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Lives of Houses
- By: Kate Kennedy - editor
- Narrated by: Richard Pryal, Kate Kennedy, Lisa Coleman, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past.
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Lives of Houses
- Narrated by: Richard Pryal, Kate Kennedy, Lisa Coleman, Hermione Lee, Phyllida Nash, Hermione Lee - editor
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 24-03-20
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Essays Collection: 29 of the Greatest Essays Ever Written from George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Zorea Neale Huston, Langston Hughes, Jack London, & More
- Common Sense, Notes on Nationalism, A Modest Proposal, A Room of One’s Own, Common Sense, How it Feels to be Coloured Me, Self-Reliance, The Crack Up, The Weary Blues, Walden, Why I Write, & More
- By: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade, Ian Porter, Ako Mitchell, and others
- Length: 85 hrs
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The Ultimate Essays Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 30 classic essays analysing everything from war to love, journalism to race, travel to nature, and much more, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are essays by some of the greatest writers of all time, including George Orwell; Thomas Paine; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Henry David Thoreau; Virigina Woolf; Sigmund Freud; Zorea Neale Huston; Langston Hughes; Jack London, and more.
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The Ultimate Essays Collection: 29 of the Greatest Essays Ever Written from George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Zorea Neale Huston, Langston Hughes, Jack London, & More
- Common Sense, Notes on Nationalism, A Modest Proposal, A Room of One’s Own, Common Sense, How it Feels to be Coloured Me, Self-Reliance, The Crack Up, The Weary Blues, Walden, Why I Write, & More
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade, Ian Porter, Ako Mitchell, Peter Noble, Karen Cass, Kenneth Jay, Nerissa Bradley, Robin Laing, Malk Williams
- Length: 85 hrs
- Release date: 27-08-26
- Language: English
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Want
- Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
- By: Gillian Anderson
- Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, uncredited
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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A collection of sexual fantasies from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational, and game-changing exploration of women’s sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous? “The book you hold in your hands started...
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Want
- Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
- Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, uncredited
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 17-09-24
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
- By: HRF Keating - editor, Sophie Hannah
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts, Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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Agatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself, giving only the rarest interviews, declining absolutely to become any sort of public figure and a mystery too in the manner in which she achieved her astonishing success. HRF Keating, a crime novelist and respected reviewer of crime fiction, brought together a dozen distinguished writers from both sides of the Atlantic to throw light on this double mystery.
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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts, Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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The Queer Bible
- By: Jack Guinness
- Narrated by: Jack Guinness, full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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The Queer Bible is a collection of essays written by queer icons, about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to Graham Norton on Armistead Maupin; Russell Tovey on David Robilliard to Lady Phyll on Moud Goba; Tan France on the Queer Eye cast to Mae Martin on Tim Curry, today’s queer heroes write about the icons that provided a creative inspiration to them.
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A great book!
- By Tracy :) on 23-02-22
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The Queer Bible
- Narrated by: Jack Guinness, full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 17-06-21
- Language: English
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My Caesarean
- Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After
- By: Amanda Fields - Editor, Rachel Moritz - Editor
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Janina Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Alongside their personal stories, the writers -decorated novelists, poets, and essayists - address the history of the C-section as well as its risks, social inequities, impact on the body, and psychological aftermath. My Caesarean is a heartfelt meditation, offering much-needed comfort through shared experience.
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don't waste your money
- By holly on 10-11-25
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My Caesarean
- Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Janina Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-05-19
- Language: English
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Other Colours
- By: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrated by: John Lee, Maureen Freely
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
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Other Colours is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art. It also covers Pamuk's recent, high profile, court case.
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Brilliant
- By Melanie on 11-10-23
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Other Colours
- Narrated by: John Lee, Maureen Freely
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 06-09-18
- Language: English
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Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
- By: Michael Chabon
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood. You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you...
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A little journey into family - male perspective
- By Craig Nicolson on 30-08-21
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Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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Black Voices on Britain
- By: Hakim Adi - editor
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch, Debra Michaels, Hakim Adi
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library. Professor Hakim Adi, shortlisted for the...
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Black Voices on Britain
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch, Debra Michaels, Hakim Adi
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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Searches
- By: Vauhini Vara
- Narrated by: Vauhini Vara, Anastasia Davidson
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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When it was released to the public in 2022, ChatGPT awakened the world to a secretive project: teaching A.I.-powered machines to write and talk like human beings. Its creators had a sweeping ambition—to get machines to communicate for us. But if this came to pass, would it be liberation or subjugation?
