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The Year of Magical Thinking
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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When celebrated writer Joan Didion’s life was altered forever, she wrote a new chapter. In this adaptation of her iconic memoir, Didion transforms the story of the shattering loss of her husband and their daughter into a one-woman play performed by Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave, who originated the role on Broadway in 2007.
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A loss shaped story, laden with warmth
- By tamara on 03-11-21
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The Year of Magical Thinking
- Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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The House of Beckham
- Money, Sex and Power
- By: Tom Bower
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Through extensive research, expert sourcing and interviews with insiders, Britain’s most celebrated investigative biographer, Tom Bower, has unearthed a succession of revelations that give surprising insight into the reality of ‘Brand Beckham’. Exploring the couple’s relationship, and the truth about their football and fashion careers, their finances and their new life in Miami, The House of Beckham unravels the extraordinary reality of the business-savvy cultural icons to tell an engrossing, often astonishing story of money, sex and power.
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The House of Beckham
- Money, Sex and Power
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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These Foolish Things
- A Memoir
- By: Dylan Jones
- Narrated by: David Thorpe, Dylan Jones
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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These Foolish Things captivatingly charts Dylan's life: from his peripatetic childhood and late adolescence in 1970s London - a city then alive with possibility - to his award-winning tenure at what would become one of the most dynamic magazines of its era, GQ.
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These Foolish Things
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: David Thorpe, Dylan Jones
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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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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In Gotta Get Theroux This, Louis takes the reader on a joyous journey from his anxiety-prone childhood to his unexpectedly successful career. Nervously accepting the BBC’s offer of his own series, he went on to create an award-winning documentary style that has seen him immersed in the weird worlds of paranoid US militias and secretive pro-wrestlers, get under the skin of celebrities like Max Clifford and Chris Eubank and tackle gang culture in San Quentin prison, all the time wondering whether the same qualities that make him good at documentaries might also make him bad at life.
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Great book
- By Kate Pennington on 21-09-19
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Gotta Get Theroux This
- My Life and Strange Times in Television
- Narrated by: Louis Theroux
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 19-09-19
- Language: English
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The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Bill Bryson's hilarious memoir of growing up in middle America in the Fifties, complete, unabridged and read by the author. Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24 carat memoir gold.
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I used to be a Bill Bryson fan!
- By Elizabeth on 01-09-07
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The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 30-08-06
- Language: English
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There's Someone in Reception
- Adventures in Local Journalism
- By: Alex Morrison
- Narrated by: Richard Godden
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Welcome to the life of a local journalist, and the curious tradition of the “walk-in” – when a member of the public turns up with a tale to tell. The newsworthiness of these stories is... well... mixed, to say the least. But every journalist remembers their weirdest and most wonderful walk-ins.
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Funny and insightful look into local Joirnalism
- By JB on 06-06-24
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There's Someone in Reception
- Adventures in Local Journalism
- Narrated by: Richard Godden
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 24-05-24
- Language: English
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Word Monkey
- By: Christopher Fowler
- Narrated by: Sean Pertwee
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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This is the memoir Christopher Fowler always wanted to write about 'writing'. It's the story of how a young bookworm growing up in a house where there was nothing to read but knitting pamphlets and motorcycle manuals became a writer—a 'word monkey'—and pursued a sort of career in popular fiction. And it's a book full of brilliant insights into the pleasures and pitfalls of his profession, dos and don'ts for would-be writers, and astute observations on favorite (and not-so-favorite) novelists.
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Word Monkey
- Narrated by: Sean Pertwee
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie
- By: Lucy Worsley
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? As Lucy Worsley says, 'She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'. Her life was 'modern' too: she went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why—despite all the evidence to the contrary—did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure?
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Enjoyable
- By oohmarkie on 09-09-22
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Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 08-09-22
- Language: English
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Making It up as I Go Along
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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You'll be wincing in recognition and scratching your head in incredulity, but like Marian herself you won't be able to stop laughing at the sheer delightful absurdity that is modern life - because each and every one of us is clearly making it up as we go along. She has wonderful and tickling words of advice for those fast approaching 50.
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Disappointing
- By Poppsi on 29-10-17
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Making It up as I Go Along
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 16-02-16
- Language: English
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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In 1982 Murakami began running to keep fit. Here he reflects on his running experiences. Equal parts travelogue, training log, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, this is a must-listen for fans of this masterful author and for the increasing number of people who find a similar satisfaction in running.
