Audiobooks by Dan Jones

Castles: A Fortified History of the World

"From the bestselling author of The Templars and Powers and Thrones, Dan Jones returns with Castles: a gripping history of the world told through over three thousand years of iconic strongholds. Castles have been built to defend humanity for millennia – from the walls of Troy and the desert bastion of Krak des Chevaliers in Syria; to Windsor Castle and the Tower of London; to Himeji in Japan and the Maginot Line in the Second World War. They have inspired terror and ambition, foiled conquering forces, and been deployed as the ultimate expression of wealth, status and supremacy. Jones leads readers on a journey through centuries and across continents as each castle tells a unique story of power, politics and survival, revealing the shifting tides of warfare, the rise and fall of empires, the resilience of people under siege and the flourishing of new ideas. Blending rich storytelling, cutting-edge research and beautiful original illustrations, Castles is an epic story of how humans first came to build fortifications and how they expanded into powerfully capturing our imagination. With Jones’s trademark scholarship and flair, he shows how defiance, endurance and imagination have been carved into the landscapes we’ve inherited."

Dan Jones (Author), Dan Jones (Narrator)

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Monstrous Tales: Haunting encounters with Britain's mythical beasts

"Bloomsbury presents Monstrous Tales read by Kimberley Nixon, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Ian Hanmore, Oscar Kennedy, Janice Hallett, Catrin Walker-Booth, Dan Jones, Abir Mukherjee, Arthur Darvill and Ralph Ineson. This isle is full of noises... From the beaches of Orkney to the Welsh mountains, and the Derbyshire peaks to the Cornish moors, Britain is home to many strange creatures of folklore. Some are ancient, as enduring as the forests and mountains they inhabit. Others live among us, in our cities, creating new legends as they scuttle through the shadows. And none of them are to be trusted. In this deliciously chilling collection, award-winning and bestselling authors bring you tales inspired by the monsters that share our land. The perfect read for anyone who's ever spotted something slimy and unexplained in their peripheral vision, or seen eyes reflecting back in the forest where no eyes should be. INCLUDES NEW AND ORIGINAL STORIES FROM: Janice Hallett Abir Mukherjee Rosie Andrews Stuart Turton Dan Jones Jenn Ashworth Sunyi Dean Jane Johnson Rebecca Netley C 2025 Rosie Andrews C 2025 Dan Jones C 2025 Janice Hallett C 2025 Sunyi Dean P 2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC C 2025 Abir Mukherjee C 2025 Rebecca Netley C 2025 Stuart Turton C 2025 Jane Johnson C 2025 Jenn Ashworth"

Abir Mukherjee, Dan Jones, Helen-Rose Andrews, Jane Johnson, Janice Hallett, Jenn Ashworth, Rebecca Netley, Rosie Andrews, Stuart Turton, Sunyi Dean (Author), Abir Mukherjee, Arthur Darvill, Catrin Walker-Booth, Dan Jones, Ian Hanmore, Janice Hallett, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Kimberley Nixon, Oscar Kennedy, Ralph Ineson (Narrator)

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[German] - Kreuzfahrer: Der epische Kampf um das Heilige Land.

"Die Geschichte der Kreuzzüge ist nicht die Geschichte von ein paar heldenhaften Rittern, die mit wehenden Fahnen im Namen Christi von Sieg zu Sieg reiten, sondern eines der blutigsten Kapitel der Menschheit, das unzählige (namenlose) Frauen und Männer muslimischen, christlichen oder jüdischen Glaubens erlebt und erlitten haben. Ihnen gibt Dan Jones eine Stimme – mit bisher kaum wahrgenommenen Quellen, mit der Präzision des Cambridge-Historikers und einer beeindruckenden erzählerischen Wucht. Die Kreuzfahrer, die zurück in ihre Heimatdörfer humpelten und vertrocknete Palmblätter aus dem Heiligen Land auf die Altäre der Kirchen legten, hatten 1099 gesiegt: Jerusalem war in christlicher Hand. Es war der vorläufige Höhepunkt einer Dynamik, die der Papst mit einem entschlossenen Aufruf entfacht und der byzantinische Kaiser mit populistischen Gräuelgeschichten aufgeheizt hatte. Die Angegriffenen waren von der Brutalität der Angreifer überrascht, die Angreifer überwältigt von der Schönheit der Städte und der Unwirtlichkeit von Klima und Natur. Doch das Blatt sollte sich im Lauf der Kreuzfahrerzeit mehrfach wenden und die Unstimmigkeiten nicht nur zwischen Christen und Muslimen zunehmen. Was zählte der gemeinsame Glaube, wenn es um Gold und Macht ging? Dan Jones erzählt die Geschichte aus Sicht der Päpste, Könige und Sultane, lässt arabische Dichter, byzantinische Prinzessinnen und sunnitische Gelehrte zu Wort kommen und vergisst nie die einfachen Menschen dies- und jenseits der Frontlinien: ein faszinierend vielfältiges und zutiefst menschliches Bild einer blutigen Epoche."

