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The Tower
- By: Thea Lenarduzzi
- Narrated by: Thea Lenarduzzi
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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Once upon a time, there was a tower on a hill, beyond the dark trees, somewhere north. An octagonal tower on two levels: glass upstairs and stone below, beneath a steep slate roof – a folly, it was said. According to locals, a young woman named Annie who fell ill was confined to the tower by her father for three years and died there, alone. Fascinated by Annie's story, Thea Lenarduzzi attempts to piece the past together in a formidable act of imagination, which, tugging at the strings of the how, why and who of stories, begins to unravel the very idea of storytelling itself.
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spellbinding
- By Amazon Customer on 25-10-25
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The Tower
- Narrated by: Thea Lenarduzzi
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 09-10-25
- Language: English
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Self Help
- By: Samuel Smiles
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Self Help was published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism". Self Help sold 20,000 copies within one year of its publication. By the time of Smiles' death in 1904, it had sold over a quarter of a million. Self-Help elevated Smiles to celebrity status; almost overnight, he became a leading pundit and much-consulted guru.
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Brilliant book, terrible narration!
- By Kindle Customer on 27-11-17
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Self Help
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 13-01-17
- Language: English
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Aspects of the Novel
- By: E. M. Forster
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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First given as a series of lectures at Cambridge University, Aspects of the Novel is Forster's analysis of this great literary form. Here he rejects the 'pseudoscholarship' of historical criticism - 'that great demon of chronology' - that considers writers in terms of the period in which they wrote and instead asks us to imagine the great novelists working together in a single room. He discusses aspects of people, plot, fantasy and rhythm, making illuminating comparisons between novelists, the features shared by their books and the ways in which they differ.
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Aspects of the Novel
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-01-23
- Language: English
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On the Genealogy of Morals
- The Classic Friedrich Nietzsche Collection
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In this daring and insightful work, Nietzsche lays bare the hypocrisies at the foundations of our ideas of morality. Considering ideas of good and evil, guilt and conscience, and law and violence along the way, On the Genealogy of Morals takes the listener on a journey through the history of value systems in three masterful essays.
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On the Genealogy of Morals
- The Classic Friedrich Nietzsche Collection
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 12-08-25
- 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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England Your England
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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During The Blitz of 1941, as Nazi bombers flew overhead, George Orwell penned this stirring analysis of England and its people. Whilst not shying away from the difficulties of the nation, and the fractuous nature of its divisions, Orwell places a premium on the country's ability to come together in a time of crisis and protect its democratic values, even in the most dire of circumstances.
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England Your England
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-01-22
- Language: English
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I Wrote This Book Because I Love You
- Essays
- By: Tim Kreider
- Narrated by: Tim Kreider
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance18
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*A People Top 10 Book of 2018* The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women. Psychologists have told him he’s a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he’s a philosopher...
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A life well lived
- By M. E-S on 19-06-18
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I Wrote This Book Because I Love You
- Essays
- Narrated by: Tim Kreider
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 06-02-18
- Language: English
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Call Them By Their True Names
- American Crises (and Essays)
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance11
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In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "[W]ith so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun or just shooting first and figuring out who they hit later."
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A galvanising collection
- By Amazon Customer on 13-01-24
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Call Them By Their True Names
- American Crises (and Essays)
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 04-09-18
- Language: English
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Everything in Its Place
- First Loves and Last Tales
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of On Gratitude and On the Move. In this spirited volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life – both as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences. Why do humans need gardens?...
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Everything in Its Place
- First Loves and Last Tales
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 24-06-21
- Language: English
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Politics and the English Language
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Within this essay, Orwell criticises the 'ugly and inaccurate' written English of his time and examines the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. The essay focuses on political language, which, according to Orwell, 'is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind'. Bad English, he believed, was a vehicle for oppressive ideology.
