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Bittersweet
- How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
- By: Susan Cain
- Narrated by: Susan Cain
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Bittersweetness recognises that light and dark, birth and death—bitter and sweet—are forever paired. As Bittersweet shows, our obsession with happiness is not making us happy, healthy or whole. It's only by embracing our darker emotions—as well as the light—that we discover our deepest meaning and connection, love and joy. It can change the way we work, the way we create and the way we love—for it is the hidden source of our love stories, moonshots and masterpieces.
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Therapy through words
- By Mr G A Fereos on 15-05-22
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Bittersweet
- How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
- Narrated by: Susan Cain
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 21-04-22
- Language: English
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Real Estate
- Living Autobiography 3
- By: Deborah Levy
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Following the international critical acclaim of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Deborah Levy's Living Autobiography is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it.
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Very interesting and also touching!
- By Maria Johanna Theresia Schobre on 26-06-21
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Real Estate
- Living Autobiography 3
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Series: Living Autobiography, Book 3
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-05-21
- 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
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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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Problems with pacing, very annoying performance
- By Miss_Nessie on 01-05-24
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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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Mouth Full of Blood
- Essays, Speeches, Meditations
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation. The sweep of American history and the current state of politics. The duty of the press and the role of the artist. Throughout A Mouth Full of Blood our search for truth, moral integrity and expertise is met by Toni Morrison with controlled anger, elegance and literary excellence.
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Outstanding
- By Amazon Customer on 15-03-21
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Mouth Full of Blood
- Essays, Speeches, Meditations
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 21-02-19
- Language: English
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We Can Do Better Than This
- An urgent manifesto for how we can shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people
- By: Amelia Abraham - editor
- Narrated by: Amelia Abraham, Owen Jones, Peppermint, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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We talk about achieving 'LGBTQ+ equality', but around the world, LGBTQ+ people are still suffering discrimination and extreme violence. How do we solve this urgent problem, allowing queer people everywhere the opportunity to thrive? In We Can Do Better Than This, 35 voices explore this question. Through deeply moving stories and provocative new arguments on safety and visibility, dating and gender, care and community, they map new global frontiers in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.
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Inspirational
- By E. Mulliner on 19-06-23
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We Can Do Better Than This
- An urgent manifesto for how we can shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people
- Narrated by: Amelia Abraham, Owen Jones, Peppermint, Amrou Al-Kadhi, Yasmin Benoit, Wolfgang Tillmans, Naoise Dolan, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Travis Alabanza
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-06-21
- Language: English
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OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea
- By: Patrick Freyne
- Narrated by: Patrick Freyne
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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Patrick Freyne has tried a lot of stupid ideas in his life. Now, in his scintillating debut, he is here to tell you about them: like the time (aged five) he opened a gate and let a horse out of its field, just to see what would happen; or the time (aged 19) he jumped out of a plane for charity, even though he didn't much care about the charity and was sure he'd end up dead; or the time (aged old enough to know better) he used a magazine as a funnel for fuel when the petrol cap on his band's van broke.
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Be wary of listening in public
- By Sue murphy on 12-10-20
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OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea
- Narrated by: Patrick Freyne
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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Once There Was a War
- Penguin Classics
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Do you know it, do you remember it, the drives, the attitudes, the terrors and, yes, the joys? Thus Steinbeck introduces his collection of poignant and hard-hitting dispatches for the New York Herald Tribune when the Second World War was at its height. He begins in England, recounting the courage of the bomber crews, the tragic air-raids and the strangeness of the British, before being sent to Africa and joining a special operations unit off the coast of Italy.
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Very good insight
- By Amazon Customer on 07-01-24
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Once There Was a War
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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Collected Essays
- By: Graham Greene
- Narrated by: Michael Shelford, Stephane Cornicard
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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Collected Essays contains nearly 80 essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four prolific decades. From Henry James and Somerset Maugham to Ho Chi Minh and Kim Philby, the range of subjects is eclectic and stimulating, his subjects brought vividly to life. The resulting collection is as revealing as autobiography and characteristically rich in humour, insight and doubt.
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Collected Essays
- Narrated by: Michael Shelford, Stephane Cornicard
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 10-12-20
- Language: English
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300,000 Kisses
- Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World
- By: Luke Edward Hall, Seán Hewitt
- Narrated by: André Santana
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous narratives are widely known - yet there's a rich literary tradition of Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond this handful of stories. Here, the poet Seán Hewitt and painter Luke Edward Hall collect together, for the first time, forty of the most exhilarating queer tales in the classical canon and bring them newly to life.
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300,000 Kisses
- Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World
- Narrated by: André Santana
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-10-23
- Language: English
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On Women
- By: Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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Bringing together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing, On Women examines the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation. First written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays examine the 'biological division of labour', the double standard for ageing and the struggle for real power, topics which are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. For any Sontag fan, this collection of lost essays is a revelation into her achievements as an essayist.
