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Gotta Get Theroux This
- My Life and Strange Times in Television
- By: Louis Theroux
- Narrated by: Louis Theroux
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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From much-loved documentary maker Louis Theroux comes a funny, heartfelt and entertaining account of his life and weird times in TV....
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Great book
- By Kate Pennington on 21-09-19
By: Louis Theroux
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Politics: A Survivor's Guide
- How to Stay Engaged Without Getting Enraged
- By: Rafael Behr
- Narrated by: Rafael Behr
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is both an unflinching account of the disease in our politics and an upbeat look for the cure....
By: Rafael Behr
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Theroux the Keyhole
- Diaries of a Grounded Documentary Maker
- By: Louis Theroux
- Narrated by: Louis Theroux
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Come round to Louis Theroux’s house where the much-loved TV documentary-maker, podcaster and best-selling author of Gotta Get Theroux This finds himself in unexpected danger....
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When Louis met...childcare responsibilities
- By Will Shelf on 14-11-21
By: Louis Theroux
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How to Fail
- Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong
- By: Elizabeth Day
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Day
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Part memoir, part manifesto, and including chapters on dating, work, sport, babies, families, anger and friendship, it is based on the simple premise that understanding why we fail ultimately makes us stronger....
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Based on partial listen - couldn't finish.
- By dot_stockport on 31-07-19
By: Elizabeth Day
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A Pebble in the Throat
- Growing up Between Two Continents
- By: Aasmah Mir
- Narrated by: Aasmah Mir
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating and emotive narrative capturing the journey many second-generation Britons have travelled from the familial bonds of their parents' countries to establishing a life and identity for themselves in the United Kingdom....
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Read by the author, made her story enthralling and fascinating
- By maurice young on 06-06-23
By: Aasmah Mir
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Fear and Loathing, Book 1
- By: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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No book ever written has more perfectly captured the spirit of the 1960s counterculture....
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Roller coaster ride of drug abuse
- By StuBart on 11-04-15
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Gotta Get Theroux This
- My Life and Strange Times in Television
- By: Louis Theroux
- Narrated by: Louis Theroux
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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From much-loved documentary maker Louis Theroux comes a funny, heartfelt and entertaining account of his life and weird times in TV....
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Great book
- By Kate Pennington on 21-09-19
By: Louis Theroux
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Politics: A Survivor's Guide
- How to Stay Engaged Without Getting Enraged
- By: Rafael Behr
- Narrated by: Rafael Behr
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is both an unflinching account of the disease in our politics and an upbeat look for the cure....
By: Rafael Behr
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Theroux the Keyhole
- Diaries of a Grounded Documentary Maker
- By: Louis Theroux
- Narrated by: Louis Theroux
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Come round to Louis Theroux’s house where the much-loved TV documentary-maker, podcaster and best-selling author of Gotta Get Theroux This finds himself in unexpected danger....
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When Louis met...childcare responsibilities
- By Will Shelf on 14-11-21
By: Louis Theroux
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How to Fail
- Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong
- By: Elizabeth Day
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Day
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Part memoir, part manifesto, and including chapters on dating, work, sport, babies, families, anger and friendship, it is based on the simple premise that understanding why we fail ultimately makes us stronger....
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Based on partial listen - couldn't finish.
- By dot_stockport on 31-07-19
By: Elizabeth Day
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A Pebble in the Throat
- Growing up Between Two Continents
- By: Aasmah Mir
- Narrated by: Aasmah Mir
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating and emotive narrative capturing the journey many second-generation Britons have travelled from the familial bonds of their parents' countries to establishing a life and identity for themselves in the United Kingdom....
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Read by the author, made her story enthralling and fascinating
- By maurice young on 06-06-23
By: Aasmah Mir
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Fear and Loathing, Book 1
- By: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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No book ever written has more perfectly captured the spirit of the 1960s counterculture....
