Daphne du Maurier Books

Rebecca

By: Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by: Anna Massey
Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

“Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier is my go-to rainy day book. Despite the ambiguity gothic novels thrive on, the characters in Rebecca were fully fleshed out and the haunted manor is beautifully described. It's slow moving at first, but once the tension builds, you'll have a hard time putting it down. Read more

Don't Look Now

and Other Stories

By: Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren, James Langton & Michael Sinclair
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely schoolmaster is impelled to investigate a mysterious American couple. A young woman loses her cool when she confronts her father's old friend on a lonely island. A party of British pilgrims meet strange phenomena and possible disaster in the Holy Land. A... Read more

The Birds

and Other Stories

By: Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren, James Langton, Barbara Rosenblat & Michael Sinclair
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of 'Monte Veritv?' promises immortality, but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her... Read more

The King's General

By: Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

A classic work of historical fiction from the author of Rebecca and The Birds.

Honor Harris is only eighteen when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud, reckless — and utterly captivating. But following a riding accident, Honor must reconcile herself to a life alone. As the English Civil war is waged across the country, Richard rises through... Read more

The Scapegoat

By: Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by: Paul Shelley
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

By chance, John and Jean -- one English, the other French -- meet in a provincial railway station. Their resemblance to each other is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John falls into a drunken stupor. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes, Jean has stolen his identity and... Read more

Mary Anne

By: Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by: Carole Boyd
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

She set men's hearts on fire and scandalized a country.

An ambitious, stunning, and seductive young woman, Mary Anne finds the single most rewarding way to rise above her station: she will become the mistress to a royal duke. In doing so, she provokes a scandal that rocks Regency England.

A vivd portrait of sex, ambition, and corruption, Mary... Read more

Frenchman's Creek

By: Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by: John Castle
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

This "highly personalized adventure, ultra-romantic" story tells the tale of a woman looking for adventure, only to find it in the arms a rebellious criminal (New York Times).
Bored and restless in London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside with her restlessness and thirst for adventure as her only... Read more

The House on the Strand

By: Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by: Ron Keith
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research.

When Dick samples Magnus's potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into... Read more

My Cousin Rachel

By: Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by: Jonathan Pryce
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Daphne du Maurier's classic novel of lust, suspicion, and obsession that inspired major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin.

Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, and Philip grows to love Ambrose's grand estate as much... Read more

Jamaica Inn

By: Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by: Tony Britton
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

From the author of Rebecca and The Birds: a classic thriller of shipwreck and murder, "rich in suspense and surprise" (New York Times Book Review). 

On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo... Read more

The Doll

The Lost Short Stories

By: Daphne Du Maurier
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

“Du Maurier is in a class by herself.”
—New York TimesPerhaps best known for her immortal gothic masterwork Rebecca—the basis for the Academy Award-winning motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock—Daphne de Maurier began her illustrious writing career penning short stories. In The Doll, thirteen of du Maurier’s early shorter fictional works... Read more

The Birds

By: Daphne du Maurier & BBC
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 56 minutes

Here is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of horror. The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to a farm from her house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field while above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed an idea about the birds... Read more