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You Left Early
- A True Story of Love and Alcohol
- By: Louisa Young
- Narrated by: Louisa Young
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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This brutal, beautiful memoir from award-winning novelist Louisa Young is a heartbreaking portrayal of love, grief and the merciless grip of addiction....
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A masterpiece.
- By susie on 28-07-18
By: Louisa Young
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Alan Bennett: Diaries
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Alan Bennett is one of the country's most celebrated and best-loved authors. This is an unmissable collection of diaries and memoirs from the acclaimed English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter....
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Enchanting and wickedly observant
- By J.K. Watson on 09-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
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Women Like Us
- A Memoir
- By: Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Amanda Prowse has built a bestselling career on the lives of fictional women. Now she turns the pen on her own life....
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STUNNING!
- By Joanna on 31-10-22
By: Amanda Prowse
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Goodbye to All That
- By: Robert Graves
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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A famous autobiographical account of life as a young soldier in the first World War trenches....
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Lots missing
- By Chloe on 08-05-16
By: Robert Graves
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Don't Panic
- Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Neil Gaiman
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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First published in 1986 and updated several times since, Don’t Panic is in an in-depth exploration of Douglas Adams’s cultural phenomenon The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy....
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Facts for fun but far from from fun
- By LENGTHIAN on 18-05-21
By: Neil Gaiman
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Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes
- The Official Biography
- By: Rob Wilkins
- Narrated by: Rob Wilkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong....
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Sad, dignified, and humorous
- By Lynne Nicholson on 03-10-22
By: Rob Wilkins
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You Left Early
- A True Story of Love and Alcohol
- By: Louisa Young
- Narrated by: Louisa Young
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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This brutal, beautiful memoir from award-winning novelist Louisa Young is a heartbreaking portrayal of love, grief and the merciless grip of addiction....
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A masterpiece.
- By susie on 28-07-18
By: Louisa Young
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Alan Bennett: Diaries
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Alan Bennett is one of the country's most celebrated and best-loved authors. This is an unmissable collection of diaries and memoirs from the acclaimed English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter....
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Enchanting and wickedly observant
- By J.K. Watson on 09-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
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Women Like Us
- A Memoir
- By: Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Amanda Prowse has built a bestselling career on the lives of fictional women. Now she turns the pen on her own life....
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STUNNING!
- By Joanna on 31-10-22
By: Amanda Prowse
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Goodbye to All That
- By: Robert Graves
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Abridged
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A famous autobiographical account of life as a young soldier in the first World War trenches....
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Lots missing
- By Chloe on 08-05-16
By: Robert Graves
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Don't Panic
- Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Neil Gaiman
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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First published in 1986 and updated several times since, Don’t Panic is in an in-depth exploration of Douglas Adams’s cultural phenomenon The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy....
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Facts for fun but far from from fun
- By LENGTHIAN on 18-05-21
By: Neil Gaiman
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Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes
- The Official Biography
- By: Rob Wilkins
- Narrated by: Rob Wilkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong....
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Sad, dignified, and humorous
- By Lynne Nicholson on 03-10-22
By: Rob Wilkins
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A Prison Diary
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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On July 19, 2001, Jeffrey Archer - international best selling author - is sentenced to four years in prison for perjury...
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Not the full story
- By Cromwell on 01-05-15
By: Jeffrey Archer
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Walden
- Life in the Woods
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Alec Sand
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life describes his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years....
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Give it a try
- By Amazon Customer on 29-12-18
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On Writers and Writing
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities....
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Disappointing
- By TDP on 22-02-21
By: Margaret Atwood
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
- Revised and Expanded edition
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter - editor, Christopher Tolkien - editor
- Narrated by: Samuel West, Mike Grady, Chris Smith
- Length: 29 hrs and 2 mins
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The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.....
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Insightful and beautiful
- By Paul skinner on 07-04-24
By: J. R. R. Tolkien, and others
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Ghostland
- In Search of a Haunted Country
- By: Edward Parnell
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In his late 30s, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy....
