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On Writers and Writing
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- Unabridged
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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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A wonderful listen
- By Nina Lloyd on 26-03-24
By: J. R. R. Tolkien, and others
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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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Dickensland
- The Curious History of Dickens's London
- By: Lee Jackson
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years....
By: Lee Jackson
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Alan Bennett: Diaries
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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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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On Writers and Writing
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- Unabridged
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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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A wonderful listen
- By Nina Lloyd on 26-03-24
By: J. R. R. Tolkien, and others
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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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Dickensland
- The Curious History of Dickens's London
- By: Lee Jackson
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years....
By: Lee Jackson
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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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Hell
- A Prison Diary 1
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Prisoner FF8282 gazes out from confinement on what he deems must be a glorious summer’s day, rays of sunlight bursting through the barred...
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When the Hell?
- By arvis on 09-12-21
By: Jeffrey Archer
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Dry
- A Memoir
- By: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants...
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listened twice. love it.
- By G M F on 12-04-18
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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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A Moveable Feast
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: James Naughton
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Wanderers
- A History of Women Walking
- By: Kerri Andrews, Kathleen Jamie - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Lauren Baldwin
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps....
By: Kerri Andrews, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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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The World of Yesterday
- Memoirs of a European
- By: Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell - translator
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars....
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The Brink of Destruction
- By Rachel Redford on 26-07-17
By: Stefan Zweig, and others
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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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Heaven
- A Prison Diary 3
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A flicker of light almost appears at the end of the tunnel for prisoner FF8282, as he is transferred to North Sea Camp near Boston...
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Brilliant
- By "supersapper" on 01-01-22
By: Jeffrey Archer
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A Letter to My Father
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered....
By: Franz Kafka
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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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Death in the Afternoon
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport....
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Unmissable if you have an interest in the subject
- By Charly on 25-06-11
By: Ernest Hemingway
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Letter to My Daughter
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Mad About Shakespeare
- From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room
- By: Jonathan Bate
- Narrated by: Jonathan Bate
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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From the acclaimed and best-selling biographer Jonathan Bate comes a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives....
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Inspiring and Moving
- By Not Bob on 05-07-23
By: Jonathan Bate
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The Frood
- The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- By: Jem Roberts
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Douglas Adams is one of the most celebrated science fiction and comedy writers of his generation....
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Illuminating and entertaining
- By Nemo on 01-08-20
By: Jem Roberts
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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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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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'n Baie lang brief aan my dogter [A Very Long Letter to My Daughter]
- By: Marita van der Vyver
- Narrated by: Joanie Combrink
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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’n Baie lang brief aan my dogter is Marita van der Vyver, een van Afrikaans se mees geliefde skrywers, se ontroerende jeugmemoires....
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Baie goed!
- By Anonymous User on 28-04-23
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A Woman in Arabia
- The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
- By: Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell - introduction, Georgina Howell - editor
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas, Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the 20th century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford....
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Beautiful book and listen
- By Firas on 12-11-20
By: Gertrude Bell, and others
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
- Douglas Adams and the Digital World
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Douglas Adams, Mitch Benn
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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Technology affects almost everything we do, and its possibilities can be both exhilarating and daunting. This collection features two radio documentaries exploring Douglas Adams’ vision of the digital future, plus Did Douglas Get It Right?, presented by Mitch Benn....
By: Douglas Adams
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Oscar Wilde
- By: Frank Harris
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Frank Harris, a journalist and editor, delighted in Oscar Wilde's genial wit and self-assurance....
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Fascinating and highly informative.
- By Mr. B on 01-10-14
By: Frank Harris
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The Baby on the Fire Escape
- Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
- By: Julie Phillips
- Narrated by: Marnye Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge....
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Such a great book for creative mothers
- By Anonymous User on 15-01-24
By: Julie Phillips
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To Throw Away Unopened
- By: Viv Albertine
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic....