Dan Jones (Author), Stefan Kaminsky (Narrator)

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Lion Hearts: the richly drawn, action-packed historical adventure from the Sunday Times bestseller

"Bloomsbury presents Lion Hearts by Dan Jones, read by Ben Miles including a bonus interview with author Dan Jones and actor Genevieve Gaunt. THE GREATEST FIGHTERS HAVE EVERYTHING TO LOSE 1350 Three years on from the Siege of Calais: The Black Death has wreaked havoc in Europe. The Castilians are moving against England. The Essex Dogs have scattered. In Winchelsea, Loveday struggles to keep his tavern afloat in the aftermath of the Death. Nowadays, the only battles he fights are the ones within his own mind. In Windsor, Romford thrives as a squire at King Edward III’s court, his days as an archer fading into memory. But when an unpaid debt threatens everything he’s built, Romford must call upon the lessons he learned all those years ago: be cunning. Be ruthless. Be quick. With England still reeling from the Death and the Castilian threat on the rise, the kingdom's future has never been more uncertain. Each had reasons for leaving the Essex Dogs behind. But a life like that isn’t so easily forgotten. And for these men the fighting isn’t over yet… The thrilling, unmissable conclusion to the Essex Dogs trilogy by Sunday Times bestselling historian, Dan Jones. Praise for THE ESSEX DOGS trilogy 'Wolves of Winter is a horrible joy to read: horrible because of the vivid, random bloodshed, and a joy because of the easy authenticity of his prose... If you've ever enjoyed a Ridley Scott film, go and buy this book!' ALICE WINN 'Dan Jones' fiction rings with the authority of his scholarly history.' PHILIPPA GREGORY 'A book that draws you in page by page. The way Dan Jones writes enemies reminds me of Cornwell at his best, turning up tension click by click.' CONN IGGULDEN 'This is the Hundred Years' War as directed by Oliver Stone with a historian's eye for detail.' ELODIE HARPER 'Battle-bloody, brutal and perfectly pitched.' DAILY MAIL C 2025 Dan Jones P 2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC"

Dan Jones (Author), Ben Miles (Narrator)

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Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter

"Bloomsbury present Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter, written and read by Dan Jones. A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled barons in a meadow by the river Thames named Runnymede. Beset by foreign crisis and domestic rebellion, King John was fast running out of options. On 15 June he reluctantly agreed to fix his regal seal to a document that would change the world. A milestone in the development of constitutional politics and the rule of law, the 'Great Charter' established an Englishman's right to Habeas Corpus and set limits to the exercise of royal power. For the first time a group of subjects had forced an English king to agree to a document that limited his powers by law and protected their rights. Dan Jones's elegant and authoritative narrative of the making and legacy of Magna Carta is amplified by profiles of the barons who secured it and a full text of the charter in both Latin and English. C 2024 Ken Bruen P 2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC"

Dan Jones (Author), Dan Jones (Narrator)

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Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King

"Bloomsbury presents Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King, written and read by Dan Jones. Nominated for Best Audiobook: Non-Fiction at The Speakies (The British Audio Awards) A brand-new life of England’s greatest king from our bestselling medieval historian 'A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.' Observer Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was a model king for his successors. Shakespeare’s version of Henry V saw his youthful folly redirected to sober statesmanship, and in the dark days of World War II, Henry’s victories in France were recounted in British propaganda. Churchill called Henry ‘a gleam of splendour in the dark, troubled story of medieval England’, while for one modern medievalist, Henry was, quite simply, ‘the greatest man who ever ruled England’. For Dan Jones, Henry is one of the most intriguing characters in all medieval history, but one of the hardest to pin down. He was a hardened, sometimes brutal, warrior, yet he was also creative and artistic, with a bookish temperament. He was a leader who made many mistakes, who misjudged his friends and family members, yet always seemed to triumph when it mattered. As king, he saved a shattered country from economic ruin, put down rebellions and secured England’s borders; in foreign diplomacy, he made England a serious player once more. Yet through his conquests in northern France, he sowed the seeds for three generations of calamity at home, in the form of the Wars of the Roses. Dan Jones’s life of Henry V provides unprecedented insight into the critical first 26 years of his life before he became king. Both a standalone biography and a completion of Dan’s sequence of English medieval histories that began with The Plantagenets and The Hollow Crown, Henry V is a thrilling and unmissable life of England’s greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian. C 2024 Dan Jones P 2024 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC"

