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1000 Years of Annoying the French
- By: Stephen Clarke
- Narrated by: Justin Edwards
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Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Was the guillotine a French invention? Non! It was invented in Yorkshire. Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066....
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Bought as a holiday read, BEST book I've ever read
- By GoCanucksGo! 12-06-20
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How the French Won Waterloo - or Think They Did
- By: Stephen Clarke
- Narrated by: Justin Edwards
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- Unabridged
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Published in the 200th anniversary year of the Battle of Waterloo, a witty look at how the French still think they won, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. Two centuries after the Battle of Waterloo, the French are still in denial. If Napoleon lost on 18 June 1815 (and that's a big 'if') then whoever rules the universe got it wrong. As soon as the cannons stopped firing, French historians began rewriting history.
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A new look at Waterloo
- By JDEVLIN 12-10-16
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Chambers: The Complete Series 1-3
- A BBC Radio 4 Legal Comedy Drama
- By: Clive Coleman
- Narrated by: Alex Lowe, David Harewood, full cast,
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John Fuller-Carp, the Machiavellian head of chambers at Forecourt Buildings, is determined to become a QC and will perform almost any moral contortion to achieve his goal. When left-wing Ruth Quirke, rumoured to be a High Court judge's daughter, applies to join his chambers, Fuller-Carp's imagination goes into overdrive and promotion seems inevitable. However, his attempts to project a 'New Labour' image cut no ice with Ruth, and the two are soon at each other's throats.
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P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1
- The Jeeves Collection
- By: P.G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
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- Unabridged
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“I have the honour to offer up to you, thanks to the good people of Audible, a selection of some of my very favourite Wodehouse. If these stories are new to you I hope it will be the beginning of a lifelong pleasure, if some or all are familiar I hope you will welcome them like old friends.” (Stephen Fry). Audible Studios presents this brand new performance by Stephen Fry of some of his favourite Jeeves stories from P.G. Wodehouse, with an exclusive introduction.
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Wrong voice...
- By TC 19-12-20
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The Second Book of General Ignorance
- Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong
- By: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
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- Unabridged
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Just when you thought that it was safe to start showing off again, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson are back with another busload of mistakes and misunderstandings. Here is a new collection of simple, perfectly obvious questions you'll be quite certain you know the answers to. Whether it's history, science, sports, geography, literature, language, medicine, the classics, or common wisdom, you'll be astonished to discover that everything you thought you knew is still hopelessly wrong.
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So so - nothing special
- By Brian 20-05-20
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Histories of the Unexpected
- How Everything Has a History
- By: Sam Willis, James Daybell
- Narrated by: Sam Willis, James Daybell
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- Unabridged
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In Histories of the Unexpected, Sam Willis and James Daybell lead us on a journey of discovery that tackles some of the greatest historical themes but via entirely unexpected subjects. By taking this revolutionary approach, they not only present a new way of thinking about the past but also reveal the everyday world around us as never before.
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overall a very interesting book
- By Gd 01-04-20
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1000 Years of Annoying the French
- By: Stephen Clarke
- Narrated by: Justin Edwards
- Length:
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Was the guillotine a French invention? Non! It was invented in Yorkshire. Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066....
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Bought as a holiday read, BEST book I've ever read
- By GoCanucksGo! 12-06-20
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How the French Won Waterloo - or Think They Did
- By: Stephen Clarke
- Narrated by: Justin Edwards
- Length:
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Published in the 200th anniversary year of the Battle of Waterloo, a witty look at how the French still think they won, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. Two centuries after the Battle of Waterloo, the French are still in denial. If Napoleon lost on 18 June 1815 (and that's a big 'if') then whoever rules the universe got it wrong. As soon as the cannons stopped firing, French historians began rewriting history.
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A new look at Waterloo
- By JDEVLIN 12-10-16
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Chambers: The Complete Series 1-3
- A BBC Radio 4 Legal Comedy Drama
- By: Clive Coleman
- Narrated by: Alex Lowe, David Harewood, full cast,
- Length:
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John Fuller-Carp, the Machiavellian head of chambers at Forecourt Buildings, is determined to become a QC and will perform almost any moral contortion to achieve his goal. When left-wing Ruth Quirke, rumoured to be a High Court judge's daughter, applies to join his chambers, Fuller-Carp's imagination goes into overdrive and promotion seems inevitable. However, his attempts to project a 'New Labour' image cut no ice with Ruth, and the two are soon at each other's throats.
