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The George Orwell Non-Fiction Collection
- Down and Out in Paris and London; The Road to Wigan Pier; Homage to Catalonia; Essays; Poems
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, Malk Williams
- Length: 33 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5
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This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of all George Orwell's greatest non-fiction: three full-length books, a collection of his most well-renowned essays and the complete collection of his poetry.
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At last - Orwell’s best essays well read
- By Albert T on 18-12-21
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The George Orwell Non-Fiction Collection
- Down and Out in Paris and London; The Road to Wigan Pier; Homage to Catalonia; Essays; Poems
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, Malk Williams
- Length: 33 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 16-12-21
- Language: English
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Look Again
- The Autobiography
- By: David Bailey
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde, Joshua Akehurst, Simon Darwen, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance38
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Eye-opening and candid, David Bailey's Look Again is a fantastically entertaining memoir by a true icon. 'Rollicking . . . with roguish tales as vivid as his era-defining photos' – Daily Mail 'Brilliant' – Telegraph David Bailey burst onto the scene in 1960 with his revolutionary photographs...
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Great Read
- By Ron G. on 12-05-24
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Look Again
- The Autobiography
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde, Joshua Akehurst, Simon Darwen, Willow Nash
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 14-10-21
- Language: English
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Latest Readings
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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In 2010,Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would "live, read, and perhaps even write". James is the award-winning author of dozens of works of literary criticism, poetry, and history, and this volume contains his reflections on what may well be his last reading list.
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Not Clive reading
- By hobans48 on 08-06-19
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Latest Readings
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-10-15
- Language: English
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Charles Bukowski
- Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
- By: Howard Sounes
- Narrated by: Howard Sounes
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance30
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The American writer Charles Bukowski (1920-94) developed a cult following for his simple and vivid poems, stories and novels based on his experiences as a hard-drinking postal worker in Los Angeles. His classic books include Post Office, Women and Love Is a Dog from Hell. In this engrossing biography, studded with excerpts from Bukowski's writing, Howard Sounes tells the true story of Bukowski's life in the same punchy style as his subject.
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Uncompromising subject and account
- By Paul Brookes on 30-05-16
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Charles Bukowski
- Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
- Narrated by: Howard Sounes
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 31-03-16
- Language: English
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The Waste Land
- A Biography of a Poem
- By: Matthew Hollis
- Narrated by: Matthew Hollis
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance26
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In a remarkable feat of biography, Matthew Hollis reconstructs the intellectual creation of the poem and brings the material reality of its charged times vividly to life. Presenting a mosaic of historical fragments, diaries, dynamic literary criticism and illuminating new research, he reveals the cultural and personal trauma that forged The Waste Land through the lives of its protagonists.
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I would never have dared tackle poem without this
- By Mary on 03-11-23
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The Waste Land
- A Biography of a Poem
- Narrated by: Matthew Hollis
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 20-12-22
- Language: English
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,280
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Performance1,102
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When Jeanette Winterson left home at 16 because she was in love with a woman, Mrs. Winterson asked her: "Why be happy when you could be normal?" This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness. It is the story of how the painful past returned to haunt Jeanette's later life, and send her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother. It is also a book about other people's stories, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life raft which supports us when we are sinking.
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Oranges Is Not The Only Book
- By Blake's Tyger on 23-12-12
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 12-03-12
- Language: English
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The Little Big Things
- A young man's belief that every day can be a good day
- By: Henry Fraser
- Narrated by: Henry Fraser
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall332
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Performance302
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Story303
A short, inspirational audiobook from Henry Fraser, a young quadriplegic motivational speaker and artist. Henry Fraser was a 17-year-old sports enthusiast and senior prefect when he broke his spinal cord and was left paralysed from the shoulders down. Life as he knew it was over, and yet, through extraordinary determination and a positive attitude, he has forged a successful career as an inspirational speaker and an artist.
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Such courage.
- By Jonathan D. on 21-11-19
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The Little Big Things
- A young man's belief that every day can be a good day
- Narrated by: Henry Fraser
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 21-09-17
- Language: English
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Liebe in Zeiten des Hasses
- Chronik eines Gefühls 1929-1939
- By: Florian Illies
- Narrated by: Stephan Schad
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Als Jean-Paul Sartre mit Simone de Beauvoir im Kranzler-Eck in Berlin Käsekuchen isst, Henry Miller und Anaïs Nin wilde Nächte in Paris erleben, F. Scott Fitzgerald und Frida Kahlo sich in leidenschaftliche Affären stürzen, fliehen Bertolt Brecht und Helene Weigel ins Exil. Genau das ist die Zeit, in der die Nazis die Macht in Deutschland ergreifen, Bücher verbrennen und die Gewalt gegen die Juden beginnt. 1933 enden die "Goldenen Zwanziger" mit einer Vollbremsung.
