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Monsters of the Week
- The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files
- By: Zack Handlen, Todd VanDerWerff, Chris Carter - foreword
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1993, Fox debuted a strange new television show called The X-Files. Little did anyone suspect that the series would become one of the network's biggest hits - and change the landscape of television in the process. Now, on the occasion of the show's 25th anniversary, TV critics Zack Handlen and Todd VanDerWerff unpack exactly what made this haunting show so groundbreaking. Witty and insightful reviews of every episode of the series, revised and updated from the authors' popular A.V. Club recaps, leave no mystery unsolved and no monster unexplained.
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We get it. You're not shippers.
- By T Lewis on 06-10-21
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Monsters of the Week
- The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 16-10-18
- Language: English
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An Anthropologist on Mars
- A collection of fascinating case studies on the human mind, from the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall73
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Performance59
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As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us...
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The genius of Oliver Sacks
- By Chris on 02-06-19
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An Anthropologist on Mars
- A collection of fascinating case studies on the human mind, from the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 12-07-18
- Language: English
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Changing My Mind
- By: Julian Barnes
- Narrated by: Julian Barnes
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In this engaging and erudite essay, critically acclaimed writer Julian Barnes explores what is involved when we change our minds: about words, about politics, about books; about memories, age and time.
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Changing My Mind
- Narrated by: Julian Barnes
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 19-03-25
- Language: English
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Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories
- An autobiographical collection from the global bestselling crime thriller writer
- By: Lee Child
- Narrated by: Lee Child, Jeff Harding
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance34
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Brought to you by Penguin. From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child’s first-ever autobiographical collection. On Monday September 5th, 1994, at home, at the dining room table, I sat down to write. An hour later, I gave the first chapter to my wife. I asked, “Should...
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Journey
- By Ali Bentley on 18-01-26
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Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories
- An autobiographical collection from the global bestselling crime thriller writer
- Narrated by: Lee Child, Jeff Harding
- Series: Jack Reacher
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-09-25
- 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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Overall26
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Performance26
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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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Boomers
- The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster
- By: Helen Andrews
- Narrated by: Nicole Parnell
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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"Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews."--Terry Castle With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children's favorite punching bag. But is the...
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Boomers
- The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster
- Narrated by: Nicole Parnell
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 12-01-21
- Language: English
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United States: Essays 1952-1992
- By: Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 60 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance4
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Gore Vidal’s reputation as America’s finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states. State of the art covers literature, including novelists and critics, bestsellers, pieces on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Suetonius, Nabakov, and Montaigne (a previosly uncollected essay from 1992).
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What is better than Gore Vidal
- By Pen Name on 29-08-23
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United States: Essays 1952-1992
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 60 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 31-12-19
- Language: English
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The Four Horsemen
- The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution Foreword by Stephen Fry
- By: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall665
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Performance573
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Brought to you by Penguin. Known as the ‘four horsemen’ of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed...
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I miss Hitch
- By Rachel on 23-03-19
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The Four Horsemen
- The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution Foreword by Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Fry
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 14-02-19
- Language: English
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We Are Not Numbers
- The Voices of Gaza’s Youth. The Sunday Times Bestseller
- By: Ahmed Alnaouq, Pam Bailey
- Narrated by: Ahmed Alnaouq, Sarah Agha, George Kreitem
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A teenage girl stares at her roof, hoping it won’t collapse over her head. A young student searches the Internet for photos of libraries around the world, hoping he’ll be able to visit them one day. Another walks around the city, taking notes of all the buildings...
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Reality
- By Ariala on 11-03-26
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We Are Not Numbers
- The Voices of Gaza’s Youth. The Sunday Times Bestseller
- Narrated by: Ahmed Alnaouq, Sarah Agha, George Kreitem
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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Summer
- By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ingvild Burkey - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses short, vividly descriptive essays with emotionally raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard's newborn daughter. Writing more expansively and, if it is possible, even more intimately and unguardedly than in the previous three volumes, he mines with new depth his difficult memories of his childhood and fraught relationship with his own father.