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P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1
- The Jeeves Collection
- By: P.G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length:
- Unabridged
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“I have the honour to offer up to you, thanks to the good people of Audible, a selection of some of my very favourite Wodehouse. If these stories are new to you I hope it will be the beginning of a lifelong pleasure, if some or all are familiar I hope you will welcome them like old friends.” (Stephen Fry). Audible Studios presents this brand new performance by Stephen Fry of some of his favourite Jeeves stories from P.G. Wodehouse, with an exclusive introduction.
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Wrong voice...
- By TC 19-12-20
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The Second Book of General Ignorance
- Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong
- By: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length:
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Just when you thought that it was safe to start showing off again, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson are back with another busload of mistakes and misunderstandings. Here is a new collection of simple, perfectly obvious questions you'll be quite certain you know the answers to. Whether it's history, science, sports, geography, literature, language, medicine, the classics, or common wisdom, you'll be astonished to discover that everything you thought you knew is still hopelessly wrong.
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So so - nothing special
- By Brian 20-05-20
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Histories of the Unexpected
- How Everything Has a History
- By: Sam Willis, James Daybell
- Narrated by: Sam Willis, James Daybell
- Length:
- Unabridged
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Overall
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In Histories of the Unexpected, Sam Willis and James Daybell lead us on a journey of discovery that tackles some of the greatest historical themes but via entirely unexpected subjects. By taking this revolutionary approach, they not only present a new way of thinking about the past but also reveal the everyday world around us as never before.
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overall a very interesting book
- By Gd 01-04-20
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(Not Quite) Mastering the Art of French Living
- By: Mark Greenside
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
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Every year upon arriving in Plobien, the small Breton town where he spends his summers, American writer Mark Greenside picks back up where he left off with his faux-pas-filled Francophile life. Mellowed and humbled, but not daunted (OK, slightly daunted), he faces imminent concerns: What does he cook for a French person? Who has the right-of-way when entering or exiting a roundabout? Where does he pay for a parking ticket? And most dauntingly of all, when can he touch the tomatoes?
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enjoyable
- By Kindle Customer 14-03-20
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The Hezbollah Hiking Club
- By: Dom Joly
- Narrated by: Dom Joly
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Dom Joly was born in Beirut and lived there until he was 18. He lived through the civil war, went to school with Osama Bin Laden, and learned to ski. At the age of seven he was sent to an English boarding school. It was a schizophrenic existence. Dom's parents divorced when he was 18, and he moved permanently to the UK, becoming a diplomat, a political journalist and then famous as a man who dressed as a giant squirrel. He has been back to Lebanon only twice since. Then he read about an attempt to encourage tourism in this long-suffering country: The Lebanon Mountain Trail.
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Wonderfully entertaining!
- By Andy Higgins 16-06-19
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A Beer in the Loire
- One Family's Quest to Brew British Beer in French Wine Country
- By: Tommy Barnes
- Narrated by: Jay Foreman
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Frustrated by a dead-end job, fed up with renting in London and the loathsome daily commute and, to cap it all, failing to make it as a stand-up comedian, Tommy Barnes was at breaking point. But he didn’t break - instead, he made himself redundant and took off to France with girlfriend Rose to pursue his dream of brewing beer.
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Stephen Fry in America
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
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Britain's best-loved comic genius Stephen Fry turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his black taxicab. Stephen's account of his adventures is filled with his unique humour, insight and warmth in this audiobook that accompanies his journey for the BBC1 series.
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Buck up, Stephen
- By Hannah 08-11-20
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QI: The Sound of General Ignorance
- By: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
- Narrated by: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
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Listen and learn! The Sound of General Ignorance brings you all the best bits of the number one bestseller The Book of General Ignorance in handy audio form. Allow yourself to wallow in the misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in 'common knowledge'. Your newfound wisdom will help you to impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and win every argument.
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Believe it or not?
- By Raisa 29-07-19
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Chocolat
- By: Joanne M Harris
- Narrated by: Joanne M Harris
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When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud denounces her as a serious moral danger to his flock - especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the traditional season of self-denial. As passions flare and the conflict escalates, the whole community takes sides. Can the solemnity of the church compare with the sinful pleasure of a chocolate truffle?
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Great read
- By Amazon Customer 10-07-18
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The Best of Me
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
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- Unabridged
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What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris' best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume. The collection will also feature an introduction by the author; two never-before-collected stories, 'Unbuttoned' and 'Undecided'; and a new interview with David Sedaris.
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Touching, funny, brilliant.
- By MrsF 09-11-20
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A Promised Land
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Dropping a classic
- By jesse 17-11-20
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Alastair Humphreys: Around the World by Bike
- By: Alastair Humphreys
- Narrated by: Alastair Humphreys
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At the age of 24, Alastair Humphreys set off to try to cycle round the world. By the time he arrived back home, four years later, he had ridden 46,000 miles across five continents on a budget of just £7,000. From frozen Siberia tundra to the jungles of central Africa, Alastair recounts his extraordinary his adventures in two parts - Moods of Future Joys and Thunder & Sunshine - brought together in audiobook for the first time.