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A read again and again book!
- By Sarah Power on 18-01-19
By: Viv Albertine
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JK Rowling
- And the Birth of Harry Potter
- By: Liam Dale
- Narrated by: Liam Dale
- Length: 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Once upon a time, as all good stories with happy endings begin, a penniless young mother walked the streets of Edinburgh with her beloved baby daughter, hoping to make her fortune. In truth, “fortune” is probably over-exaggerating; enough money to feed and clothe the two of them and put a decent roof over their heads was all this young mother asked, but it was proving to be incredibly difficult.
By: Liam Dale
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If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry
- How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For
- By: Molly Stillman, Kristin Hannah - foreword
- Narrated by: Molly Stillman, Lisa Larsen
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Molly Stillman has lived the type of life that when shared, people stop in their tracks and ask “Wait, what happened?” Molly’s mother, Lynda Van Devanter Buckley, served as an Army nurse during the Vietnam War and wrote the bestselling memoir Home Before Morning. When Molly was seventeen, Lynda passed away after an eight-year battle with an autoimmune disorder due to her exposure to Agent Orange.
By: Molly Stillman, and others
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Günter Grass - 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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Günter Grass, literary world star 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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I Heard Her Call My Name
- A memoir of transition
- By: Lucy Sante
- Narrated by: Lucy Sante
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Lucy Sante has often felt like an outsider. Born in Belgium to conservative Catholic working-class parents, she was transplanted to the United States without ever entirely settling here. But a feeling of home finally arrived when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s amidst her fellow bohemians. Through those electric years, some of her friends would die young, from drugs and AIDS, and others would become jarringly famous. Lucy flirted with both fates, on her way to building a glittering career as a writer. But she could never shake that feeling.
By: Lucy Sante
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Mary Shelley
- 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: 40 mins
- Unabridged
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It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its body.
By: The History Journals, and others
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Heinrich Böll - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Heinrich Böll, voice of the voiceless 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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JK Rowling
- And the Birth of Harry Potter
- By: Liam Dale
- Narrated by: Liam Dale
- Length: 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Once upon a time, as all good stories with happy endings begin, a penniless young mother walked the streets of Edinburgh with her beloved baby daughter, hoping to make her fortune. In truth, “fortune” is probably over-exaggerating; enough money to feed and clothe the two of them and put a decent roof over their heads was all this young mother asked, but it was proving to be incredibly difficult.
By: Liam Dale
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If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry
- How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For
- By: Molly Stillman, Kristin Hannah - foreword
- Narrated by: Molly Stillman, Lisa Larsen
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Molly Stillman has lived the type of life that when shared, people stop in their tracks and ask “Wait, what happened?” Molly’s mother, Lynda Van Devanter Buckley, served as an Army nurse during the Vietnam War and wrote the bestselling memoir Home Before Morning. When Molly was seventeen, Lynda passed away after an eight-year battle with an autoimmune disorder due to her exposure to Agent Orange.
By: Molly Stillman, and others
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Günter Grass - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Günter Grass, literary world star 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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I Heard Her Call My Name
- A memoir of transition
- By: Lucy Sante
- Narrated by: Lucy Sante
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Lucy Sante has often felt like an outsider. Born in Belgium to conservative Catholic working-class parents, she was transplanted to the United States without ever entirely settling here. But a feeling of home finally arrived when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s amidst her fellow bohemians. Through those electric years, some of her friends would die young, from drugs and AIDS, and others would become jarringly famous. Lucy flirted with both fates, on her way to building a glittering career as a writer. But she could never shake that feeling.
By: Lucy Sante
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Mary Shelley
- 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: 40 mins
- Unabridged
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It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its body.