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Roller coaster ride of drug abuse
- By StuBart on 11-04-15
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The Unexpected Joy of Being Single
- Locating Happily-Single Serenity
- By: Catherine Gray
- Narrated by: Catherine Gray
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Catherine Gray took a whole year off dating to find single satisfaction. She lifted the lid on the reasons behind the global single revolution....
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Possibly ok if you're young and/ or unaware
- By A. McArthur on 06-05-19
By: Catherine Gray
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Sunshine Warm Sober
- The unexpected joy of being sober – forever
- By: Catherine Gray
- Narrated by: Catherine Gray
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Retired wreckhead Catherine Gray, author of surprise best seller The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, is now in her ninth sober year and has learnt a damn sight more....
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Feels like a churned out title for revenue
- By David J. Ickringill on 29-08-21
By: Catherine Gray
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A Life in Questions
- By: Jeremy Paxman
- Narrated by: Jeremy Paxman
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The witty, incisive and frank memoir of the best-selling author of The Victorians, Jeremy Paxman, whose career at the BBC included 25 years as the uncompromising presenter of Newsnight....
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Paxman on Paxman, what's not to love?
- By Savvyman on 01-11-16
By: Jeremy Paxman
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Animal House
- By: James Brown
- Narrated by: James Brown
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the the must-buy and must-be-in publication of the decade. It won every award going, year after year, and came to define not only its audience but also a generation....
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Fantastic!
- By D JARVIS on 02-05-23
By: James Brown
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Keep Talking
- A Broadcasting Life
- By: David Dimbleby
- Narrated by: David Dimbleby
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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David Dimbleby reflects on his 50 year career at the BBC taking us behind the scenes of some of the biggest moments in British broadcasting....
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Fantastic insight into journalism of the last 60 years
- By N Saker on 06-11-22
By: David Dimbleby
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Airhead
- The Imperfect Art of Making News
- By: Emily Maitlis
- Narrated by: Emily Maitlis
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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As anchor for the BBC's key political news programme, Newsnight, Emily Maitlis has interviewed some of the most powerful and controversial figures on the political scene....
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A rather brilliant and all too brief glimpse into what it is to make the news
- By Benjamin on 26-04-19
By: Emily Maitlis
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Hungry
- By: Grace Dent
- Narrated by: Grace Dent
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yearned to be something bigger. Hungry traces Grace’s story from growing up eating beige food to becoming one of the much-loved voices on the British food scene....
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Emotional....nostalgic......fabulous
- By Amy Troy on 05-11-20
By: Grace Dent
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Travels with Herodotus
- By: Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Narrated by: Nicolas Coster
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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From renowned journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski comes this intimate account of his years in the field....
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All the President's Men
- By: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the book that changed America....
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Wow!
- By Lee on 14-12-13
By: Bob Woodward, and others
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Tokyo Vice
- An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
- By: Jake Adelstein
- Narrated by: Jake Adelstein
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up....
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Misses...
- By AJ on 28-07-11
By: Jake Adelstein
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Paper Cuts
- How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures
- By: Ted Kessler
- Narrated by: Ted Kessler
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Paper Cuts is the inside story of the slow death of the British music press. But it's also a love letter to it, the tale of how music magazines saved one man's life....
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Brilliant
- By Jay Love on 26-05-23
By: Ted Kessler
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Can't Stand Up for Falling Down
- Rock 'n' Roll War Stories
- By: Allan Jones
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Allan Jones launched Uncut magazine in 1997 and for 15 years wrote a popular monthly column called Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, based on his experiences as a music journalist....
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Cliched, prejudiced, limited on real music
- By Ian on 02-05-18
By: Allan Jones
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A Day Like Today
- Memoirs
- By: John Humphrys
- Narrated by: John Humphrys
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A sharp, shrewd memoir and a backstage account of the great newsworthy moments in recent history – from the voice behind the country’s most authoritative microphone....
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Bloody fantastic
- By London Girl on 07-10-19
By: John Humphrys
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She Said
- Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Ignited a Movement
- By: Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
- Narrated by: Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, Rebecca Loman
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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On October 5, 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that helped change the world. For months, they had been having confidential discussions with top actresses, former Weinstein employees and other sources, learning of disturbing allegations....