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Summer
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 21-08-18
- Language: English
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The Call of the Weird
- Travels in American Subcultures
- By: Louis Theroux
- Narrated by: Louis Theroux
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
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Overall1,204
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Performance1,009
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Read by the author, this is Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America. For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to...
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One of my favourite downloads so far
- By CA Weir on 26-06-07
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The Call of the Weird
- Travels in American Subcultures
- Narrated by: Louis Theroux
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-06-07
- Language: English
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Where the Hearth Is
- Stories of Home
- By: Kate Humble
- Narrated by: Kate Humble
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance19
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Kate Humble has a knack for sharing her own journey towards a more pleasing and purposeful life in a way that inspires listeners, enables them to reassess their own lives and helps them achieve their personal goals. Having encouraged listeners to reconnect with nature in Thinking on My Feet and simplify their lifestyles in A Year of Living Simply, she turns now to reimagining the ideal home.
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So enjoyable.
- By agroovychick on 24-08-25
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Where the Hearth Is
- Stories of Home
- Narrated by: Kate Humble
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 28-09-23
- Language: English
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Abridged
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Overall257
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Performance184
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Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...
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Another great clearing in the jungle from CJ
- By Matt on 17-05-08
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-04-08
- Language: English
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Feel Free
- Essays
- By: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall73
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Performance65
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Feel Free by Zadie Smith, read by Nikki Amuka-Bird. From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable collection of essays from Zadie Smith 'Generous, courageous, and...
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Fascinating
- By Philip on 21-01-19
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Feel Free
- Essays
- Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-02-18
- Language: English
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Pulphead
- Essays
- By: John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Narrated by: John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Boston Globe, and Entertainment Weekly A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape―from high to low to lower than low―by the award-winning young star of...
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Fascinating Essays
- By Richard Holden on 12-09-23
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Pulphead
- Essays
- Narrated by: John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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White Cap and Bails
- Adventures of a much loved Umpire, the sequel to the bestselling autobiography of the legendary late cricket umpire
- By: Dickie Bird, Mr H D Bird
- Narrated by: Graham Roberts
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In this new anecdotal book, the unstoppable Dickie Bird takes one County Cricket Club at a time and revisits each with the aid of memorabilia, statistics, books and videos. A mass of new hilarious stories flow from Dickie as he flexes his memory: he describes the cricketers, the matches and the...
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A BOOK OF CRICKET HISTORY
- By Amazon Customer on 14-03-19
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White Cap and Bails
- Adventures of a much loved Umpire, the sequel to the bestselling autobiography of the legendary late cricket umpire
- Narrated by: Graham Roberts
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 12-01-12
- Language: English
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Consider the Lobster
- And Other Essays
- By: David Foster Wallace
- Narrated by: David Foster Wallace
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
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Overall197
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Performance165
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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the...
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Excellent essays, but poor value
- By Paul B on 21-05-20
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Consider the Lobster
- And Other Essays
- Narrated by: David Foster Wallace
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 13-12-05
- Language: English
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne
- By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Donald M. Frame - translator
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 49 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall71
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Performance57
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“A faithful translation is rare; a translation which preserves intact the original text is very rare; a perfect translation of Montaigne appears impossible. Yet Donald Frame has realized this feat. One does not seem to be reading a translation, so smooth and easy is the style; at each moment, one seems to be listening to Montaigne himself - the freshness of his ideas, the unexpected choice of words. Frame has kept everything.” (Andre Maurois, The New York Times Book Review)
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a singular experience
- By Curran on 28-08-13
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 49 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 20-09-11
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago. First published in 1937 it charts George Orwell's observations of working-class life during the 1930s in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. His depictions of social injustice and rising unemployment, the dangerous working conditions in the mines amid general squalor and hunger also bring together many of the ideas explored in his later works and novels.
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Censored? A classic?
- By boudica on 17-08-18
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-03-12
- 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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