of seven diary writers and follows their pasts into the present, through interviews with those who preserved and inherited these diaries. Along the way, Siegal investigates the nature of memory and how the traumatic past is rewritten again and again.

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Title: The Holocaust: An Unfinished History

Author: Dan Stone

Narrator: John Sackville

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Release date: January 26, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. The defining event of twentieth-century Europe - the extermination of millions of Jews - has been commemorated, institutionalised and embedded in our collective consciousness. But in this nuanced and perceptive new history, Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute, contends that the true dimension of the horror wrought by the Nazis is inadvertently brushed aside in our current culture of commemoration. This is due in part to practical or conceptual challenges, such as the continent-wide scale of the crime and the multiplicity of sources in many languages; and in part to an unwillingness to confront the reality that the Holocaust could not have happened without the assistance of numerous non-Nazi states and agents. Structured around four themes - trauma, collaboration, genocidal fantasy and post-war consequences - The Holocaust demonstrates the genocidal logic of much European thinking in the wake of WWI, explores how the Holocaust's effects unfolded even after the liberation of the camps in 1945, and stresses the ways in which Europeans continue, even now, to draw on a reservoir of fascist vocabulary and imagery in times of crisis. It is a deeply researched and indispensable examination of a trauma that still reverberates today. © Dan Stone 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: [Spanish] - Drenajes

Author: Diego Rodríguez Landeros

Narrator: Carlos Canales

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2022

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

'Todo parte en un remolino, un espiral de agua que traga lagos, ríos, gente, el flujo completo de un país que desacomoda y que termina desapareciendo por el resumidero. Con una escritura líquida e inclasificable, mitad crónica, mitad ensayo, Diego Rodríguez Landeros convoca la memoria del agua resucitando las ausencias, enfocando la marca de los cadáveres lacustres y fluviales que dieron vida a comunidades enteras. Vertiginosa, lúdica, luminosa y conmovedoramente inteligente, esta obra nos advierte, como el Ángel de la Historia de Benjamin, sobre las ruinas que trae el huracán del progreso.'—Nona Fernández 'Diego Rodríguez Landeros tiene una prosa estupenda.'—Jorge Comensal Escritos con una triple escafandra de ficción, crónica y ensayo, los textos de Drenajes se sumergen en algunos momentos claves de la historia del agua en México para emerger de ahí con un ramillete de maravillas literarias. Desde las obras hidráulicas impulsadas por tlatoanis aztecas, reyes texcocanos y presidentes priistas, hasta los trasvases kilométricos que abastecen a las megalópolis del siglo xxi, pasando por cañerías subterráneas, ríos contaminados y la desecación de cuencas hidrográficas como resultado de megaproyectos virreinales, agroindustriales, inmobiliarios o energéticos, los hitos visitados en este libro conforman un mosaico que muestra los usos y abusos del agua en este país, así como un recuento de los beneficiados y damnificados de esos procesos. Al mismo tiempo, reafirmando su irrenunciable vocación literaria, la investigación se ramifica en un delta que conduce a inesperados finales de cuento, perfiles de personajes delirantes, digresiones poéticas, honduras filosóficas y reflexiones atípicas donde la mirada, tras el avistamiento de las profundidades, es capaz de ver orillas antes ocultas por la niebla. Drenajes, tercer libro de ensayos de Diego Rodríguez Landeros, continua la línea literaria de investigación sobre la crisis hidrológica en México que el autor ha realizado, cuya primera parte es la novela Desagüe, publicada también en Scribd Audio.

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Title: Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57

Author: Chips Channon

Narrator: Tom Ward

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 48 hours 17 minutes

Release date: November 24, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with a prematurely aged Chips descending into poor health but still socially active and able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and the good with whom he mingles. Throughout these final fourteen years Chips assiduously describes events in and around Westminster, gossiping about individual MPs' ambitions and indiscretions, but also rising powerfully to the occasion to capture the mood of the House on VE Day or the ceremony of George VI's funeral. His energies, though, are increasingly absorbed by a private life that at times reaches Byzantine levels of complexity. Separated and then divorced from his wife Honor, he conducts passionate relationships with a young officer on Wavell's staff and with the playwright Terence Rattigan, while being serially unfaithful to both. The one constant in his life is his son, Paul, whom he adores. Through Chips's friendship with Rattigan we encounter the London of the theatre and the cinema, peopled by such figures as John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. At the same time we continue to experience vicariously a seemingly endless social round of grand parties and receptions at which Chips might well rub shoulders with Lady Diana Cooper, or Cecil Beaton, or the Mountbattens, or any number of dethroned European monarchs. Those unfortunate enough to die while the pen is in Chips's hand are frequently captured in less than flattering epigrammatic obituaries. The Archbishop of Canterbury was a 'fat fool of 63'. Lloyd George was a 'wicked unscrupulous rogue of charm'. George Bernard Shaw 'died as he lived - very selfishly'. But Chips's gift for friendship and his frequent kindness shine through, too. He has been described as 'The greatest British diarist of the 20th century'. This final volume fully justifies that accolade. © Chips Channon 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp

Author: Simon Parkin

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

The “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected foreign agents on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee musicians, intellectuals, artists, and—possibly—genuine spies. Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo’s roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England on a Kindertransport rescue, an effort sanctioned by the UK government to evacuate minors from Nazi-controlled areas. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. During Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s, tens of thousands of German and Austrian Jews like Peter escaped and found refuge in Britain. After war broke out and paranoia gripped the nation, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered that these innocent asylum seekers—so-called “enemy aliens”—be interned. When Peter arrived at Hutchinson Camp, he found one of history’s most astounding prison populations: renowned professors, composers, journalists, and artists. Together, they created a thriving cultural community, complete with art exhibitions, lectures, musical performances, and poetry readings. The artists welcomed Peter as their pupil and forever changed the course of his life. Meanwhile, suspicions grew that a real spy was hiding among them—one connected to a vivacious heiress from Peter’s past. Drawing from unpublished first-person accounts and newly declassified government documents, award-winning journalist Simon Parkin reveals an “extraordinary yet previously untold true story” (Daily Express) that serves as a “testimony to human fortitude despite callous, hypocritical injustice” (The New Yorker) and “an example of how individuals can find joy and meaning in the absurd and mundane” (The Spectator).