Dan Jones (Author), Dan Jones (Narrator)

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[German] - Essex Dogs: Roman

"Juli 1346: Zehn Söldner gehen an der Küste der Normandie an Land und sichern als Vorhut die Flotte des englischen Königs. Der Krieg um den französischen Thron beginnt. Für die Essex Dogs wird es ein Kampf ums Überleben, um Zusammenhalt, gegen die Gespenster der Vergangenheit, während das Heer mordend und brandschatzend der großen Schlacht bei Crécy entgegenzieht. Pismire ist klein und kann überall durchschlüpfen. Scotsman, der Größte, kann Wände einreißen. Der Steinmetz Millstone ist zu allem bereit, um die anderen zu beschützen. Für den abgedrehten Priester Father ist der Krieg zum Lebenselixier geworden. Romford, der Jüngste, kann gut mit dem Bogen schießen, wird aber zum Pagendienst beim ebenfalls erst sechzehn Jahre alten Prinzen von Wales abkommandiert. Und Loveday, der kampferprobte Anführer, der seine Dogs heil nach England zurückbringen will, begegnet einer mysteriösen Frau, die ihn nicht mehr loslässt … Dan Jones hat mit den Essex Dogs zehn starke Charaktere geschaffen, die uns den Hundertjährigen Krieg hautnah miterleben lassen – von ganz unten, wo Schlamm, Blut, Hunger, Angst und unstillbare Sehnsucht herrschen, wo die Mächtigen als skrupellose, lächerliche Gestalten erscheinen und an jeder Ecke Gefahr lauert."

Dan Jones (Author), Stefan Kaminsky (Narrator)

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Wolves of Winter: Essex Dogs Trilogy, Book 2

"The epic, captivating and brutal follow-up to Essex Dogs by Sunday Times bestselling historian, Dan Jones, following the fortunes of ten ordinary soldiers in the early years of the Hundred Years' War. For the Dogs, the war has only just begun. Caught up in the siege of Calais, in the midst of a brutal eleven-month blockade of a small port on the French coast, they are no longer blindly walking into the unknown. But the men still have more questions than answers about what faces them – and why. What are they really fighting for? And why does the king care so much about taking such a small French town? The Dogs aren't paid to ask questions but in their work, they have the means to make people talk. Soon, their journey will reveal who really wants this war to last for a hundred years. And as the battle rages, they hear the first, faint, chesty rattle of a natural disaster that is sweeping towards the Dogs and their world . . . Spanning the siege city built outside Calais' walls, to the pirate ships patrolling the harbour, and into the dark corners of oligarchs' houses, where the deals that shape – and end – lives are made, this captivating and brutal story brings the 1300s effortlessly to life. About money, merchants and the mediaeval 'deep state', this is a must-read for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. Praise for the author: 'Oddly joyous – rolling action, fast-paced, a book that draws you in page by page. The way Dan Jones writes enemies reminds me of Cornwell at his best, turning up tension click by click.' CONN IGGULDEN 'A testosterone fulled, blood soaked rampage across the Middle Ages, this is the Hundred Years' War as directed by Oliver Stone with a historian's eye for detail' ELODIE HARPER 'A new champion has entered the front line of historical fiction to stand shoulder to shoulder with Bernard Cornwell.' JANE JOHNSON 'Battle-bloody, brutal and perfectly pitched.' DAILY MAIL 'With a cast of unforgettable characters, written with irrepressible verve.' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE"

Dan Jones (Author), Ben Miles (Narrator)

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[German] - Mächte und Throne: Eine neue Geschichte des Mittelalters

