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Both in her novels and her memoirs, Daphne du Maurier revealed an ardent desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries she kept between 1920 and 1932, du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her...

Three gifted siblings bound by a troubled upbringing navigate fame, scandal, and co-dependent relationships, revealing how their emotional dependence on one another both sustains and ultimately threatens to destroy them. When people play the game: Name three or four persons whom you would choose...

The story of a deadly curse that afflicted an Irish family for a hundred years from the renowned author of the classic gothic bestselling romance, Rebecca. "I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten . . . but this hill will be standing still to...

A disillusioned young man drifts through Europe in search of meaning, only to confront the loss of innocence and the sobering realities of adulthood after a series of aimless adventures and relationships. "A magician, a virtuoso. She can conjure up tragedy, horror, tension, suspense, the...

Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cozy existence she shares with her grandmother, an eccentric retired actress known to all as Madam, has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbor. As the two women piece together...

The classic debut novel by the author of Rebecca following the generations of an English family coping in an era of profound change. "Daphne du Maurier has no equal." —Sunday Telegraph Born at the turn of the twentieth century in Cornwall, Janet Coombe longs to share in the excitement of...

Rebecca was one of Daphne du Maurier's greatest bestsellers. It has been read all around the world, and in many different languages. The book has been adapted for the theater, film, television, and even opera. Now Daphne du Maurier reveals how it came to be written: its origins, its development...

A quiet Englishman visiting an Italian city becomes entangled with his enigmatic brother, whose obsessive ambition to revive a dark historical legacy leads to manipulation, betrayal, and a tragic confrontation. "In du Maurier's fiction, she unflinchingly exposed hard truths." —Times (UK) As a...

A gothic tale of old souls bonded in a fated romance, and the one man who could save them, from the bestselling author of Rebecca. "Daphne du Maurier has no rival." —Sunday Telegraph (UK) A spellbinding love story, Castle Dor was the unfinished last novel of the British novelist Sir Arthur...

Daphne du Maurier explores the troubled life of Branwell Brontë, delving into his artistic ambitions, self-destructive habits, and the psychological and familial pressures that led to his downfall. "Miss du Maurier has brought to the art of the biography the narrative urgency which gives such...

A collection of suspenseful stories exploring ordinary people pushed to emotional extremes where hidden fears and moral tensions erupt into life-altering decisions, from the bestselling author of Rebecca. "Her peerless craftmanship, her eerie sense of the macabre, her gift for sheer story...

A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's novel about a twisted man will take readers on a journey through history from the perspective of a cruel individual. Julius Lévy has grown up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught up in the...

A "consistently entertaining" saga of beauty, war, and family set during the French Revolution, from the author of Rebecca and The Birds (New York Times). The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, its own language — and its own rules. "If you marry into glass," Pierre Labbe warns...

Step into a world where memory glows like warm lamplight and the past feels close enough to touch. Yesterday Blue is a tender, atmospheric novel that blends 70s coastal nostalgia with the quiet ache of adulthood, capturing the soft, golden moments that shape us long after they’ve passed. Through Lily’s eyes, listeners drift between the innocence of youth and the bittersweet beauty of second chances. The story moves with the rhythm of ocean tides — gentle, steady, full of emotion — as old friends reconnect over warm dinners, soft conversations, and the kind of memories that never truly fade.

On a trip to the South of France, a shy young woman falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband's home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim, and the young bride is filled with dread. Friendless in the isolated mansion, she realises that she barely knows him. In every corner of every room is the phantom of his beautiful first wife, Rebecca, and the new Mrs de Winter walks in her shadow.

Nine months ago, I had one perfect, reckless night with Jasper Lawrence, the tall, tattooed firefighter who made me feel fearless. I told myself it was a mistake I’d never repeat. Then he finds me at the Maple Festival… in labor with our surprise baby. The best part? I had no idea I was pregnant. Now Jasper is everywhere. The two of us stumble through new parenthood together. And he doesn’t just step up, he moves in. Almost. He pitches a tent in my backyard and sleeps outside so he’s never far away from us. He’s a shirtless, helpful menace who cooks, cleans, and cuddles our son.

Rare books librarian Juniper Blume treats every researcher’s question like a mini-mystery to solve. However, no inquiry compares to her ex-brother-in-law Rory begging for her help in finding the Book of Kells’ long-lost covers. He claims they are in a southern Maryland cemetery. Juniper is not sure how the bejeweled covers of a ninth-century European masterwork could have ended up there, but she’s curious enough to find out. Juniper hops in her vintage Karmann Ghia convertible with her dog Clover and heads to the former resort town of Rose Mallow, on the western coast of the Chesapeake Bay. 

This collection showcases the budding talent and fierce imagination of Daphne du Maurier, before she went on to write one of the most beloved novels of all time. In these tales of human frailty and obsession, a waterlogged notebook washes ashore, revealing a dark story of jealousy and passion; a vicar coaches a young couple divided by class issues, and an older man falls perilously in love with a much younger woman. Each tale demonstrates du Maurier's extraordinary storytelling gifts and her deep understanding of human nature.

The fourteen haunting stories in this collection span the whole of Daphne du Maurier's writing career and explore every human emotion: an apparently happily married woman commits suicide; a steamer in wartime is rescued by a mysterious sailing-ship; a dull husband breaks loose in a surprising fashion; a con woman plays her game once too often; and a famous novelist looks for romance, only to meet with bitter disappointment.

Rebecca: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . . The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of...