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Annals
- By: Tacitus
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Beginning at the end of Augustus' reign, Tacitus's Annals examines the rules of the Roman emperors from Tiberius to Nero (though Caligula's books are lost to us). Their dramas and scandals are brought fully under the spotlight, as Tacitus presents a catalog of their murders, atrocities, sexual improprieties, and other vices in no unsparing terms. Debauched, cruel, and paranoid, they are portrayed as being on the verge of madness. Their wars and battles, such as the war with the Parthians, are also described with the same scrutinizing intensity.
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Excellent narration of an essential text.
- By Anonymous on 18-01-24
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Annals
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 26-10-20
- Language: English
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The Bed Trick
- Sex and Deception on Trial
- By: Izabella Scott
- Narrated by: Lizzie Schenk
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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She said she wore a blindfold at all times. She said she didn't know who she was really having sex with. Two former best friends face each other in court at a sex offence trial. Miss X, making the accusation, claims she was tricked into queer sex, many times, by a best friend pretending to be her boyfriend. But that friend, Gayle Newland, tells a different story. They were secret lesbians, she says, lovers in the closet. The boyfriend was imaginary, and part of a role play that had been going on for years.
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The Bed Trick
- Sex and Deception on Trial
- Narrated by: Lizzie Schenk
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 05-02-26
- Language: English
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Walking Shadow
- Love, Loss and Shakespeare
- By: Greg Doran
- Narrated by: Antony Byrne, Greg Doran
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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After the death from cancer of his husband, Antony Sher, Greg Doran stepped down from his role as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, and inspired by the surprising history of the company's own copy, he set out to see how many of these important volumes he could find. The journey took him to Japan, where Doran met the emperor, and to New Zealand and South Africa where the legacy of Shakespeare has become entwined with the story of colonialism.
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Walking Shadow
- Love, Loss and Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Antony Byrne, Greg Doran
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 23-04-26
- Language: English
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Black Betty
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance41
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Story41
Detective Easy Rawlins returns in a mystery set in 1961 Los Angeles as Easy accepts a job searching for a beautiful woman nicknamed Black Betty who works as a housekeeper in Beverly Hills.
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Facinating
- By Mike on 23-12-12
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Black Betty
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Series: Easy Rawlins, Book 4
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 15-10-09
- Language: English
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RAWdiobooks
- By: R.C. Bray
- Original Recording
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Overall11
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Performance11
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From the profligate mind of Award-winning narrator and 1986 Brookside Elementary 5th Grade Spelling Bee Champion comes RAWdiobooks, the podcast about the audiobook industry no one asked for. Join Bob as he takes the conversation beyond the audiobook realm in a hilariously irreverent attempt to uncover something, anything interesting or redeeming about his friends and colleagues. Guests include fellow narrators, authors, and other weirdos in the audiobook biz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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How interviews should be done!
- By Simon GL on 21-04-22
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Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited
- By: Folger Shakespeare Library
- Original Recording
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Home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare materials. Advancing knowledge and the arts. Discover it all at www.folger.edu. Shakespeare turns up in the most interesting places—not just literature and the stage, but science and social history as well. Our "Shakespeare Unlimited" podcast explores the fascinating and varied connections between Shakespeare, his works, and the world around us.
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Great to dip your toe in the water
- By Paul R. Norton on 07-09-22
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Firewall
- An Inspector Wallander Mystery
- By: Henning Mankell
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall305
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Performance221
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Story218
Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards, a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow.
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Immensely enjoyable
- By Steven on 24-03-13
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Firewall
- An Inspector Wallander Mystery
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Series: Kurt Wallander Series, Book 8
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 21-04-10
- Language: English
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James Joyce
- By: Edna O'Brien
- Narrated by: Stanley Townsend
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance16
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Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of Nora Barnacle, their hectic sexuality, children, wanderings, debt and profligacy and Joyce's obsession with the city of Dublin, which he would re-render through his words.
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brilliant book really enjoyed it Edna is excellent
- By Stephanie on 01-09-20
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James Joyce
- Narrated by: Stanley Townsend
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 18-06-20
- Language: English
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Public Confessions of a Middle Aged Woman
- By: Sue Townsend
- Narrated by: Carolyn Oldershaw
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance43
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For over 10 years, Sue Townsend has written a monthly column for Sainsbury’s Magazine, which covers everything from hosepipe bans and Spanish restaurants to writer’s block and the posh middle-aged woman she once met who'd never heard of Winnie the Pooh. Collected now for the first time, these columns from one of Britain’s most popular and acclaimed writers are funny, perceptive, and touching.
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bring back adrian mole
- By Lesley on 11-04-13
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Public Confessions of a Middle Aged Woman
- Narrated by: Carolyn Oldershaw
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-01-13
- Language: English
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Time to Be in Earnest
- A Fragment of Autobiography
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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P. D. James'sextraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist as well as diaries recording her in old age. In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth birthdays and looks back on her earlier life.