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really enjoyed his story. Narration is excellent
- By greig johnston 18-11-19
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A History of Modern Britain
- By: Andrew Marr
- Narrated by: David Timson
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A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade political leaders think they know what they are doing but find themselves confounded. Every time the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted.
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Great Storytelling with few minor problems
- By Mads 16-05-18
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Humans
- A Brief History of How We F--ked It All Up
- By: Tom Phillips
- Narrated by: Nish Kumar
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In the 70,000 years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're real winners. But, frankly, it's not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we've managed to really, truly, quite unbelievably f--k things up. From Chairman Mao's Four Pests Campaign to the sinking of the Titanic; from the American Dustbowl to the world's leading superpower electing a reality TV mogul as President...it's pretty safe to say that, as a species, we haven't exactly grown wiser with age.
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Taught me more than school..
- By Anonymous User 21-04-19
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France
- A Short History: From Gaul to de Gaulle
- By: John Julius Norwich
- Narrated by: John Julius Norwich
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John Julius Norwich (at 88) has finally written the book he always wanted to write, the extremely colourful story of the country he loves best. From frowning Roman generals and belligerent Gallic chieftains to Charlemagne through Marie Antoinette and the storming of the Bastille to Vichy, the Resistance and beyond, France is packed with heroes and villains, adventures and battles, romance and revolution. Full of memorable stories and racy anecdotes, this is the country that has inspired the rest of the world to live, dress, eat - and love better.
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A Love letter to France
- By Daniel Johnstone 09-04-18
Paul West, a young Englishman, arrives in Paris to start a new job and finds out what the French are really like. They do eat a lot of cheese, some of which smells like pigs' droppings. They don't wash their armpits with garlic soap. Going on strike really is the second national participation sport after petanque. And, yes, they do use suppositories.
In his first novel, Stephen Clarke gives a laugh-out-loud account of the pleasures and perils of being a Brit in France. Less quaint than A Year in Provence, less chocolatey than Chocolat, A Year in the Merde will tell you how to get served by the grumpiest Parisian waiter; how to make perfect vinaigrette every time; how to make amour, not war; and how not to buy a house in the French countryside.
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- Charlotte
- 05-05-06
I'm French and I loved it
As a French myself I had no problems with this book! Infact I thought it was really funny. He uses the good old jokes about the French and the observations in the book are very true! I recognised a lot of things about the French in here. I'd recommend it to everyone - French people included.
A English man abroad
I loved this. I could relate to so much of this story it was uncanny.
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- Alex
- 23-07-15
I love this book
If you could sum up A Year in the Merde in three words, what would they be?
funny, charming, enjoyable
What did you like best about this story?
its just a funny good plot
Which character – as performed by Michael Praed – was your favourite?
Jean-Marie Martin
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
no its quite long but ive listened to it lots of times
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- Kate
- 08-05-13
Hillarious, brilliantly narrated novel
The way how Michael Praed narrates this funny story about French and English...ehm..differences is a pure joy. Definitely is worth buying.
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- DusanR
- 08-04-13
Hilarious!!
Be prepare to surprise your neighbours with unpredictable waves of laugh whilst listening this fab piece. Adventures of young Englishman in Paris are just amazing thing. Very well transformed from written version to audible one. Particular use of distort-spelled words and sentences went amazing way. I am sure you will recommend this audio book to all your friends (as I did). I can't wait for the second part of the story in audio version.
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- Juliana
- 16-05-10
Funny !
Even though I am not english nor french, I found the book extremely funny and interesting. Very well read.
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- Heather
- 07-03-10
A Year in the Merde
excellent depictation of an expats introduction to France full of good humour colorful discription of life amongst the native French a thoroughly enjoyable book
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- Miss
- 08-12-09
dead funny!
buy it
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- Cameron
- 09-06-07
Fantastique!
This is a tremendously entertaining book enjoyed by French and British alike. It has subtle humour and captivates from start to finish! Tres bon!
(Only critsism is that only the abridged version is available)
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- Adam
- 08-08-06
Hillarious
Amazingly funny book, really did make me laugh out loud. Having read the book on holiday and thoroughly enjoyed it, I then read it again on the train to work, people kept telling me to keep the laughing down a bit! I have passed the book on to all my friends, what better recommendation could you have?
I have also read the second book Merde Actually. Not as good, but still excellent