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Surprising little gem
- By Sue on 05-04-17
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-07-16
- Language: English
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Knife
- Meditations After an Attempted Murder
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is a gripping, intimate, and ultimately life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art - and finding the strength to stand up again.
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Honesty. Brilliance.
- By Lynne Suo on 16-04-24
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Knife
- Meditations After an Attempted Murder
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 16-04-24
- Language: English
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- Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
- By: Patrick Grant
- Narrated by: Patrick Grant
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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In this passionate and revealing book about loving clothes but despairing of a broken global system Patrick Grant considers the crisis of consumption and quality in fashion, and how we might make ourselves happier by rediscovering the joy of living with fewer, better-quality things. Weaving in his personal journey through fashion, clothing and the other everyday objects in his life, this is a book that celebrates craftsmanship, making things with care, buying things with thought and valuing everything we own.
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Inspiring
- By Anonymous User on 15-06-24
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- Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
- Narrated by: Patrick Grant
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 09-05-24
- Language: English
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On Writing
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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In June of 1999, Stephen King was hit by a van while walking along the shoulder of a country road in Maine. Six operations were required to save his life and mend his broken body. When he was finally able to sit up, he immediately started writing. This book - part biography, part a collection of tips for the aspiring writer - is the extraordinary result.
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Great personal insight
- By Blinkinmarvellous on 13-04-13
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On Writing
- Narrated by: Stephen King
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 19-07-12
- Language: English
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Everything Is Everything
- A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope
- By: Clive Myrie
- Narrated by: Clive Myrie
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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As a Bolton teenager with a paper round Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cover to cover, and dreamed of becoming a journalist. Thirty years on, he's reported from more than ninety countries for the BBC. In this deeply personal memoir, he reflects on how being black has affected his perspective on the myriad issues he's encountered in reporting some of the biggest stories of our time. Clive's empathy for the individual caught up in large historical events is widely recognised.
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Riveting book. Highly recommended
- By Amazon Customer on 18-09-23
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Everything Is Everything
- A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope
- Narrated by: Clive Myrie
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 14-09-23
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Love
- The Search for Victor Hugo's Daughter
- By: Mark Bostridge
- Narrated by: John Hastings
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adèle Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love – and the writer who chased after her more than 150 years later. In Pursuit of Love is part memoir and part travelogue, as well as an invigorating new approach to the writing of biography.
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In Pursuit of Love
- The Search for Victor Hugo's Daughter
- Narrated by: John Hastings
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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An Autobiography
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 28 hrs and 8 mins
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Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography. Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie’s readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least well-known. Her candid Autobiography, written mainly in the 1960s, modestly ignores the fact that Agatha had become the best-selling novelist in history and concentrates on her fascinating private life.
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First Class Writing and Reading
- By Sydney on 04-04-14
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An Autobiography
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 28 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 12-09-13
- Language: English
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Straight Acting
- The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
- By: Will Tosh
- Narrated by: Will Tosh
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Straight Acting is a surprising portrait of Shakespeare's queer lives - his own and those in his plays and poems. It is a journey back in time and through Shakespeare's England, revealing a culture that both endorsed and supressed same-sex desire. It is a call to stop making Shakespeare act straight and to recognise how queerness powerfully shaped the life and career of the world's most famous playwright.
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Straight Acting
- The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Will Tosh
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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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
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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.
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Amazing brilliant witty analysis
- By Amazon Customer on 26-08-23
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Politics: A Survivor's Guide
- How to Stay Engaged Without Getting Enraged
- Narrated by: Rafael Behr
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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On Leopard Rock
- A Life of Adventures
- By: Wilbur Smith
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. From being attacked by lions to close encounters with deadly reef sharks, from getting lost in the African bush without water to crawling the precarious tunnels of gold mines, from marlin fishing with Lee Marvin to near death from crash-landing a Cessna airplane, from brutal school days to redemption through writing and falling in love, Wilbur Smith tells us the intimate stories of his life that have been the raw material for his fiction.
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Fantastic.........
- By Cal777 on 18-07-18
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On Leopard Rock
- A Life of Adventures
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 17-05-18
- Language: English
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The Pigeon Tunnel
- Stories from My Life
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.' The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carré's memoir and his first work of nonfiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret sharers' - the men and women who inspired some of his most enthralling novels - and a testament to the author's extraordinary engagement with the last half century.
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Enjoyable and Interesting life story
- By Mr Lee Rudd on 17-11-16
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The Pigeon Tunnel
- Stories from My Life
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: English
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