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OHHHH MY GOD - YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THIS!!
- By liberty on 04-02-20
By: Jodi Kantor, and others
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A Stranger in Your Own City
- Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
- By: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
- Narrated by: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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This is not a book about Iraq's history, nor an inventory of the many Middle Eastern wars that have spun out over the past twenty years, though both wars and history are part of its narrative, from the American invasion to the Arab Spring, ISIS and beyond....
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A stunning account of the Iraq war
- By Christian on 25-05-23
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Personal History
- By: Katharine Graham
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 30 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is a book composed of both personal memoir and history....
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A very interesting insight into 60 years of US history
- By Client d'Amazon on 03-05-23
By: Katharine Graham
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The Secret Heart
- John le Carré: An Intimate Memoir
- By: Suleika Dawson
- Narrated by: Suleika Dawson
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The astonishing new portrait of the master of spy fiction, by the woman he kept secret for almost half his life, The Secret Heart is the account of Suleika Dawson’s enduring love affair with John le Carré....
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Frank, perceptive and uniquely moving
- By emeralda on 19-11-22
By: Suleika Dawson
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Pour Me
- A Life
- By: A. A. Gill
- Narrated by: Dougray Scott
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A. A. Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon - driven to dry out, not out of a desire to change....
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'Every long, hallowed word'
- By Rachel Redford on 15-08-17
By: A. A. Gill
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The Durrells of Corfu
- By: Michael Haag
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The award-winning TV adaption The Durrells left its seven million fans with questions: What happened to the family - and what took them to Corfu in the first place? This audiobook has the answers....
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Really interesting and amusing tales of the family
- By Sara on 04-01-18
By: Michael Haag
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Shakespeare’s Book
- The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
- By: Chris Laoutaris
- Narrated by: Philip Pope
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The true story of how the First Folio creators made ‘Shakespeare’....
By: Chris Laoutaris
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A Life of My Own
- By: Claire Tomalin
- Narrated by: Dame Penelope Wilton
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success. Now she turns to look at her own life....
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Her autobiography as good as her biographies
- By Rachel Redford on 22-09-17
By: Claire Tomalin
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In the Early Times
- A Life Reframed
- By: Tad Friend
- Narrated by: Tad Friend
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In this “dazzling” (John Irving) memoir, acclaimed New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend reflects on the pressures of middle age, exploring his relationship with his dying father as he raises two children of his own....
By: Tad Friend
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Where the Light Fell
- A Memoir
- By: Philip Yancey
- Narrated by: Philip Yancey
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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With a journalist's background, Philip Yancey is widely admired for taking on the more difficult and confusing aspects of faith. Now, in Where the Light Fell, he shares, for the first time, the painful details of his own origins....
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Incredibly honest and helpful
- By Sandra Hansen on 12-11-21
By: Philip Yancey
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In Extremis
- The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
- By: Lindsey Hilsum
- Narrated by: Lindsey Hilsum
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, written and read by Lindsey Hilsum....
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An incredible book for an incredible woman.
- By Marguerite Leech on 15-01-19
By: Lindsey Hilsum
New Releases
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Make Your Own Mistakes
- By: Rich Cohen
- Narrated by: Rich Cohen
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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From the best-selling author of The Fish That Ate the Whale, Sweet and Low, and Tough Jews comes Make Your Own Mistakes, a candid, short memoir that chronicles Rich Cohen’s transition to young adulthood in New York City and beyond. Both amusing and thoughtful, this is the story of Rich’s quest to lead a life outside the confines of his father’s dream for him.
By: Rich Cohen
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Lost Son
- An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars
- By: Brett Forrest
- Narrated by: Brett Forrest
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son’s disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or was it a personal quest gone wrong? Only when Wall Street Journal reporter Brett Forrest embarks on his own investigation does a picture emerge: of the FBI's exploitation of US citizens through a secretive intelligence program, a young man's lust for adventure within the world's conflicts, and the costs of a rising clash between Moscow and Washington.