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On Women
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 01-06-23
- Language: English
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How to Ruin Everything
- Essays
- By: George Watsky
- Narrated by: George Watsky
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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Are you a sensible, universally competent individual? Are you tired of the crushing monotony of leaping gracefully from one lily pad of success to the next? Are you sick of doing everything right? In this brutally honest and humorous debut, musician and artist George Watsky chronicles the small triumphs over humiliation that make life bearable and how he has come to accept defeat as necessary to personal progress. The essays in How to Ruin Everything range from the absurd (how he became an international ivory smuggler) to the comical, to the revelatory.
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Funny, clever and touching. Brilliant storytelling
- By luc on 14-09-23
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How to Ruin Everything
- Essays
- Narrated by: George Watsky
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 14-06-16
- Language: English
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The Collected Schizophrenias
- By: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started years before that. In the midst of a high functioning life at Yale, Stanford and the literary world, she would find herself floored by an overwhelming terror that 'spread like blood', or convinced that she was dead, or that her friends were robots, or spiders were eating holes in her brain.
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boring
- By Shann Mitchell on 08-10-23
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The Collected Schizophrenias
- Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 08-08-19
- Language: English
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Between Meals
- An Appetite for Paris
- By: A. J. Liebling
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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While on a year of study in Paris in 1927, Liebling acquired the friendship and tutelage of Yves Mirande, 'one of the last great Gastronomes of France', beginning a joyous apprenticeship in the fine art of eating. Told with gluttonous joie de vivre, Between Meals expounds on the delights and pitfalls of a life dedicated to food, from bad rosé ('a pinkish cross between No-Cal and vinegar') to lobster a l'Américaine, to a memorable stay at a Swiss slimming-clinic with a masseur named Sprudli.
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Between Meals
- An Appetite for Paris
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-09-23
- Language: English
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Openhearted
- Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go
- By: Ann Ingle
- Narrated by: Ann Ingle, Michael Ingle
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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At 20, Londoner Ann Ingle fell madly in love with an Irish fellow she met on holiday in Cornwall. At the church to arrange their shotgun wedding, she discovered that he hadn't even told her his real name. Sixty-odd years later, Ann looks back on that first glorious fall, and in a series of essays considers what she has learned from the life that followed.
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Beautifully written and honest
- By Roisin Patricia Gavin on 12-12-21
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Openhearted
- Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go
- Narrated by: Ann Ingle, Michael Ingle
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 23-09-21
- Language: English
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Languages of Truth
- Essays 2003-2020
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie, Raj Ghatak
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, including several never previously published, Languages of Truth chronicles a period of momentous cultural shifts. Across a wide variety of subjects, Rushdie delves into the nature of storytelling as a deeply human need, and what emerges is a love letter to literature itself. Throughout, Rushdie shares his personal encounters, on the page and in person, with storytellers from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison, and revels in the creative lines that can join art and life.
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I now like the writer as much as I love his books
- By Eva Hnizdo on 29-08-22
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Languages of Truth
- Essays 2003-2020
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie, Raj Ghatak
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 27-05-21
- Language: English
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The Hard Crowd
- Essays 2000-2020
- By: Rachel Kushner
- Narrated by: Rachel Kushner
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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In her 20s Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000. As fellow racers died on the roadside, bikes were stolen and friends abandoned one another in the heat of the chase, she crashed at 130mph and miraculously survived; soon after, she decided to leave her controlling boyfriend and manoeuvred her way into a freer new life.
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The Hard Crowd
- Essays 2000-2020
- Narrated by: Rachel Kushner
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 08-04-21
- Language: English
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Imaginary Homelands
- Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
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Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. With candour, eloquence and indignation he carefully examines an expanse of topics; including the politics of India and Pakistan, censorship, the Labour Party, Palestinian identity, contemporary film and late-20th century race, religion and politics.
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Imaginary Homelands
- Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 05-11-20
- Language: English
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Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother’s story, only to return to the sudden loss of her marriage, home, and reality. In Magical/Realism, Villarreal crosses into the erasure of memory and self, fragmented by migration, borders, and colonial and intimate violence, reconstructing her story with pieces of American pop culture, and the music, video games, and fantasy that have helped her make sense of it all.
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Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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Dickens and Prince
- A Particular Kind of Genius
- By: Nick Hornby
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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What could possibly connect Prince, the great 20th century singer songwriter and Charles Dickens, the great writer of classics usually stuffed into the hands of adolescents too early? What could these two geniuses, one born in 1812 in England, and the other in 1950s Minneapolis, have in common? Tracing their lives, from the early years to their relationships with women, their finances to their inability to stop working, Dickens and Prince is a brilliantly surprising and joyous uncovering of the essence of a very particular and unique type of genius.
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Compact and fabulous- like Prince!
- By Kindle Customer on 07-06-23
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Dickens and Prince
- A Particular Kind of Genius
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 27-10-22
- Language: English
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A Paris All Your Own
- Best-Selling Women Writers on the City of Light
- By: Eleanor Brown - editor
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Editor Eleanor Brown presents a collection of personal essays from 18 different authors about their experiences in the City of Light.
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A Paris All Your Own
- Best-Selling Women Writers on the City of Light
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 04-07-17
- Language: English
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