Showing results by publisher "Orion Publishing Group" in Biographies & Memoirs
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The Second Half
- By: Roy Keane, Roddy Doyle
- Narrated by: Roy Keane, Stephen Hogan
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Narrated by Stephen Hogan and introduced by Roy Keane. In an 18-year playing career for Cobh Ramblers, Nottingham Forest, and Manchester United (under Sir Alex Ferguson) and Celtic, Roy Keane dominated every midfield he led to glory. Aggressive and highly competitive, his attitude helped him to excel as captain of Manchester United from 1997 until his departure in 2005.
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Narrator was hard to listen to
- By Ronan on 13-10-14
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The Second Half
- Narrated by: Roy Keane, Stephen Hogan
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 09-10-14
- Language: English
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Maggie Smith
- By: Michael Coveney
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
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No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's best-loved actors. This new biography shines the stage lights on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen career spans six decades. From her days as a West End star of comedy and revue, Dame Maggie's path would cross with those of the greatest actors, playwrights and directors of the era.
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Dull
- By Elinor Dashwood on 14-09-15
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Maggie Smith
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 03-09-15
- Language: English
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L.A. Noir
- The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
- By: John Buntin
- Narrated by: Kirby Heybourne
- Length: 17 hrs
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The epic struggle for control of Los Angeles and the history of the 30s, 40s, and 50s in America's dream city. Now the Fox UK TV series Mob City. Mid-century Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as 'the white spot of America', a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of 'pleasure girls' and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make.
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A fascinating narrative history.
- By Ian David Burrell on 08-08-22
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L.A. Noir
- The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
- Narrated by: Kirby Heybourne
- Length: 17 hrs
- Release date: 17-02-14
- Language: English
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Curious
- True Stories and Loose Connections
- By: Rebecca Front
- Narrated by: Rebecca Front
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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Sometimes things are more ordinary than you think. And sometimes they're a whole lot odder than you can possibly imagine.
Rebecca Front has always drawn on experiences from her life in her award-winning acting and comic writing. In her debut book, she reveals herself as a master storyteller: sharp, witty, honest, and highly attuned to the absurdities of life and the oddities of human nature. By turns poignant, comic, and uplifting, Curious is a book of stories, all of them true, though sometimes perhaps a little bent out of shape in the telling.
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Rebecca Front...who knew?
- By Steve on 07-07-14
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Curious
- True Stories and Loose Connections
- Narrated by: Rebecca Front
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 12-06-14
- Language: English
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 28 hrs and 46 mins
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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition.
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Fantastic content and narration
- By H L Condliffe on 03-06-16
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 28 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 03-03-16
- Language: English
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Call the Midwife
- A True Story of the East End in the 1950s
- By: Jennifer Worth
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cole
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and tragedy, she also met with amazing kindness and understanding, tempered by a great deal of Cockney humour.
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Abridged to the point of absurdity
- By Ms K. E. Evans on 25-09-18
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Call the Midwife
- A True Story of the East End in the 1950s
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cole
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 26-11-15
- Language: English
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Letters to the Midwife
- By: Jennifer Worth
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson, Clive Mantle
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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When the Call the Midwife series became best sellers Jennifer Worth received mountains of letters - not only praising her books, but also from people who remembered the world her books described; life in the East End of London during the late 1940s and early '50s. Often her books touched her audience and they felt moved to write, or they wanted to share their own memories.A prolific letter writer herself, Jennifer always corresponded and this book includes some fascinating letters she received.
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More than I expected
- By R. Card on 22-11-15
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Letters to the Midwife
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson, Clive Mantle
- Series: Call the Midwife
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 13-02-14
- Language: English
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Pigs in Clover
- Or How I Accidentally Fell in Love with the Good Life
- By: Simon Dawson
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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This is the true story of a Londoner who gives up his job as an estate agent in the city, moves to the wilds of Exmoor, starts a smallholding and becomes self-sufficient, with a few bumps along the way. Simon's journey from urbanite to self-sufficient smallholder is brimming with incidents - some funny and some tragic - leading him to question Mother Nature, himself, the food he eats and his role in it all.
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Dull, difficult to listen to .....enough after 2 chapters
- By Dean on 17-11-17
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Pigs in Clover
- Or How I Accidentally Fell in Love with the Good Life
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 07-01-16
- Language: English
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Call the Midlife
- By: Chris Evans
- Narrated by: Vassos Alexander
- Length: 11 hrs
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During his run into turning 50, Chris Evans is on a mission. To take stock of where he is and where he's at in order to figure out how best to get the most out of what he believes are the best years yet to come. His typically positive and upbeat journey involves 100 days of contemplation, research, focus, frustration and decision making while secretly: training for the London Marathon and bringing back his cult '90s TV show, TFI Friday.
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Not as Good as the last book
- By Mrs on 05-12-15
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Call the Midlife
- Narrated by: Vassos Alexander
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 26-11-15
- Language: English
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Handling Edna
- The Unauthorised Biography
- By: Barry Humphries
- Narrated by: Barry Humphries
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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In this unauthorised biography of Dame Edna Everage, acquired for an unprecedented advance and in spectacular secrecy, her long-time manager and the man who was there from the very beginning, Barry Humphries, takes a behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred look at an icon of our times.
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Witty and amusing book
- By Pete on 08-04-13
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Handling Edna
- The Unauthorised Biography
- Narrated by: Barry Humphries
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 22-10-10
- Language: English
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Winner
- My Racing Life
- By: A. P. McCoy
- Narrated by: Stephen Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Tony (A. P.) McCoy has collected a record 20 consecutive jump jockey titles to date, and since 1992 he has ridden over 4,300 winners. This powerfully honest memoir looks at life at the very top in National Hunt racing - and beyond, discussing fatherhood, writing novels and his decision to retire while he's still a long way ahead. It is a definitive autobiography that is themed around A. P.'s 10 most important races: his first ride, first race, first fall, first win, greatest disappointment - and greatest triumph.