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Im not sure what kind of book this is.
- By Wren on 27-01-20
By: Edward Parnell
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C. S. Lewis - A Life
- Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
- By: Alister E. McGrath
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of C. S. Lewis' death, celebrated Oxford don Dr. Alister McGrath presents us with a compelling and definitive portrait of the life of C. S. Lewis....
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Thorough and well written
- By RA on 23-07-15
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Hell's Angels
- By: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Sébastien Desjours
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Au début des années soixante, Thompson, alors journaliste à San Francisco, est fasciné par les Hell's Angels. Son article sur ces seigneurs de...
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i had no idea that it was the french version
- By Anonymous User on 12-04-21
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Purgatory
- A Prison Diary 2
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Long days of boredom in confinement, the general inefficiency of prison bureaucracy and a critically over-stretched prison service. The...
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it’s just not cricket
- By StephanieH on 07-12-21
By: Jeffrey Archer
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Letter to My Daughter
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....
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a love letter.
- By Anonymous User on 17-05-20
By: Maya Angelou
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
- By: James Boswell
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 51 hrs and 2 mins
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The book is full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization, and paints a vivid picture of 18th-century London, peopled by prominent personalities of the time....
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A peerless biography
- By Peter on 10-12-18
By: James Boswell
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Changer : Méthode
- By: Édouard Louis
- Narrated by: Christophe Montenez
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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"Changer : méthode" est le récit d'une vie, le parcours douloureux et difficile d’un transfuge de classe pour s’extraire de son milieu...
By: Édouard Louis
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A Moveable Feast
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: James Naughton
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works....
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Amazing narration!
- By Suhair on 06-06-13
By: Ernest Hemingway
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Elizabeth Jane Howard
- A Dangerous Innocence
- By: Artemis Cooper
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her....
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Superb!
- By Richard H on 01-08-20
By: Artemis Cooper
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Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Read by Alan Bennett
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs
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Funny, thoughtful, and fascinating, this wonderful series of essays and stories read by the author offers an extraordinary journey into an exceptional career of an award-winning writer....
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Liked
- By Janie on 18-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
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Love In Old Age
- My Year in the Wight House
- By: Hunter Davies
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The Isle of Wight: in the summers of the 1800s, Queen Victoria holidayed here. At music festivals in the summer of love, hundreds of thousands...
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Boring
- By Mary Barlow on 26-02-23
By: Hunter Davies
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Sun and Steel
- By: Yukio Mishima
- Narrated by: Matthew Taylor
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known - and controversial - writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end, fits into none of them....
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Terrific book - a classic. Ruined by the narrator
- By JB on 03-11-21
By: Yukio Mishima
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Kaffee und Zigaretten
- By: Ferdinand von Schirach
- Narrated by: Lars Eidinger
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Ferdinand von Schirachs neues Buch verwebt autobiographische Erzählungen, paradoxe Aperçus, Betrachtungen und Reflexionen zu...
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
- By: Paula Byrne
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This brilliant biography, brimming with Pym’s private diaries and intimate letters, offers a first full insight into Barbara Pym’s life and how it informed her writing....
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Excellent Woman
- By Dan Smith on 03-05-21
By: Paula Byrne
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Laurie Lee: A BBC Radio Collection
- Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning & More
- By: Laurie Lee
- Narrated by: Laurie Lee, Tim McInnerny, Niamh Cusack, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Laurie Lee was a poet, novelist and screenwriter renowned for his bestselling autobiographical trilogy Cider With Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War. Included here are dramatisations of the first two volumes, alongside a radio play and four interview programmes....
By: Laurie Lee
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Salman Rushdie at the 92nd Street Y
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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Mr. Rushdie reads from his newest novel, Shalimar the Clown....
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Very interesting.
- By Steven Waite on 15-04-21
By: Salman Rushdie
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The Education of a Coach
- By: David Halberstam
- Narrated by: Tom Stechshulte
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam's best seller takes you inside the football genius of Bill Belichick for an insightful profile in leadership. Bill Belichick's thirty-one years in the NFL have been marked by amazing success - most recently with the New England Patriots....
