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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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Howard’s End Is on the Landing
- A Year of Reading from Home
- By: Susan Hill
- Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned....
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Reading the books you already own
- By Manda N on 07-01-18
By: Susan Hill
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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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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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'Tis
- By: Frank McCourt
- Narrated by: Frank McCourt
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Abridged
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The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured our hearts in the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes...
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Abridged, do not buy.
- By Anonymous User on 04-12-19
By: Frank McCourt
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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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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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Howard’s End Is on the Landing
- A Year of Reading from Home
- By: Susan Hill
- Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned....
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Reading the books you already own
- By Manda N on 07-01-18
By: Susan Hill
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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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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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'Tis
- By: Frank McCourt
- Narrated by: Frank McCourt
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Abridged
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The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured our hearts in the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes...
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Abridged, do not buy.
- By Anonymous User on 04-12-19
By: Frank McCourt
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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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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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Insightful and beautiful
- By Paul skinner on 07-04-24
By: J. R. R. Tolkien, and others
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In the Footsteps of Du Fu
- By: Michael Wood
- Narrated by: Michael Wood
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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Du Fu (712-70) is one of China’s greatest poets. Now, broadcaster and historian Michael Wood follows in his footsteps to try to understand the places that inspired Du Fu to write some of the most famous and best-loved poetry the world has known....
By: Michael Wood
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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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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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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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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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Tennessee Williams
- Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
- By: John Lahr
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Ashley
- Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker....
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Ruined by Narrator
- By F. Wynn on 09-09-16
By: John Lahr
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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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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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Without Warning and Only Sometimes
- Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
- By: Kit de Waal
- Narrated by: Kit de Waal
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From the award-winning author of My Name Is Leon, The Trick to Time and Supporting Cast comes a childhood memoir set to become a classic: stinging, warm-hearted and true....
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Superb
- By Amazon Customer on 19-08-22
By: Kit de Waal
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Ghosted
- An American Story
- By: Nancy French
- Narrated by: Nancy French
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Nancy French
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The Apology
- By: Eve Ensler
- Narrated by: Eve Ensler, Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused by her father, Eve has struggled her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead....
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Tough going
- By Mel on 13-09-21
By: Eve Ensler
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The Orwell Tour
- Travels Through the Life and Work of George Orwell
- By: Oliver Lewis
- Narrated by: Oliver Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Following in the footsteps of his literary hero, researcher and historian Oliver Lewis set out to visit all the places to have inspired and been lived in by George Orwell....
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Enjoyable and informative.
- By Eddy A. on 17-09-23
By: Oliver Lewis
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Daily Rituals
- How Artists Work
- By: Mason Currey
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Brilliantly compiled and edited, and filled with detail and anecdote, Daily Rituals is irresistible, addictive, magically inspiring....
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Disjointed bombardment
- By joseph on 08-06-14
By: Mason Currey
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic....
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True To Life
- By Gillian on 04-09-06
By: Maya Angelou
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Hide-and-Seek with Angels
- A Life of J.M. Barrie
- By: Lisa Chaney
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Lisa Chaney goes beyond the myths to discover the fascinating, frequently misunderstood man behind the famous boy....
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Loved loved the book
- By Resonate on 27-09-23
By: Lisa Chaney
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Letters to Gil
- By: Malik Al Nasir
- Narrated by: Malik Al Nasir, Gil Scott-Heron, Benjamin Zephania
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Letters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir’s profound coming-of-age memoir - the story of surviving physical and racial abuse and discovering a new sense of self-worth under the wing of the great artist, poet and civil rights activist Gil Scott-Heron....
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Life changing read
- By Mummy of 4 on 07-03-23
By: Malik Al Nasir
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Back in the Day
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world....
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Fabulous!
- By Amazon Customer on 06-09-22
By: Melvyn Bragg
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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.
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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!
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Knife
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- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
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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.
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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!
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Leo Tolstoy - A short biography
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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!
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Joseph Roth - A short biography
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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!
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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!
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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!
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Knife
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- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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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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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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Leo Tolstoy - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
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- Narrated by: George Fritsche
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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!
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
- Unabridged
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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
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Edgar Allan Poe
- The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Author
- By: Liam Dale
- Narrated by: Liam Dale
- Length: 41 mins
- Unabridged
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As a poem ‘The Raven’ is without doubt more famous and widely known than the troubled author who penned it. His name was Edgar Allan Poe, and his work was directly responsible for shaping the modern horror industry as we know it. He was the Godfather of Gore, the Father of Fear, the Master of the Macabre, and the Guardian of the Gruesome. Poe was also one of the best mystery writers of all time, however the most fascinating puzzle he left us was that of his own life, and in this journal, we will follow in the great man’s footsteps to turn detective.
By: Liam Dale
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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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Ghost Dogs
- On Killers and Kin
- By: Andre Dubus III
- Narrated by: Andre Dubus III
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget.
By: Andre Dubus III
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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
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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