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Brilliant essay
- By S Davis on 15-06-25
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Politics and the English Language
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 42 mins
- Release date: 20-12-21
- Language: English
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I Love Russia
- Reporting from a Lost Country
- By: Elena Kostyuchenko, Ilona Chavasse - translator, Bela Shayevich - translator
- Narrated by: Tiana Yarik
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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I Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never heard. It is Elena Kostyuchenko’s courageous attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, patients and doctors at a Ukrainian maternity ward, and reporters like herself. At once uncompromising and deeply humane, it stitches reportage and personal essays into a kaleidoscopic, often other-worldly journey. Here is Russia as it is, not as we imagine it.
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disgruntled
- By Kindle Customer on 17-01-26
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I Love Russia
- Reporting from a Lost Country
- Narrated by: Tiana Yarik
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 30-11-23
- Language: English
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Why I Write
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 21 mins
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In this essay, Orwell describes his personal journey to becoming a writer and offers some important motives for writing. Moving from his experience of writing his first completed poems to trying his hand at short stories, to finding fame as a fully fledged writer, Orwell discusses the importance of writing, his continuous technique and sets out some important motives for becoming a writer yourself.
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Why I Write
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 21 mins
- Release date: 20-12-21
- Language: English
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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
- By: Henry Miller
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In his great triptych The Millennium, Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for 15 years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place - one of the most colorful in the United States - and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there.
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Honesty
- By Tano88 on 19-02-24
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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 21-05-19
- Language: English
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Safe
- On Black British Men Reclaiming Space
- By: Derek Owusu
- Narrated by: Alex Holmes, Alex Wheatle, Aniefiok ‘Neef’ Ekpoudom, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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What is the experience of black men in Britain? With continued conversation around British identity, racism and diversity, there is no better time to explore this question and give black British men a platform to answer it. Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space is that platform. Including essays from top poets, writers, musicians, actors and journalists, this timely and accessible book brings together a selection of powerful reflections exploring the black British male experience and what it really means to reclaim and hold space in the landscape of our society.
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Relatable and insightful
- By Mr O S Lawal on 25-11-24
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Safe
- On Black British Men Reclaiming Space
- Narrated by: Alex Holmes, Alex Wheatle, Aniefiok ‘Neef’ Ekpoudom, Courttia Newland, Derek Owusu, Gbontwi Anyetei, Jesse Bernard, JJ Bola, Joseph Harker, Jude Yawson, Kenechukwu Obienu, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Nels Abbey, Okechukwu Nzelu, full cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-03-19
- Language: English
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Souvenir
- By: Michael Bracewell
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant 'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some things for me - a certain aesthetic, a philosophical engagement with time and poignant beauty and lived history that I have found myself looking for, and not finding, elsewhere in recent...
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Souvenir
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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Crushmore
- Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-of-Age
- By: Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari, Nava Kavelin
- Narrated by: Nava Kavelin, Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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In this poignant, funny, and illuminating essay collection from the hosts of the Podcrushed podcast, Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari, and Nava Kavelin tackle stories from adolescence and beyond, exploring what it means to come of age at every stage of our lives. In their debut essay collection, Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari, and Nava Kavelin flip the script on their hit Podcrushed podcast--which features guests' stories about their formative teenage experiences--to share their own stories of heartbreak, anxiety, and self-discovery for the first time.
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Truly relatable!
- By Anonymous on 19-10-25
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Crushmore
- Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-of-Age
- Narrated by: Nava Kavelin, Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 14-10-25
- 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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Here Is New York
- By: E. B. White
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the 10 best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker called it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city".
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Poetic nostalgia
- By Amazon Customer on 16-10-22
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Here Is New York
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Release date: 21-04-16
- Language: English
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Alligator Tears
- A Memoir in Essays
- By: Edgar Gomez
- Narrated by: Edgar Gomez
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual “Relatable, funny and deeply heartfelt, this memoir is one not to miss.”—Today “Edgar Gomez is a young...
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Stunning book
- By Juri on 23-03-26
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Alligator Tears
- A Memoir in Essays
- Narrated by: Edgar Gomez
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 11-02-25
- Language: English
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Insomniac City
- New York, Oliver, and Me
- By: Bill Hayes
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at 48 years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city's incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, and New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera.
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Informative and moving in equal measure!
- By Patricia Ann Smith on 18-04-23
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Insomniac City
- New York, Oliver, and Me
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 14-02-17
- Language: English
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