By: David Halberstam
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
- By: James Boswell
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 32 hrs and 48 mins
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This book is considered by many to be the finest literary biography ever published....
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Computer generated voice ?
- By Keith on 18-05-10
By: James Boswell
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Existentialism and Excess
- The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre
- By: Gary Cox
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the undisputed giants of 20th-century philosophy....
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Excellent audiobook
- By Justice Peace on 12-10-16
By: Gary Cox
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Manderley Forever
- A Biography of Daphne du Maurier
- By: Tatiana de Rosnay
- Narrated by: Charlotte Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Manderley Forever is a vividly compelling portrait and celebration of an intriguing, hugely popular and (at the time) critically underrated writer....
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Disappointing!
- By anasta on 22-08-17
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William Wordsworth: The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Author
- Great Author Biographies
- By: The History Journals, Liam Dale
- Narrated by: Liam Dale
- Length: 42 mins
- Unabridged
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There are few amongst us who have not heard of the great romantic poet William Wordsworth, an artist who has for centuries, enchanted his readers with his eloquent verse and magnificent imagery. As a man who reveled in the beauty of nature, his love of the natural world shines through his stirring words, while all the while he attempted to unveil the hidden magic of the countryside.
By: The History Journals, and others
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Mnemonic Phantasms
- By: Ava Silica
- Narrated by: Luigi Pascal Rondanini
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever wondered about the deep-sea depths of unorthodox, unclassifiable stories that most ghostwriters take to their graves unseen? The kind of tales that straddle realities and make you second-guess the line between fact and fabulist fiction? If so, Mnemonic Phantasms is the deliciously twisted tell-all you've been waiting for. In this daring anthology, an anonymous ghostwriter exposes some of the most bizarre, mind-bending client requests they've encountered over decades of sculpting prose in the shadows.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and creator of the Little Prince: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
By: George Fritsche
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Rudyard Kipling - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 4 mins
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Rudyard Kipling, India-born Britishman and nobel prize laureate: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
By: George Fritsche
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Joseph Roth - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
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Joseph Roth, literary genius and tragic figure: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
By: George Fritsche
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The Book-Makers
- A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
- By: Adam Smyth
- Narrated by: Adam Smyth
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.
By: Adam Smyth
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William Wordsworth: The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Author
- Great Author Biographies
- By: The History Journals, Liam Dale
- Narrated by: Liam Dale
- Length: 42 mins
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There are few amongst us who have not heard of the great romantic poet William Wordsworth, an artist who has for centuries, enchanted his readers with his eloquent verse and magnificent imagery. As a man who reveled in the beauty of nature, his love of the natural world shines through his stirring words, while all the while he attempted to unveil the hidden magic of the countryside.
By: The History Journals, and others
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Mnemonic Phantasms
- By: Ava Silica
- Narrated by: Luigi Pascal Rondanini
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
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Have you ever wondered about the deep-sea depths of unorthodox, unclassifiable stories that most ghostwriters take to their graves unseen? The kind of tales that straddle realities and make you second-guess the line between fact and fabulist fiction? If so, Mnemonic Phantasms is the deliciously twisted tell-all you've been waiting for. In this daring anthology, an anonymous ghostwriter exposes some of the most bizarre, mind-bending client requests they've encountered over decades of sculpting prose in the shadows.
By: Ava Silica
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and creator of the Little Prince: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
By: George Fritsche
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Rudyard Kipling - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Rudyard Kipling, India-born Britishman and nobel prize laureate: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
By: George Fritsche
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Joseph Roth - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
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Joseph Roth, literary genius and tragic figure: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
By: George Fritsche
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The Book-Makers
- A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
- By: Adam Smyth
- Narrated by: Adam Smyth
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.
