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  Marcus Agrippa: The True Story -...

  Lindsay Powell

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  Robert Harris has brought Agrippa back to life in fiction. Now meet the real man. 
  Marcus Agrippa was the man Augustus could not do without. 
  General. Admiral. Statesman. Diplomat. Builder. Best friend, trusted lieutenant and son-in-law of Rome’s first emperor. For more than three decades, Agrippa fought Rome’s enemies, defeated rival fleets, negotiated with kings, pacified provinces, and transformed the city of Rome. His military victories helped make Augustus’s empire possible. 
  Now Robert Harris’s new novel, “Agrippa,” brings this remarkable Roman back into the spotlight. But what was the real man like? 
  Discover the true story behind the fiction. 
  Acclaimed historian and writer Lindsay Powell draws on the surviving historical evidence to tell the extraordinary story of Marcus Agrippa, from his rise from obscurity to his role as Augustus’s indispensable right-hand man. Agrippa emerges not as a supporting character in someone else’s story, but as one of the most consequential figures of ancient Rome in his own right. 
  This is more than a conventional biographical audiobook. Read by the author, this immersive dramatized adaptation of the book brings the ancient world to life, with selected historical quotations and scenes enhanced with sound effects. 
  For listeners discovering Agrippa through Robert Harris, or anyone fascinated by the people, power and intrigue of ancient Rome, “Marcus Agrippa: The True Story” reveals the amazing life behind the legend — and shows why the reality may be even more compelling than the fiction.

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  Charles de Gaulle - A Life from...

  Hourly History

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  Charles de Gaulle stands among the greatest statesmen in history. Even after the official French government collapsed under the weight of Nazi Germany, de Gaulle refused to accept defeat. He and his followers were pushed into exile, but still they fought on, never losing sight of an eventual victory over their oppressors.
   
  This book delves into Charles de Gaulle’s extraordinary journey—from leading the Free French forces during World War II to playing a key role in the rebuilding of postwar France. It also follows his tenure as president, where he shaped the nation’s modern identity. He lived his life for France, and his own personal history is very much intertwined with the history of his nation. This book explores them both.

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  Hold What Makes You Whole: Poems

  Marcus Amaker

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  This is the audio version of Poet Laureate Marcus Amaker's tenth book, Hold What Makes You Whole. It is read by the author with original music sprinkled in the reading. 
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  PRAISE. 
  Hold What Makes You Whole is a gratifying meditative collection of poems accompanied by kaleidoscopic visual imagery that pulls you in, settles your mind, and makes way for one's own reflections." — Lisa Willis (she/her), executive director of Cave Canem Foundation 
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  THE BOOK. 
  Poet Laureate Marcus Amaker's (he/him) tenth book, Hold What Makes You Whole, is a pocket-sized full-color collection of new and selected works from an award-winning opera librettist, musician, and graphic designer. 
  Hold What Makes You Whole is a 200-page compilation of jazz, Blackness, self care, fatherhood, Star Wars, social justice, music, and memory.  
  On the cover of the book is Amaker’s great-great aunt Ruth Robinson, a poet and community leader who published her first book at the age of 65. 
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  MEET MARCUS.  
  Marcus Amaker is a husband, a dad, a son, a music nerd, and a Star Wars obsessive. He served as the first Poet Laureate of Charleston, South Carolina, from 2016-22. In 2021, he became an Academy of American Poets fellow. 
  His work has been recognized by The Washington Post, The Kennedy Center, American Poets Magazine, Chicago Opera Theater, Button Poetry, NPR, The Chicago Tribune, PBS NewsHour, and more. 
  In addition to more than 40 electronic music albums, Marcus' poem “The Rain” is on two Grammy-nominated records. June 3, 2021, was named “Marcus Amaker Day” by the mayor of Charleston, SC.

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  The Dangerous Wife - A True...

  MJ Checketts

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  Melbourne, Australia, 1899.   
  A society wife shoots her husband on a crowded street, shouting 'I did it!' Then she pleads Not Guilty. 
  The courtroom becomes a battleground as two of Melbourne's fiercest legal minds face off: the principled prosecutor who plays for justice, and the flamboyant showman who plays to the crowd. Newspapers howl. The city takes sides. And at the centre stands Mrs Kathleen Fraser: volatile, defiant, and impossible to ignore. 
  Is she a monster? Hysterical? Or a woman pushed beyond endurance in a world built to silence her? 
  Will she walk free, or pay with her life? 
  The Dangerous Wife resurrects a sensational trial that captivated Australia and then disappeared from history, now reconstructed for the first time from the original evidence. Court transcripts, depositions, private letters, shorthand notes, and hundreds of newspaper reports bring the case to life with the drive and immediacy of a legal thriller. 
  Gripping, shocking, and meticulously researched, it exposes a legal system where a woman's best defence was to play the lady. 
  'A gripping true crime story told with the insight of a forensic legal mind.'  Roy Maloy, true crime history author

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  Richard Beauchamp - Medieval...

  David Brindley

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  'An avaricious knight errant with a taste for the spectacular' or 'one of the few upright and honest figures in these difficult years'?
  Contemporary views of the most colourful, wealthy and powerful knight of medieval England varied wildly, and they continue to do so today. Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, was at the centre of power in the first half of the fifteenth century and, as Henry V's closest friend, accompanied the English warrior king to France to pursue the English claim to the French Crown in the Hundred Years War.
  Richard Beauchamp had an unrivalled reputation for his skills in the strategy of war and diplomacy, and secured Normandy in 1420. He arranged Henry V's marriage and, following the king's death, was appointed as Henry VI's tutor and guardian. In 1431 he encouraged the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition to try to burn Joan of Arc at the stake for heresy. In Richard Beauchamp, David Brindley pens a fascinating biography of this medieval chivalric hero.

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  Beryl the Croucher and the Rest...

  Thomas Burke

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  Thomas Burke was born Sydney Thomas Burke on November 29th, 1886 in Eltham, London (at the time it was part of Kent). 
  An author in the early years of the 20th Century Burke brought his skills of pen and eye to parts of London, specifically the Limehouse district of the East End, to write with drive and vigour about the characters he met and the places that he knew.  Whether he turned that material into fiction or non-fiction the words seep quality.  His publications ranged from these wonderful vignettes of down-at-heel London to writings on homosexuality and the English Countryside. 
  Thomas Burke died in the Homeopathic Hospital in Queens Square, Bloomsbury on 22 September 1945.

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