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The Madness
- A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD
- By: Fergal Keane
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance49
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BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK An Irish Times book of the year 2022 A powerful, probing book about PTSD. As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty years, from Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and many more. Driven...
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A must listen
- By Nick Johnson on 13-01-23
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The Madness
- A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-11-22
- Language: English
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The Ministry of Truth
- A Biography of George Orwell's 1984
- By: Dorian Lynskey
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall149
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Performance135
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Story135
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing The Ministry of Truth charts the life of George Orwell's 1984, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century and a work that is ever more relevant in this tumultuous era of...
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Generally a good insight into the world of Orwell
- By Rob on 08-09-20
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The Ministry of Truth
- A Biography of George Orwell's 1984
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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Ian Fleming
- The Man Behind James Bond
- By: Andrew Lycett
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 21 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance33
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Story34
Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, spy, this suave Old Etonian creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complicated and interesting than his major fictional character, Agent 007.
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Reasonable Biography Spoiled by the Production
- By Amazon Customer on 18-10-07
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Ian Fleming
- The Man Behind James Bond
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 21 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 14-04-00
- Language: English
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Johnny Marr
- Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
- By: Johnny Marr, David Darlington
- Narrated by: Johnny Marr, David Darlington
- Length: 24 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall45
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Performance37
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Story37
Legendary musician Johnny Marr joins David Darlington in the Audible Studios to discuss his autobiography, Set the Boy Free.
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Short chat with Johnny Marr
- By papapownall on 18-10-19
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Johnny Marr
- Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
- Narrated by: Johnny Marr, David Darlington
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 14-12-16
- Language: English
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All of These People
- A Memoir
- By: Fergal Keane, Kati Nicholl
- Narrated by: Fergal Keane
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
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Overall59
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Performance37
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Story37
In a memoir of staggering power and candour, award-winning journalist Fergal Keane addresses his experience of wars of different kinds, some very public and others acutely personal. During his years of reporting from the world's most savage and turbulent regions, Fergal Keane has witnessed the...
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Fergal Keane
- By andy on 20-02-10
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All of These People
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Fergal Keane
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 22-02-06
- Language: English
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between
- By: Hisham Matar
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall133
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Performance116
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Story117
Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken...
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Search for justice and closure - a Libyan story
- By Anthony Zwi on 18-12-16
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 30-06-16
- Language: English
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Take Six Girls
- The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
- By: Laura Thompson
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Bloomsbury presents Take Six Girls by Laura Thompson, read by Jilly Bond. 'Wonderfully readable... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a...
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Take Six Girls
- The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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Speak, Silence
- In Search of W. G. Sebald
- By: Carole Angier
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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Story10
Bloomsbury presents Speak, Silence by Carole Angier, read by Kristin Atherton. A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands ‘Spectacular’ Observer ‘A remarkable portrait’ Guardian W. G. Sebald was one of the most...
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Strange book, poorly read.
- By Everyone'sacritic7 on 13-01-22
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Speak, Silence
- In Search of W. G. Sebald
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 19-08-21
- Language: English
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Intimations
- Six Essays
- By: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall186
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Performance141
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Story140
Brought to you by Penguin. Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There...
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Brilliant essays
- By Betty on 14-03-21
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Intimations
- Six Essays
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 28-07-20
- Language: English
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Heavy Light
- A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing
- By: Horatio Clare
- Narrated by: Horatio Clare
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance83
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Story81
After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under section two of the Mental Health Act. From hypomania in the Alps, to a complete breakdown and a locked ward in Wakefield, this is a gripping account of how the mind loses touch with reality, how we fall apart and how we can be healed - or not - by treatment. A story of the wonder and intensity of the manic experience, as well as its peril and strangeness, it is shot through with the love, kindness, humour and care of those who deal with someone who becomes dangerously ill.
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Honesty and humour of the author
- By reverend mother on 25-05-26
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Heavy Light
- A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing
- Narrated by: Horatio Clare
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 18-03-21
- Language: English
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A Moment of War
- By: Laurie Lee
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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Story27
Brought to you by Penguin. A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept...
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historic masterpiece
- By Ralph Welsman on 25-12-23
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A Moment of War
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Series: Cider with Rosie, Book 3
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 24-03-22
- Language: English
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Before I Go
- By: Catherine Cookson
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance28
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Story28
Known for the wit of her writing, Catherine Cookson was the UK's most widely read novelist during her lifetime. When her Estate discovered this never-before-published memoir in the attic of her home, it was an astonishing find. Before I Go is the definitive story of her life, in the author's own candid words.