By: The History Journals, and others
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Heinrich Böll - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Heinrich Böll, voice of the voiceless 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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Once upon a Villa
- Adventures on the French Riviera
- By: Andrew Kaplan
- Narrated by: Phillip Nathaniel Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In this wise, warm-hearted, witty, and LOL hilariously funny true account, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Kaplan tells what it’s like when he, his wife, and two-year-old son decided to chuck it all and live the fantasy in a villa by the sea in that extraordinary corner of the world–part international café society, part billionaires’ playground, part provincial France–that is the French Riviera.
By: Andrew Kaplan
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Some Eminent Women of the 19th Century
- By: Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- Narrated by: Lianne Walker
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Some Eminent Women of Our Times (which has been renamed Some Eminent Women of the 19th century) was written by Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett in 1889. It is available in the public domain and contains short biographies of various women who achieved great things both socially and in the literary field. The women Dame Millicent includes were singled out by her because of their unstinting dedication, selflessness, and in many cases bravery to do what they thought was right.
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A Rare Recording of John Steinbeck's 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature Speech
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: John Steinbeck
- Length: 6 mins
- Unabridged
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John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968), born in Salinas, CA, was an American writer who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception."
By: John Steinbeck
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A Rare Recording of John Cheever
- By: John Cheever
- Narrated by: John Cheever
- Length: 22 mins
- Unabridged
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John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 - June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Westchester suburbs, and old New England villages.
By: John Cheever
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The Long and Winding Road
- By: Lesley Pearse
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lacey
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Lesley Pearse didn't publish her first novel until she was 48. Now she has sold over ten million books around the world and is a constant presence on the bestseller chart. A writer of heart-stopping stories, Lesley's books are filled with heroines struggling to make it in a difficult world. Yet this description could apply to Lesley herself. In this, her first ever autobiography, she tells of growing up in an orphanage after her mother's death, her racy twenties in London during the swinging sixties and working as a bunny girl and dressmaker.
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wonderful
- By tracie 1943 on 03-03-24
By: Lesley Pearse
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Nerissa Bradley
- Length: 10 mins
- Unabridged
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How It Feels To Be Colored Me was first published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece that focuses on race and 1920s America, Hurston reflects on her early childhood in an all-black Florida town and her first experiences in life where she felt "different." Hurston focuses on the similarities we all share and on her own self-identity in the face of difference. "Through it all," she says, "I remain myself."
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Baltasar Gracián - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Baltasar Gracián, Spanish bestselling author and philosopher: 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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Erich Maria Remarque - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Erich Maria Remarque, world star of literature and sales giant: 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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A Single Desperate Prayer
- A Memoir
- By: Ludmila Ritz
- Narrated by: Natalie Teresh
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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More than a memoir, A Single Desperate Prayer is a riveting account of one resilient girl’s life in a Crimean ghetto, replete with equal amounts of tragedy and triumph. Told through the eyes of a child, the listener witnesses Ludmila’s growth and maturation as she starts from practically nothing, learns how to beg in the streets, loses all of what little she had, is left to the wolves, and then saved by grace—all before her fifteenth birthday.
By: Ludmila Ritz
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Hermann Hesse - A short biography
- By: 5 Minute Biographies, George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Hermann Hesse, world star of literature 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: 5 Minute Biographies, and others
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The Story Smuggler
- By: Georgi Gospodinov, Kristina Kovacheva - translator, Dan Gunn - translator
- Narrated by: Toby Stephens
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In this exquisite literary gem, Georgi Gospodinov, winner of the International Booker Prize, invites the listener on a winding journey through his own memories. He shows us a childhood under Communism, a particularly Bulgarian variety of melancholy, the freedom and thrills found in reading and writing, and the coming of age of one extraordinary writer. Ultimately, this profound, playful and deeply moving autobiographical text offers resounding proof of the power and importance of storytelling.
By: Georgi Gospodinov, and others
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Wanderers
- A History of Women Walking
- By: Kerri Andrews, Kathleen Jamie - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Lauren Baldwin
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter—who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England—to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed.
By: Kerri Andrews, and others