By: Adam Smyth
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Jules Verne - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 4 mins
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Jules Verne, French author and inventor of science fiction: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
By: George Fritsche
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Knife
- Meditations After an Attempted Murder
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is a gripping, intimate, and ultimately life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art - and finding the strength to stand up again.
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Honesty. Brilliance.
- By Lynne Suo on 16-04-24
By: Salman Rushdie
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Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life
- Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life
- By: Joseph Epstein
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies—those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams—were justified by their authors living in interesting times, harboring radically new ideas, or participating in great events. Joseph Epstein qualifies on none of these counts. His life has been quiet, lucky in numerous ways, and far from dramatic. But it has also been emblematic of the great changes in our country since World War II. Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life is an intimate look at one life steeped in radical change.
By: Joseph Epstein
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Ghosted
- An American Story
- By: Nancy French
- Narrated by: Nancy French
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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A compelling, thought-provoking memoir about Nancy French's journey from her family's mountain roots to success as a ghostwriter, only to be rejected by her party, church, and community. Ghosted by New York Times bestselling author Nancy French is for all who were alienated by those closest to them and left spiritually and politically homeless.
By: Nancy French
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Leo Tolstoy - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
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Leo Tolstoy, Russian nobleman and most famous author: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
By: George Fritsche
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Muse of Fire
- World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
- By: Michael Korda
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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With Muse of Fire, Michael Korda, the bestselling author of Alone and Hero, takes a novel approach to World War I by telling its history through the lives of the soldier-poets whose verses memorialize the war's unimaginable horrors. He begins with Rupert Brooke and the halcyon days before violence engulfed his generation—destroying the self-contented world of Edwardian England—and ends with the tragic death of Wilfred Owen, killed only days before the armistice brought an end to a war that took over 25,000,000 lives.
By: Michael Korda
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Agatha Christie - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
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Agatha Christie, British queen of crime novels: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
By: George Fritsche
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Everything Must Go
- The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
- By: Dorian Lynskey
- Narrated by: Dorian Lynskey
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Baillie Gifford and Orwell Prize longlisted author of The Ministry of Truth comes an equally original and revealing exploration of one of the central concerns of our times: fantasies and nightmares of the end of the world, from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man to the Manic Street Preachers’ Everything Must Go.
By: Dorian Lynskey
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J.R.R. Tolkien
- The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Author
- By: Liam Dale
- Narrated by: Liam Dale
- Length: 42 mins
- Unabridged
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There are some names that just fall off the tongue with the lilting promise of great things, and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (usually abbreviated to JRR Tolkien) is a perfect example. In his own lifetime this softly spoken, pipe smoking, tweed clad Oxford College Professor, the quintessential Englishman, caused a tremendous stir when he wrote first “The Hobbit” and then “The Lord of the Rings”.
By: Liam Dale
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Rural Hours
- The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
- By: Harriet Baker
- Narrated by: Harriet Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman’s cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941. Rosamond Lehmann settles in a Berkshire village, seeking a lovers’ retreat, a refuge from war, and a means of becoming ‘a writer again’. Rural Hours tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the country and were forever changed by it.
By: Harriet Baker
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Plan B
- Further Thoughts on Faith
- By: Anne Lamott
- Narrated by: Anne Lamott
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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As Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place. Terrorism and war have become the new normal. Environmental devastation looms even closer. And there are personal demands on her faith as well – getting older; her mother's Alzheimer's; her son's adolescence and the passing of friends and time. Fortunately for those of us who are anxious about the state of the world, whose parents are also aging and dying, whose children are growing harder to recognise as they become teenagers, Plan B offers hope that we're not alone in the midst of despair.
By: Anne Lamott
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The Brothers Grimm
- The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Authors
- By: Liam Dale
- Narrated by: Liam Dale
- Length: 39 mins
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There is no one, the whole world over, who doesn’t enjoy a good story, and many of our best-loved traditional tales have been passed down through countless generations to the present day. This is especially true of the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, including such classics as “The Elves and the Shoemaker”, “Cinderella”, “Hansel and Gretel” and “Snow White”.
By: Liam Dale