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A must for Catherine Cookson Fans!<br />
- By Jenny on 20-07-17
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Before I Go
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-07-17
- Language: English
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John le Carré
- The Biography
- By: Adam Sisman
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 28 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
Bloomsbury presents John le Carré by Adam Sisman, read by Richard Trinder. The definitive biography of the undisputed giant of English literature, a man whose own true history has long been hidden behind the fictional world of his books 'Compendious and compelling ... it is impossible to...
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Thorough
- By Amazon Customer on 31-12-23
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John le Carré
- The Biography
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 28 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 20-10-22
- Language: English
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Gertrude Stein
- An Afterlife
- By: Francesca Wade
- Narrated by: Francesca Wade
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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'Think of the Bible and Homer, think of Shakespeare and think of me,' wrote Gertrude Stein in 1936. Admirers called her a genius, sceptics a charlatan: she remains one of the most confounding—and contested—writers of the twentieth century. In this literary detective story, Francesca Wade delves into the creation of the Stein myth.
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Fascinating and meticulously researched
- By Amazon Customer on 09-08-25
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Gertrude Stein
- An Afterlife
- Narrated by: Francesca Wade
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 20-05-25
- Language: English
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What Am I Doing Here?
- By: Bruce Chatwin
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance6
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Brought to you by Penguin. In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot'.
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Bruce Chatwin/Hugh Fraser
- By Anonymous on 23-05-23
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What Am I Doing Here?
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 24-10-19
- Language: English
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Mother's Boy
- A Writer's Beginnings
- By: Howard Jacobson
- Narrated by: Howard Jacobson
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance41
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In Mother's Boy, Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson reveals how he became a writer. It is an exploration of belonging and not-belonging, of being an insider and outsider, both English and Jewish. Full of Jacobson's trademark humour and infused with bittersweet memories of his parents, this is the story of a writer's beginnings - as well as the twists and turns that life takes - and of learning to understand who you are before you can become the writer you were meant to be.
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The agony without the ecstasy
- By Rachel Redford on 23-03-22
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Mother's Boy
- A Writer's Beginnings
- Narrated by: Howard Jacobson
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 03-03-22
- Language: English
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Thomas Hardy
- The Time-torn Man
- By: Claire Tomalin
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Jill Balcon
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Abridged
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Overall66
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Performance60
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Story60
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin, read by Jill Balcon and David Shaw-Parker. Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest...
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Plese let me introduce you to Claire Tomalin
- By Christine lee on 20-09-18
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Thomas Hardy
- The Time-torn Man
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Jill Balcon
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 24-05-18
- Language: English
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The Brontës: Romantic Passion and Social Justice
- By: Deborah Morse, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Deborah Morse
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall30
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Performance29
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Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë created some of the greatest works of 19th-century English literature. How did these three young women, born into a humble parsonage on the isolated moors of Northern England, write such striking work? What influenced them? How did they get their stories out into the world? Why do their novels continue to grip readers to this day? These and other questions are what you will explore in The Brontës: Romantic Passion and Social Justice.
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Adds depth to well loved literature
- By Sarielle on 31-08-22
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The Brontës: Romantic Passion and Social Justice
- Narrated by: Deborah Morse
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 17-08-21
- Language: English
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Naked Portrait
- A Memoir of my Father Lucian Freud
- By: Rose Boyt
- Narrated by: Rose Boyt
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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Read by the author, Rose Boyt. ‘Hypnotic and propulsive’ - The Sunday Times ‘Thrilling’ - The TLS ‘Compulsive’ - The Observer In Naked Portrait Rose Boyt explores her complicated relationship with her beloved father, Lucian Freud, drawing on a diary she kept while sitting for him and...
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The chosen one
- By Rachel Redford on 27-07-24
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Naked Portrait
- A Memoir of my Father Lucian Freud
- Narrated by: Rose Boyt
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 30-05-24
- Language: English
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These Foolish Things
- A Memoir
- By: Dylan Jones
- Narrated by: David Thorpe, Dylan Jones
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Few people can say they have shaped the cultural landscape of the last four decades while crossing paths with some of the most extraordinary personalities on the planet. But then, of course, Dylan Jones isn't just anyone. These Foolish Things captivatingly charts Dylan's life: from his...
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London music and fashion
- By david smith on 17-06-25
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These Foolish Things
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: David Thorpe, Dylan Jones
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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