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Liebe in Zeiten des Hasses
- Chronik eines Gefühls 1929-1939
- Narrated by: Stephan Schad
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 27-10-21
- Language: German
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A Life in Questions
- By: Jeremy Paxman
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall527
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Performance476
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Story475
The witty, incisive and frank memoirs from the legend of Newsnight and long-standing quiz master of University Challenge. Filled with views, opinions and stories from 4 decades in front of the camera. ‘Bursting with good things’ Daily Telegraph During 25 years as BBC Newsnight’s supreme...
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Paxman on Paxman, what's not to love?
- By Savvyman on 01-11-16
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A Life in Questions
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 06-10-16
- Language: English
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Thunderclap
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024
- By: Laura Cumming
- Narrated by: Laura Cumming
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance48
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'We see with everything that we are' On the morning of 12 October 1654, in the Dutch city of Delft, a sudden explosion was followed by a thunderclap that could be heard more than seventy miles away. Carel Fabritius - now known across the world for his exquisite...
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Beautiful
- By Patricia White on 16-05-24
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Thunderclap
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024
- Narrated by: Laura Cumming
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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From a Soul Friend
- A Vision of Becoming with John O’Donohue
- By: PhD John O'Donohue
- Narrated by: PhD John O'Donohue
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Visionary Teachings to Explore the Landscape of the Heart Beloved poet and philosopher John O'Donohue created a remarkable body of work on the subjects of spirituality and Celtic mysticism. His gift was evoking hope, solace, and clarity—offering ancient wisdom that could provide desperately...
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Emphatic
- By YVONNE on 08-03-25
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From a Soul Friend
- A Vision of Becoming with John O’Donohue
- Narrated by: PhD John O'Donohue
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 07-02-23
- Language: English
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The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte
- By: Daphne Du Maurier
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA Pursued by the twin demons of drink and madness, Branwell Bronte created a private world that was indeed infernal. As a bold and gifted child, his promise seemed boundless to the three adoring sisters over whom his rule was complete. But as an adult, the...
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The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 28-05-26
- Language: English
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Somewhere Towards the End
- By: Diana Athill
- Narrated by: Claire Bloom
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance29
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What is it like to be old? Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs. In Somewhere Towards the End she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This is a lively narrative of events, lovers and friendships: the people and experiences that have taight her to regret very little, to resist despondency and to question the beliefs and customs of her own generation.
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An interesting perspective of ageing and death.
- By Alison St Pierre on 18-09-12
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Somewhere Towards the End
- Narrated by: Claire Bloom
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 29-04-09
- Language: English
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Nora Ephron
- A Biography
- By: Kristin Marguerite Doidge
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Nora Ephron was one of the most popular, accomplished, and beloved writers in American journalism and film. Nora Ephron: A Biography is the first biography of the Manhattan-born girl who forged a path of her own, earning accolades and adoration from critics and fans alike. Author Kristin Marguerite Doidge explores the tremendous successes and disappointing failures Ephron sustained in her career and examines the private life she tried to keep in balance with her insatiable ambition.
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Good but
- By Sue Hepworth on 30-12-24
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Nora Ephron
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 07-06-22
- Language: English
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True Stories
- Selected Non-Fiction
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5
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Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning 50 and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her story on the murder of the two-year-old Daniel Valerio wins her a Walkley Award.
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True Stories
- Selected Non-Fiction
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 24-03-17
- Language: English
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Orwell's Roses
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. "Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening" wrote George Orwell in 1940. Inspired by her encounter with the surviving roses that Orwell planted in his cottage in Hertfordshire, Rebecca Solnit explores how his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and the intertwined politics of nature and power.
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Words, words, words
- By Tout en chantant on 06-02-23
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Orwell's Roses
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 30-03-22
- Language: English
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The Loves of My Life
- A Sex Memoir
- By: Edmund White
- Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance17
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Bloomsbury presents The Loves of My Life by the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex. Read by Joel Froomkin. A VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White’s love of sex makes us proud to be human...
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Great book, annoying narrator
- By wokar on 08-02-25
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The Loves of My Life
- A Sex Memoir
- Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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The Golden Age of Murder
- By: Martin Edwards
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance40
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Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction. Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as...
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Classic. Brilliant. Enlightening.
- By Nico on 11-06-15
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The Golden Age of Murder
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 07-05-15
- Language: English
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The Voice that Thunders
- By: Alan Garner
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker 'His work has a symphonic quality unique in fiction' THE TIMES ‘The autobiography of one of the most distinct and profound writers we have’ GUARDIAN In this rich collection of writings, spanning more...
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The Voice that Thunders
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 21-11-24
- Language: English
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George Lucas
- A Life
- By: Brian Jay Jones
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The essential biography of the influential and beloved filmmaker George Lucas. On May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, budget-straining independent science-fiction film opened in a mere thirty-two American movie theaters. Conceived, written, and directed by a little-known filmmaker named George...
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George Lucas
- A Life
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-12-16
- Language: English
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