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The Examined Life
- How We Lose and Find Ourselves
- By: Stephen Grosz
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. **SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER** This book is about learning to live. Echoing Socrates' statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his twenty-five years of work and more than 50,000 hours of conversations to form a collection of...
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Bitesize case studies for students of counselling
- By JG on 07-12-23
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The Examined Life
- How We Lose and Find Ourselves
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 24-08-23
- Language: English
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Fires Which Burned Brightly
- A Life in Progress
- By: Sebastian Faulks
- Narrated by: Sebastian Faulks
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. ‘The only dividend of the years’ vanishing, as far as I can see, is that it makes aspects of the past appear more interesting or humorous than they felt at the time.’ In Fires Which Burned Brightly, Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of...
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moving memoir from author of birdsong
- By surgeon david on 02-10-25
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Fires Which Burned Brightly
- A Life in Progress
- Narrated by: Sebastian Faulks
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-09-25
- Language: English
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Boater
- A Life on England's Waterways
- By: Jo Bell
- Narrated by: Jo Bell
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Step aboard Boater, a mesmerising voyage along the tranquil waterways of England, written by former UK Canal Laureate, Jo Bell. ' It's not a lifestyle. It's a life ' For over twenty years, Jo Bell, archaeologist and poet, has travelled the waterways of England (and sometimes Wales) meeting...
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honest story
- By Roger K Wiltshire on 12-09-25
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Fallen Leaves
- Last Words on Life, Love, War & God
- By: Will Durant
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance52
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The final and most personal work from Pulitzer Prize - winning author and historian Will Durant - discovered 32 years after his death - is a message of insight for everyone who has sought meaning in life or the council of a wise friend in navigating life's journey. From 1968 to 1978, Will Durant made four public allusions to the existence of Fallen Leaves. One, in 1975, hinted at its contents: "a not very serious book that answers the questions of what I think about government, life, death, and God."
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Very out of touch
- By Joshua on 04-04-22
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Fallen Leaves
- Last Words on Life, Love, War & God
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-12-14
- Language: English
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A Memoir of My Former Self
- A Life in Writing
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Anne Enright, Aurora Dawson Hunte, Ben Miles, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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From her unique childhood to her all-consuming fascination with Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall Trilogy, Hilary Mantel had a celebrated career as a novelist. Alongside this, she long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. This strand of Hilary's writing was an integral part of how she thought of herself. 'Ink is a generative fluid,' she explains. 'If you don't mean your words to breed consequences, don't write at all.' A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades.
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A great selection of a great writer's talent
- By Rachel Redford on 02-12-23
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A Memoir of My Former Self
- A Life in Writing
- Narrated by: Anne Enright, Aurora Dawson Hunte, Ben Miles, Bill Hamilton, Jane Wymark, Lydia Leonard, Nicholas Pearson, Sarah Waters
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 19-10-23
- Language: English
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Life After Ambition
- A "Good Enough" Memoir
- By: Amil Niazi
- Narrated by: Amil Niazi
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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“Refreshingly candid...Niazi is telling her story in medias res, inviting readers to figure the whole mess out with her—and in this era of gentle-parenting TikToks and general advice oversaturation, that feels like a gift.” —Emma Specter, Vogue Channeling the subversive and sharp-eyed...
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Life After Ambition
- A "Good Enough" Memoir
- Narrated by: Amil Niazi
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-01-26
- Language: English
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Around the Table
- 52 Essays on Food & Life
- By: Diana Henry
- Narrated by: Diana Henry
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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'These beautiful essays, inspired by a life of exploring other cultures through the rituals of cooking and eating - and thinking about cooking and eating - are manna for the hungry listener.' A Times Audiobook of the Year 'One of her finest books yet.' Bee Wilson, the Sunday Times 'Diana Henry's...
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warm, enthusiastic stories about the discovery of new flavours
- By T. Rafferty on 24-03-26
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Around the Table
- 52 Essays on Food & Life
- Narrated by: Diana Henry
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 27-03-25
- Language: English
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Attention
- Writing on Life, Art and the World
- By: Anne Enright
- Narrated by: Anne Enright
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The first collection of Booker Prize-winning writer Anne Enright's non-fiction writing about culture, literature and her own life For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own...
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Attention
- Writing on Life, Art and the World
- Narrated by: Anne Enright
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 30-10-25
- Language: English
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The Men in My Life
- By: Vivian Gornick
- Narrated by: J. Michael McCullough
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In this collection, Vivian Gornick turns her attention to a large theme in literature: the struggle for the semblance of inner freedom. In the essays collected here, she explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth.
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The Men in My Life
- Narrated by: J. Michael McCullough
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 06-04-21
- Language: English
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The Yarn Whisperer
- My Unexpected Life in Knitting
- By: Clara Parkes
- Narrated by: Clara Parkes
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance39
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Stockinette, ribbing, cables, even the humble yarn over can instantly evoke places, times, people, conversations, all those poignant moments that we’ve tucked away in our memory banks. Over time, those stitches form a map of our lives. —From the preface In The Yarn Whisperer: Reflections on...
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Excellent.