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Brilliant
- By Jason o Shea on 26-09-18
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Winner
- My Racing Life
- Narrated by: Stephen Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 05-11-15
- Language: English
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Farewell to the East End
- By: Jennifer Worth
- Narrated by: Anne Reid
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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The hit BBC TV series Call the Midwife is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, chronicling her life as a midwife in London in the 1950s. Farewell to the East End is the third book in the trilogy. Following on from the best-selling Call the Midwife and Shadows of the Workhouse, Jennifer brings her story to a conclusion. Postwar life could be a struggle - the devastating effects of TB, dangerous backstreet abortions, people driven to extremes by poverty....
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Thoroughly annoyed
- By Matt & Felicity on 02-10-18
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Farewell to the East End
- Narrated by: Anne Reid
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 26-11-15
- Language: English
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Crime Beat
- Stories of Cops and Killers
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Howard Samuel
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Death is my beat. Those words, spoken by the narrator and hero of The Poet, Jack McEvoy, could also apply to Michael Connelly. Time and time again in these riveting pieces, we make the connection between Connelly the crime reporter and Connelly the novelist: On the day I arrived in Los Angeles I sat in the newspaper editor's office being interviewed for a job on the crime beat.
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Not a story - A documentary
- By John L. on 15-02-19
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Crime Beat
- Stories of Cops and Killers
- Narrated by: Howard Samuel
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 11-12-14
- Language: English
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Testament of Youth
- By: Vera Brittain
- Narrated by: Sheila Mitchell
- Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
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This classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lives of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil prewar era.
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Almost impossible to listen to
- By Julia on 12-03-16
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Testament of Youth
- Narrated by: Sheila Mitchell
- Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-01-16
- Language: English
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East West Street
- By: Philippe Sands
- Narrated by: Philippe Sands, David Rintoul
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
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When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg Trials.
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I never write reviews....
- By Christopher on 20-07-17
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East West Street
- Narrated by: Philippe Sands, David Rintoul
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 26-05-16
- Language: English
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Impossible Things Before Breakfast
- Adventures in the Ordinary
- By: Rebecca Front
- Narrated by: Rebecca Front
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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People are odd. Even the most predictable of us sometimes defy expectations. Add to that the tricks that life plays on us and the world suddenly seems full of impossible things. As an award-winning actor and writer, Rebecca Front has always been fascinated by life's little quirks. Impossible Things Before Breakfast is a collection of true stories about surprising turns of events, bizarre misunderstandings and improbable life lessons.
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AMAZING REBECCA FRONT IS THE BEST
- By Hannah on 06-09-18
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Impossible Things Before Breakfast
- Adventures in the Ordinary
- Narrated by: Rebecca Front
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-06-18
- Language: English
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The Goshawk
- With a foreword by Helen Macdonald
- By: T. H. White
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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This modern classic of nature writing by the author of The Once and Future King was an inspiration for and featured in Helen Macdonald's prize-winning H Is for Hawk. "No hawk can be a pet. There is no sentimentality. In a way, it is the psychiatrist's art. One is matching one's mind against another mind with deadly reason and interest. One desires no transference of affection, demands no ignoble homage or gratitude. It is a tonic for the less forthright savagery of the human heart."
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A Simply stunning listen
- By Manda N on 10-01-19
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The Goshawk
- With a foreword by Helen Macdonald
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 28-09-15
- Language: English
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Shadows of the Workhouse
- The Drama of Life in Postwar London
- By: Jennifer Worth
- Narrated by: Anne Reid
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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The inspiration for the second series of the BBC's phenomenally popular Call the Midwife, starring Miranda Hart. In this follow-up to Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s, tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House - she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat.
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Excellent
- By Kathcolours33 on 31-12-15
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Shadows of the Workhouse
- The Drama of Life in Postwar London
- Narrated by: Anne Reid
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 26-11-15
- Language: English
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KSI: I Am a Bellend
- By: KSI
- Narrated by: KSI
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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Admitting you're a bell-end is the first step to salvation.... KSI is one of the biggest and baddest YouTube stars on the planet. With over a billion views and millions of subscribers to his name, he is the undisputed king of social media. But despite this success he is a self-confessed bell-end. Excessively posting selfies, oversharing about his dead nan, spending all day scouring Tinder and suffering from red-hot Fifa rage are just some of his undesirable online habits.
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worst book I've ever read/heard.
- By Leo on 11-10-15
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KSI: I Am a Bellend
- Narrated by: KSI
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 24-09-15
- Language: English
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A Very Private Diary
- A Nurse in Wartime
- By: Mary Morris
- Narrated by: Lara Hutchinson
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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'The real war started for me today.' So begins the diary of 18-year-old Mary Mulry, a young Irish nurse, newly arrived in London in 1940. Over the next seven years she witnesses many of the pivotal events of the war at first hand. In London during the Blitz she sees a young woman die after a botched abortion, narrowly escapes from the bombing of the Alexandra Hotel, and nurses critically ill children during bombing raids in Woolwich. In Normandy in 1944, arriving on the heels of the D-Day invasion, she nurses Allied soldiers and German prisoners of war.
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Living history
- By Love to read on 24-02-15
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A Very Private Diary
- A Nurse in Wartime
- Narrated by: Lara Hutchinson
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-07-14
- Language: English
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