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Will appeal to those who enjoy the author's books
- By Kirstine on 23-01-20
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Time to Be in Earnest
- A Fragment of Autobiography
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 02-02-15
- Language: English
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The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell
- By: Nathan Waddell - editor
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 42 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell offers a wide-ranging reconsideration of Orwell's life and work, focusing on the extensive connections between his novels, essays, diaries, columns, letters, and reviews. Sections on Orwell's professional activities, his main literary influences, his politics, his intellectual fixations, his literary contemporaries, and his legacies structure the book, which moves thematically and topically through the full scope of his output.
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Depth of understanding is fabulous
- By Mr John Fewings on 21-09-25
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The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 42 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 24-06-25
- Language: English
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Growing Pains
- The Shaping of a Writer
- By: Daphne Du Maurier
- Narrated by: Hattie Morahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her subsequent marriage.
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Growing Pains
- The Shaping of a Writer
- Narrated by: Hattie Morahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 11-12-25
- Language: English
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Faceless Killers
- Read the first thrilling Kurt Wallander novel
- By: Henning Mankell
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall740
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Performance608
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Story605
One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a...
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Unexpectedly bad, right wing and chauvinistic.
- By Youssii on 08-01-18
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Faceless Killers
- Read the first thrilling Kurt Wallander novel
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Series: Kurt Wallander Series, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 11-03-11
- Language: English
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This Is Shakespeare
- How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright
- By: Emma Smith
- Narrated by: Emma Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall120
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Performance104
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Story102
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of This Is Shakespeare, written and read by Emma Smith. A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel...
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A great primer to understand the greatest writer
- By J. Drew on 26-03-21
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This Is Shakespeare
- How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright
- Narrated by: Emma Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 02-05-19
- Language: English
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The Grasmere Journals
- By: Dorothy Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Emma Fielding
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance62
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Story60
This is perhaps one of the best-loved of all journals. William Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy, began it in May 1800 and resolved to keep it for a short time. She continued it for nearly three years. In it, she brought the Dove Cottage years to vivid and intimate life. She noted the walks and weather, the friends, country neighbours, and travellers on the roads. She set down accounts of the garden, of Wordsworth's marriage, their concern for Coleridge, and the composition of Wordsworth's poetry.
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So gentle
- By Karen Thomas on 22-06-18
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The Grasmere Journals
- Narrated by: Emma Fielding
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 03-08-09
- Language: English
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Super-Infinite
- The Transformations of John Donne
- By: Katherine Rundell
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall190
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Performance162
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Story162
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral—and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a high-born girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of 10 children and was often ill and in pain.
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A super-excellent biography
- By Rachel Redford on 18-05-22
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Super-Infinite
- The Transformations of John Donne
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 20-04-22
- Language: English
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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
- By: William T. Sherman
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 34 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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First published in 1875, General William T. Sherman's memoir was one of the first from the Civil War and was offered to the public because, as Sherman wrote in his dedication, "no satisfactory history" of the war was yet available. Although Memoirs has been revised and corrected many times over the years, Sherman famously never changed the original text of his recollections.
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the level of detail
- By Mike78 on 06-12-25
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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 34 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 26-04-16
- Language: English
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Four Quartets
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall170
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Performance147
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Story143
A masterly new recording by Ralph Fiennes. Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in 20th-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author.
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Revelation
- By Dido41 on 06-10-19
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Four Quartets
- Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes
- Length: 52 mins
- Release date: 29-10-15
- Language: English
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Why Bother?
- By: Chris Morris, Peter Cook
- Narrated by: Chris Morris, Peter Cook
- Length: 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance46
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1994 saw one of Peter Cook's most acclaimed performances since his 1960s' heyday. Chris Morris' surreal and inventive questions brought out the very best of eccentric aristocrat Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling - a character whom Cook had carried with him through 'Beyond the Fringe' and 'Not Only...
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Two masters at the top of their game
- By Joseph William McQuade on 14-05-18
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Why Bother?
- Narrated by: Chris Morris, Peter Cook
- Length: 49 mins
- Release date: 28-04-06
- Language: English
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Summoned By Bells A Life In Verse
- By: John Betjeman
- Narrated by: John Betjeman
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance18
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Story17
'For myself/ I knew as soon as I could read and write/ That I must be a poet. Even today,/ When all the way from Cambridge comes a wind/ To blow the lamps out every time they're lit/ I know that I must light mine up again.' From his earliest boyhood memories of Highgate and Archibald, his old...
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A beautiful listen
- By Hilary on 18-01-16
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Summoned By Bells A Life In Verse
- Narrated by: John Betjeman
- Length: 2 hrs
- Release date: 09-10-08
- Language: English
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