By: Brett Forrest
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A Pebble in the Throat
- Growing up Between Two Continents
- By: Aasmah Mir
- Narrated by: Aasmah Mir
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A Pebble in the Throat is two stories told in unison. Aasmah Mir growing up in Glasgow - the place of her birth - and the upbringing of her mother in Pakistan a generation before. It is an emotional and thought-provoking narrative on what it is like to live in two very different cultures whilst all the time aware of racism, prejudice and stereotyping of gender from the 1960s onwards.
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Read by the author, made her story enthralling and fascinating
- By maurice young on 06-06-23
By: Aasmah Mir
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Uneducated
- A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth
- By: Christopher Zara
- Narrated by: Christopher Zara
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Boldly honest, wryly funny, and utterly open-hearted, Uneducated is one diploma-less journalist’s map of our growing educational divide and, ultimately, a challenge: in our credential-obsessed world, what is the true value of a college degree? For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioral problems and never allowed back.
By: Christopher Zara
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Politics: A Survivor's Guide
- How to Stay Engaged Without Getting Enraged
- By: Rafael Behr
- Narrated by: Rafael Behr
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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On New Year's Eve 2019, Rafael Behr had what is clinically known as a massive bloody heart attack. In part, it was the result of his compulsive relationship with politics, working as a journalist in Westminster, on the front line of bitter information wars. When he was discharged from hospital, he asked himself how he would ever re-engage with politics—how would he care enough to write about it—without the stress? Something had to change. In 2021, Rafael published an essay about that experience and some of the lessons he had learned.
By: Rafael Behr
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Breakup
- A Reporter’s Marriage Amid a Central African War
- By: Anjan Sundaram
- Narrated by: Anjan Sundaram
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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After ten years of reporting from Central Africa for The New York Times, Associated Press and others, award-winning journalist Anjan Sundaram finds himself living a quiet life in Canada with his wife and newborn. But when word arrives of preparations for a genocide in the Central African Republic, he is suddenly torn between his duty as a husband and father and his moral responsibility to report on a conflict unseen by the world.
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highly recommend
- By litpixel on 14-05-23
By: Anjan Sundaram
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Make Your Own Mistakes
- By: Rich Cohen
- Narrated by: Rich Cohen
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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From the best-selling author of The Fish That Ate the Whale, Sweet and Low, and Tough Jews comes Make Your Own Mistakes, a candid, short memoir that chronicles Rich Cohen’s transition to young adulthood in New York City and beyond. Both amusing and thoughtful, this is the story of Rich’s quest to lead a life outside the confines of his father’s dream for him.
By: Rich Cohen
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Lost Son
- An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars
- By: Brett Forrest
- Narrated by: Brett Forrest
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son’s disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or was it a personal quest gone wrong? Only when Wall Street Journal reporter Brett Forrest embarks on his own investigation does a picture emerge: of the FBI's exploitation of US citizens through a secretive intelligence program, a young man's lust for adventure within the world's conflicts, and the costs of a rising clash between Moscow and Washington.
By: Brett Forrest
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A Pebble in the Throat
- Growing up Between Two Continents
- By: Aasmah Mir
- Narrated by: Aasmah Mir
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A Pebble in the Throat is two stories told in unison. Aasmah Mir growing up in Glasgow - the place of her birth - and the upbringing of her mother in Pakistan a generation before. It is an emotional and thought-provoking narrative on what it is like to live in two very different cultures whilst all the time aware of racism, prejudice and stereotyping of gender from the 1960s onwards.
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Read by the author, made her story enthralling and fascinating
- By maurice young on 06-06-23
By: Aasmah Mir
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Uneducated
- A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth
- By: Christopher Zara
- Narrated by: Christopher Zara
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Boldly honest, wryly funny, and utterly open-hearted, Uneducated is one diploma-less journalist’s map of our growing educational divide and, ultimately, a challenge: in our credential-obsessed world, what is the true value of a college degree? For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioral problems and never allowed back.
