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The Quest for Queen Mary
- James Pope-Hennessy's official biography of Queen Mary, edited by 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - Financial Times
- By: James Pope-Hennessy, Hugo Vickers
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Tim Bentinck
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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A charming account of the life of enigmatic Queen Mary, wife of King George V, and a magnetic portrait of a vanished age 'Gloriously indiscreet . . . the best royal book ever' - Harry Mount, Financial Times When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's official biography, it opened the...
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Maddening foot notes!
- By Ruby G on 17-01-19
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The Quest for Queen Mary
- James Pope-Hennessy's official biography of Queen Mary, edited by 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - Financial Times
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Tim Bentinck
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 28-09-18
- Language: English
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Mondrian
- His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
- By: Nicholas Fox Weber
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE The extraordinary and surprising life of Piet Mondrian, whose unprecedented geometric art revolutionized modern painting, architecture, graphic art, fashion design, and more—from acclaimed cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber "As...
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Mondrian
- His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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A Death in Malta
- An Assassination and a Family’s Quest for Justice
- By: Paul Caruana Galizia
- Narrated by: Paul Caruana Galizia
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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When Paul Caruana Galizia was at work in London, his eldest brother called to say their mother Daphne had just been assassinated. That day, he returned to their native Malta and, with his two brothers and their father, began a quest to discover who was responsible for Daphne's murder and who stood to profit from ending the life of a journalist whose courage and determination threatened the powerful with the truth. Two years later, they did.
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Murder in Paradise
- By Graham G Grant on 03-01-24
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A Death in Malta
- An Assassination and a Family’s Quest for Justice
- Narrated by: Paul Caruana Galizia
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 26-10-23
- Language: English
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High Caucasus
- A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland
- By: Tom Parfitt
- Narrated by: Tom Parfitt
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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On 1 September 2004, Chechen and Ingush militants took more than a thousand people captive at a school in the Caucasus region of southern Russia. Working as a correspondent, Tom Parfitt witnessed the bloody climax in which 314 hostages died, more than half of them children. The experience left Tom emotionally shredded, struggling to find a way to return to his life in Moscow and put to rest the ghosts of the Beslan siege. Having long been fascinated by the mountainous North Caucasus, Tom turned to his love of walking as a source of both recuperation and discovery.
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Incredibly interesting
- By Jack Veitch on 29-01-25
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High Caucasus
- A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland
- Narrated by: Tom Parfitt
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 20-07-23
- Language: English
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The Know-It-All
- One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
- By: A. J. Jacobs
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Cantor
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Early in his career, A.J. Jacobs put his Ivy League education to work at Entertainment Weekly. He emerged five years later knowing which stars have fake boobs, which stars have toupees, which have both, and not much else. This realization led Jacobs on a life-changing quest: to read the entire contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 33,000 pages, all 44 million words.
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Just Brilliant!
- By Janice on 28-09-13
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The Know-It-All
- One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Cantor
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 20-10-04
- Language: English
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How to Be Avant-Garde
- Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art
- By: Morgan Falconer
- Narrated by: Brian Wiggins
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of World War I, avant-garde artists and writers sought to destroy art by transforming it into the substance of everyday life. Following the evolution of these revolutionary groups, How to Be Avant-Garde charts its pioneers and radical ideas.
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Tedious and not well narrated
- By Moomintroll on 27-04-25
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How to Be Avant-Garde
- Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art
- Narrated by: Brian Wiggins
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 19-02-25
- Language: English
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The Quest for Corvo
- An Experiment in Biography
- By: A.J.A. Symons
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A.J.A. Symons discovered Frederick Rolfe’s Hadrian the Seventh in 1925 and became consumed with fascination for its eccentric author, aka ‘Baron Corvo’. His ‘quest’ takes the form of an irresistible detective story, the twists and turns of his investigation into Rolfe’s unfortunate life resulting in a groundbreaking form of biography that reveals much about both men.
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Biography as detective story
- By RCM on 27-11-23
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The Quest for Corvo
- An Experiment in Biography
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 09-08-23
- Language: English
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This Earthly Globe
- A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
- By: Andrea Di Robilant
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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During the Age of Discovery a little-known public servant in the Venetian government, Giovambattista Ramusio, anonymously assembled and edited three volumes—over two million words—that revealed our world as never before. It was, to use a current expression, the biggest Wikileak of the Renaissance. In an enthralling narrative, Andrea di Robilant brings to vivid life the man who used all his political skill, along with the help of conniving diplomats and spies, to ferret out a remarkable collection of journals, private letters and classified government reports.
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This Earthly Globe
- A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 15-08-24
- Language: English
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Not Less than Everything
- One Man’s Quest for Spiritual Enlightenment
- By: August Turak
- Narrated by: August Turak
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
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Not Less Than Everything: One Man’s Quest for Spiritual Enlightenment is the inspirational true story of how author, August Turak overcame depression and meaningless despair through a daring quest for life’s ultimate meaning and purpose.
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Not Less than Everything
- One Man’s Quest for Spiritual Enlightenment
- Narrated by: August Turak
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 05-02-24
- Language: English
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Conan Doyle for the Defense
- The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
- By: Margalit Fox
- Narrated by: Peter Forbes
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the Woods A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to...
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Conan Doyle for the Defense
- The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
- Narrated by: Peter Forbes
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 26-06-18
- Language: English
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How I Became a Human Being
- A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence
- By: Mark O'Brien, Gillian Kendall - preface
- Narrated by: David A. Gilmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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How I Became a Human Being is Mark O’Brien’s account of his struggles to lead an independent life despite a lifelong disability. In 1955 he contracted polio and became permanently paralyzed from the neck down. O’Brien describes growing up without the use of his limbs, his adolescence struggling with physical rehabilitation and suffering the bureaucracy of hospitals and institutions, and his adult life as an independent student and writer. Despite his physical limitations, O’Brien crafts a narrative that is as rich and vivid as the life he led.
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How I Became a Human Being
- A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence
- Narrated by: David A. Gilmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 13-05-14
- Language: English
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A Death in Malta
- An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice
- By: Paul Caruana Galizia
- Narrated by: Paul Caruana Galizia
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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“A chronicle of the sort of silencing-by-murder that we might have thought happens only in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. . . . [and] a son’s distraught but beautiful tribute to his journalist-mother. . . . Exquisite.” —Wall Street Journal A journalist’s spellbinding account of the...
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A Death in Malta
- An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice
- Narrated by: Paul Caruana Galizia
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-11-23
- Language: English
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Talking to Girls About Duran Duran
- One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
- By: Rob Sheffield
- Narrated by: Scott Sheppard
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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The author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape returns, with a different-but equally personal and equally universal- pin on music as memory."No rock critic-living or dead, American or otherwise-has ever written about pop music with the evocative, hyperpoetic perfectitude of Rob...
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Talking to Girls About Duran Duran
- One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
- Narrated by: Scott Sheppard
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 15-07-10
- Language: English
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For the Dream
- How One Man's Quest to Create the World's Greatest Recorder Trio Nearly Cost Him Everything
- By: Vaughn Guthrie
- Narrated by: Vaughn Guthrie
- Length: 27 mins
- Unabridged
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What would you do for a dream? How much would you be willing to sacrifice to make it come true? Your friends? Career? Family? Chuck Linton, 32, has been asking himself these questions over the past few months, as his local music group, a recorder trio named “Adventure”, has taken its toll on Chuck’s professional and family life.
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For the Dream
- How One Man's Quest to Create the World's Greatest Recorder Trio Nearly Cost Him Everything
- Narrated by: Vaughn Guthrie
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 26-12-18
- Language: English
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