- By helen on 14-12-16
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The Yarn Whisperer
- My Unexpected Life in Knitting
- Narrated by: Clara Parkes
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 07-06-16
- Language: English
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right
- Essays on Modern Life
- By: Pandora Sykes
- Narrated by: Pandora Sykes
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance360
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Incisive, wide-ranging and witty, it explores the questions, anxieties and agendas that consume our lives. Pandora Sykes interrogates the stories we’ve been sold and the ones we tell ourselves - from happiness to wellness, womanhood to consumerism - in ways that are both surprising and reassuring.
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Accent too posh but damn good book
- By Amazon Customer on 20-08-20
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right
- Essays on Modern Life
- Narrated by: Pandora Sykes
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 16-07-20
- Language: English
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Tibetan Peach Pie
- A True Account of an Imaginative Life
- By: Tom Robbins
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins' legendary memoir--wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe. Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home...
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Brilliantly narrated.
- By Robin Birney on 15-06-15
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Tibetan Peach Pie
- A True Account of an Imaginative Life
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 27-05-14
- Language: English
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Every Moment is a Life
- Gaza in the Time of Genocide
- By: susan abulhawa, Huzama Habayeb
- Narrated by: Ali Andre Ali, Victoria Nassif, Rasha Zamamiri
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Compiled by bestselling author susan abulhawa, an Arabic-English bilingual anthology of true stories from eighteen young Palestinian writers trying to survive the genocide in Gaza. In early 2024, writer and activist susan abulhawa managed to enter Gaza twice through the Rafah crossing. There, at...
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Thought provoking and disturbing stories
- By lucyb on 04-03-26
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Every Moment is a Life
- Gaza in the Time of Genocide
- Narrated by: Ali Andre Ali, Victoria Nassif, Rasha Zamamiri
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-02-26
- Language: English
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Re-Sisters
- The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
- By: Cosey Fanni Tutti
- Narrated by: Cosey Fanni Tutti
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film about Delia Derbyshire, the pioneering electronic composer who influenced the likes of Aphex Twin and The Chemical Brothers. While researching Derbyshire's life, Tutti became immersed in her story and uncovered fascinating parallels with her own life. At the same time, Tutti began reading about Margery Kempe, the fifteenth-century mystic visionary who wrote the first English-language autobiography. The connections between the three women soon shifted into focus.
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Essential non-conformity
- By Johan De Ryck on 29-05-23
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Re-Sisters
- The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
- Narrated by: Cosey Fanni Tutti
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 16-08-22
- Language: English
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Dispersals
- On Plants, Borders and Belonging. A poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worlds
- By: Jessica J. Lee
- Narrated by: Jessica J. Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. A poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worlds A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A seaweed drifts through an ocean. A tree is planted on a shifting border. A shrub is uprooted from its culture and its land...
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Dispersals
- On Plants, Borders and Belonging. A poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worlds
- Narrated by: Jessica J. Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 25-04-24
- Language: English
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Love That Story
- Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
- By: Jonathan Van Ness
- Narrated by: Jonathan Van Ness
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a new collection of heartfelt and entertaining essays. From experiencing heartbreaking grief to uncovering the hidden LGBTQ history of his hometown, Quincy, from overcoming body image issues and living with...
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JVN Forever ❤️
- By PJC2000 on 13-11-22
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Love That Story
- Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
- Narrated by: Jonathan Van Ness
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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Constellations
- Reflections From Life
- By: Sinéad Gleeson
- Narrated by: Sinéad Gleeson
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize The Number One Irish Bestseller 'Utterly magnificent. Raw, thought-provoking and galvanising; this is a book every woman should read.' Eimear McBride, author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing...
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A Sparkling Memoir
- By Miss Je Cooke on 14-08-20
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Constellations
- Reflections From Life
- Narrated by: Sinéad Gleeson
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 04-04-19
- Language: English
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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
- By: Samantha Irby
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby...where have you been? Samantha Irby is your sharp-tongued best friend who can't help but tell it like it is. In We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Irby laughs her way through her ridiculous life of failed relationships, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease and more. Written with scathing wit and poignant bluntness, these essays have earned Irby a dedicated fan base, have sold over 100,000 copies in the US and are the perfect introduction to this fresh, bold voice.
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Awful
- By Anonymous on 16-02-23
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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 03-01-19
- Language: English
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Prison Writings
- My Life Is My Sun Dance
- By: Leonard Peltier, Harvey Arden - editor
- Narrated by: Tatanka Means, Gary Farmer, Henry Strozier
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the Democratic National Committee unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977—his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen’s best-selling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse—and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. A wise and unsettling book, Prison Writings is both memoir and manifesto, chronicling Peltier’s life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas.
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Prison Writings
- My Life Is My Sun Dance
- Narrated by: Tatanka Means, Gary Farmer, Henry Strozier
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 19-11-24
- Language: English
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We All Come Home Alive
- A Life in Shocks
- By: Anna Beecher
- Narrated by: Anna Beecher
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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'Profoundly affecting' GUARDIAN 'Extraordinary. It made me cry' MELISSA HARRISON 'Wise and beautifully written' SINÉAD GLEESON 'Made me feel that I too was more alive' LUCY CALDWELL A life is made up of many shocks - The scream of wheels over asphalt as cars collide. The unexpected death of a...
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Beautifully written prose
- By Annie Hall on 03-02-26
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We All Come Home Alive
- A Life in Shocks
- Narrated by: Anna Beecher
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 30-01-25
- Language: English
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