"Als das einst mächtige Römische Reich zerfiel und neue, «barbarische» Herrscher an die Macht kamen, begann im Westen Eurasiens eine tausendjährige Phase der Transformation. Dan Jones schlägt souverän Schneisen durch die ferne Welt der Könige und Königinnen, Päpste, Bauern, Mönche und Kreuzfahrer, Kaufleute, Künstler und Gelehrten. Sein fesselndes Buch verdichtet die Geschichte des Mittelalters in all ihrer Komplexität und auf dem neuesten Forschungsstand zu einer großen epischen Erzählung: ein Meisterwerk. Das Mittelalter ist von Augustin und Attila über den Propheten Mohammed, Dschingis Khan und Eleonore von Aquitanien bis hin zu Kolumbus und Luther mit großen Namen verbunden, aber es wurde mindestens ebenso stark von anonymen Kräften geformt, die uns bis heute beschäftigen: Veränderungen des Klimas, Seuchen, Vertreibungen und Migrationen, technologischen Revolutionen und Entdeckungen. Es war die Zeit, in der die großen Nationen entstanden, Grundsätze des Rechts und der Regierung kodifiziert wurden, die Kirchen als politische und moralische Machtfaktoren auftrumpften und Kunst, Architektur, Philosophie und Wissenschaften neu erfunden wurden. Dan Jones erzählt mit klarem Blick für das Wesentliche und mit Sinn für das vielsagende Detail, wie sich die Veränderungen mal still und leise, mal laut und gewaltsam vollzogen, und wirft so neues Licht auch auf den großen Umbruch, den wir heute erleben."

Dan Jones (Author), Omid-Paul Eftekhari (Narrator)

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The Templars

"Bloomsbury presents The Templars written and read by Dan Jones. Dan Jones narrates in his inimitably vivid and authoritative fashion the remarkable story of the Knights Templar. 'Exhilarating, epic, sword-swinging history' TLS 'Jones is certainly an entertainer, but also a fine historian who knows how to render serious scholarship into accessible prose' The Times 'Another triumphant tale from a historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist' Observer ‘When it comes to rip-roaring medieval narratives, Jones has few peers, and in the Templars he finds the perfect subject' Sunday Times The Knights Templar were the wealthiest, most powerful – and most secretive – of the military orders that flourished in the crusading era. Their story – encompassing as it does the greatest international conflict of the Middle Ages, a network of international finance, a swift rise in wealth and influence followed by a bloody and humiliating fall – has left a comet's tail of mystery that continues to fascinate and inspire historians, novelists and conspiracy theorists."

Dan Jones (Author), Dan Jones (Narrator)

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Essex Dogs

"Globally bestselling historian Dan Jones makes his historical fiction debut with Essex Dogs, the explosive first instalment in an epic new trilogy set during the Hundred Years War. July 1346. The Hundred Years' War has begun, and King Edward and his lords are on the march through France. But this war belongs to the men on the ground. Swept up in the bloody chaos, a tight-knit company from Essex must stay alive long enough to see their home again. With sword, mace and longbow, the Essex Dogs will fight, from the landing beaches of Normandy to the bloodsoaked field of Crécy. There's Pismire, small enough to infiltrate enemy camps. Scotsman, strong enough to tear down a wall. Millstone, a stonemason who'll do anything to protect his men. Father, a priest turned devilish by the horrors of war. Romford, a talented young archer on the run from his past. And Loveday Fitztalbot, their battle-scarred captain, who just wants to get his boys home safe. Some men fight for glory. Others fight for coin. The Essex Dogs? They fight for each other. Praise for Dan Jones: 'Jones is certainly an entertainer, but also a fine historian' The Times 'When it comes to rip-roaring medieval narratives, Jones has few peers' Sunday Times 'Dan Jones writes with pace, wit and insight' Helen Castor"

Dan Jones (Author), Ben Miles (Narrator)

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The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings

"A chilling medieval ghost story, retold by bestselling historian Dan Jones. One winter, in the dark days of King Richard II, a tailor was riding home on the road from Gilling to Ampleforth. It was dank, wet and gloomy; he couldn't wait to get home and sit in front of a blazing fire. Then, out of nowhere, the tailor is knocked off his horse by a raven, who then transforms into a hideous dog, his mouth writhing with its own innards. The dog issues the tailor with a warning: he must go to a priest and ask for absolution and return to the road, or else there will be consequences... First recorded in the early fifteenth century by an unknown monk, The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings was transcribed from the Latin by the great medievalist M.R. James in 1922. Building on that tradition, now bestselling historian Dan Jones retells this medieval ghost story in crisp and creepy prose."

Dan Jones (Author), Dan Jones (Narrator)

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