By: Christopher Zara
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Politics: A Survivor's Guide
- How to Stay Engaged Without Getting Enraged
- By: Rafael Behr
- Narrated by: Rafael Behr
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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On New Year's Eve 2019, Rafael Behr had what is clinically known as a massive bloody heart attack. In part, it was the result of his compulsive relationship with politics, working as a journalist in Westminster, on the front line of bitter information wars. When he was discharged from hospital, he asked himself how he would ever re-engage with politics—how would he care enough to write about it—without the stress? Something had to change. In 2021, Rafael published an essay about that experience and some of the lessons he had learned.
By: Rafael Behr
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Breakup
- A Reporter’s Marriage Amid a Central African War
- By: Anjan Sundaram
- Narrated by: Anjan Sundaram
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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After ten years of reporting from Central Africa for The New York Times, Associated Press and others, award-winning journalist Anjan Sundaram finds himself living a quiet life in Canada with his wife and newborn. But when word arrives of preparations for a genocide in the Central African Republic, he is suddenly torn between his duty as a husband and father and his moral responsibility to report on a conflict unseen by the world.
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highly recommend
- By litpixel on 14-05-23
By: Anjan Sundaram
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William Hunter - Finding Free Speech
- A British Soldier’s Son Who Became an Early American
- By: Eugene Procknow
- Narrated by: Ray Montecalvo
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In June 1798, President John Adams signed the now infamous Alien & Sedition Acts to suppress political dissent. Facing imminent personal risks, a gutsy Kentucky newspaper editor ran the first editorial denouncing the law's attempt to stifle the freedom of the press. Almost immediately, government lawyers recommended his arrest and prosecution.
By: Eugene Procknow
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On Writing and Failure
- Or, the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer
- By: Stephen Marche
- Narrated by: Stephen Marche
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to prepare them. Less a guide to writing and more a guide to what you need to continue existing as a writer, On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer describes the defining role played by rejection in literary endeavors and contemplates failure as the essence of the writer’s life.
By: Stephen Marche
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Big Men Fear Me
- The Fast Life and Quick Death of Canada’s Most Powerful Media Mogul
- By: Mark Bourrie
- Narrated by: Tom Lute
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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When George McCullagh bought The Globe and The Mail and Empire and merged them into the Globe and Mail, the charismatic 31-year-old high school dropout had already made millions on the stock market. It was just the beginning of the meteoric rise of a man widely expected to one day be prime minister of Canada. But the charismatic McCullagh had a dark side. Dogged by the bipolar disorder that destroyed his political ambitions and eventually killed him, he was all but written out of history.
By: Mark Bourrie
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A Factotum in the Book Trade
- By: Marius Kociejowski
- Narrated by: A.W. Miller
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it's because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires. A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey between the shelves—and then behind the counter, into the overstuffed basement, and up the spine-stacked attic stairs of your favorite neighborhood bookshop.
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Get the Damn Story
- Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers
- By: Thomas W. Lippman
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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In the decades between the Great Depression and the advent of cable television, when daily newspapers set the conversational agenda in the United States, the best reporter in the business was a rumpled, hard-drinking figure named Homer Bigart. Despite two Pulitzers and a host of other prizes, he quickly faded from public view after retirement. Few today know the extent to which he was esteemed by his peers. Get the Damn Story is the first comprehensive biography to encompass all of Bigart's journalism, including both his war reporting and coverage of domestic events.
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Shakespeare’s Book
- The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
- By: Chris Laoutaris
- Narrated by: Philip Pope
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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The true story of how the First Folio creators made ‘Shakespeare’. 2023 marks the 400-year anniversary of Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, known today simply as the First Folio. It is difficult to imagine a world without The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale, and Macbeth, but these are just some of the plays which were only preserved thanks to the astounding labour of love that went into creating the first collection.
By: Chris Laoutaris