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Interesting subject, too many similar details
- By Jos on 04-06-25
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Searches
- Narrated by: Vauhini Vara, Anastasia Davidson
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-05-25
- Language: English
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Don't Let Me Be Lonely
- An American Lyric
- By: Claudia Rankine
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the recognition that a life can not matter. The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric and the essay in this politically and morally fierce examination of solitude in the rapacious and media-driven assault on selfhood that is contemporary America.
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No regrets
- By Roly on 04-03-26
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Don't Let Me Be Lonely
- An American Lyric
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 09-11-21
- Language: English
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Rusia mea
- Perspectiva unui scriitor autoexilat în Occident
- By: Mihail Șișkin, Adriana Dănilă - Traducător
- Narrated by: Alexandru Mike Gheorghiu
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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În acest eseu de o impresionantă luciditate, Mihail Șișkin demontează mitul conform căruia Rusia este o „enigmă învăluită într-un mister" și susține că pur și simplu nu știm suficiente lucruri despre ea. Așadar, care este adevărata poveste din spatele regimului autocratic al lui Putin și al invaziei sale în Ucraina? Șișkin urmărește rădăcinile problemelor Rusiei, pornind de la „Rutenia (Rusia Kieveană)", trecând prin Marele Ducat al Moscovei, imperiu, revoluție și Războiul Rece, până la Federația Rusă creată acum mai bine de treizeci de ani.
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Rusia mea
- Perspectiva unui scriitor autoexilat în Occident
- Narrated by: Alexandru Mike Gheorghiu
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 19-06-25
- Language: Romanian
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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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What to Read and Why
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above all others, from Jane Austen and Charles...
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What to Read and Why
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-07-18
- Language: English
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Persian Pictures
- By: Gertrude Bell
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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In 1892, Gertrude Bell visited Persia (now Iran) shortly after the appointment of her uncle, Sir Frank Lascelles, as British minister in Tehran. Three years later came Persian Pictures, Gertrude Bell’s first written work, which presents a series of vivid sketches of Persian culture and society at the time. Bell explores various cities and landscapes, and encounters local characters along the way, providing a unique perspective on Persian life and customs.
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Persian Pictures
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-07-24
- Language: English
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Expletives Deleted
- By: Angela Carter
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist. This selection of her writing, which she made herself, covers more than a decade of her thought and ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a true measure of the wide focus of her interests: the brothers Grimm; William Burroughs; food writing, Elizabeth David; British writing; American writing....
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- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-03-18
- Language: English
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Culture Creep
- Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
- By: Alice Bolin
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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"This book re-framed my entire adolescence. I highly recommend you read it." — LING MA From the critically acclaimed author of Dead Girls (“stylish and inspired”—New York Times Book Review), a sharp, engrossing collection of essays that explore the strange career of popular feminism and...
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Culture Creep
- Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-06-25
- Language: English
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Sri Aurobindo & India's Rebirth
- By: Michel Danino
- Narrated by: Raja Sevak
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Revolutionary, philosopher, litterateur, and seer, Sri Aurobindo remains one of the brightest minds India has ever had. This book captures the evolution of his thought through excerpts from his political articles and speeches, essays, talks with and letters to disciples and public messages - presented chronologically. It includes his views on Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose; his doubts about Gandhi’s method to attain freedom and insistence on Ahimsa; and his very distinctive contribution to the nascent Nationalist Movement.
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Aurobindo’s intellect
- By Gaurang Patel on 07-02-25
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Sri Aurobindo & India's Rebirth
- Narrated by: Raja Sevak
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 08-12-18
- Language: English
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Intelligence for Dummies
- Essays and Other Collected Writings
- By: Glenn O'Brien
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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A portrait of a keen social observer at the center of the last 50 years of cultural life, captured through a vivid selection of O’Brien’s own writings on music to fashion to downtown art and, just as importantly and unexpectedly, the political temperature of America. Glenn O’Brien collaborated with visual artists, writers, fashion houses, and musicians throughout his almost 50-year career. Intelligence for Dummies gathers Glenn O’Brien’s essays, aphorisms and tweets, to create a portrait of the artist as cultural bellwether.
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Intelligence for Dummies
- Essays and Other Collected Writings
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-04-23
- Language: English
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The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
- By: Dorothy Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Sarah Lambie
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Begun in 1797, when William was at the height of his poetic powers, The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals provide invaluable insight into the daily lives of Dorothy and William Wordsworth, William’s friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the incidents that inspired some of his greatest poems. Richly immersive and intimately domestic, the Journals transport the listener to life in the Lake District 200 years ago as Dorothy describes the Lake District countryside, her garden and neighbours, keeping house, going on walks, and the people she meets along the way
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The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
- Narrated by: Sarah Lambie
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-10-24
- Language: English
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