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In Extremis
- The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
- By: Lindsey Hilsum
- Narrated by: Lindsey Hilsum
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall431
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Performance368
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Story371
Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. With fierce compassion and honesty, she reported from the most dangerous places in the world, fractured by conflict and genocide, going in further and staying longer than anyone else. In Sri Lanka in 2001, Marie was hit by a grenade and lost the sight in her left eye - resulting in her trademark eye patch - and in 2012 she was killed in Syria. Like her hero, the legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn, she sought to bear witness to the horrifying truths of war..
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An incredible book for an incredible woman.
- By Marguerite Leech on 15-01-19
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In Extremis
- The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
- Narrated by: Lindsey Hilsum
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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Behind the Seams
- My Life in Rhinestones
- By: Dolly Parton
- Narrated by: Dolly Parton, Holly George-Warren, Rebecca Seaver
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance22
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Story22
Brought to you by Penguin. This audiobook has received a Grammy nomination for 'Best Audiobook, Narration, and Storytelling Recording' A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories, interviews with friends and family, music, and archival...
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Beautiful
- By lee on 22-10-23
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Behind the Seams
- My Life in Rhinestones
- Narrated by: Dolly Parton, Holly George-Warren, Rebecca Seaver
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 19-10-23
- Language: English
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Ghost Stories
- A Memoir - 'What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love' David Mitchell
- By: Siri Hustvedt
- Narrated by: Siri Hustvedt
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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'A remarkable achievement' LOUISE KENNEDY 'A deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with love' SARAH WATERS 'What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love' DAVID MITCHELL 'Essential reading from an all-time great' SARA COLLINS Ghost Stories is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a...
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A wonderful reflection on a long, love-filled marriage
- By Anonymous on 31-05-26
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Ghost Stories
- A Memoir - 'What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love' David Mitchell
- Narrated by: Siri Hustvedt
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 05-05-26
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of the Earth
- How the Soviet Union Collapsed but Remained - A Times Book of the Year
- By: Mikhail Zygar
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 22 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR On April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union begins its countdown. From the steppes of Kazakhstan, the first human - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin - launches into space. In that moment, another countdown begins. How could it be that a single generation - just three...
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Clarity, accessibility and dark humour
- By reg_sinclair on 17-01-26
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The Dark Side of the Earth
- How the Soviet Union Collapsed but Remained - A Times Book of the Year
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 22 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-11-25
- Language: English
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Georgia O'Keeffe
- A Life
- By: Roxana Robinson
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 29 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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When Roxana Robinson’s definitive biography of O’Keeffe was first published in 1989, it received rave reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This new edition features a new foreword by the author, setting O’Keefe in an artistic context over the last thirty years since the book was first published, as well as previously unpublished letters of the young O’Keeffe to her lover, Arthur MacMahon. This book also relates the story of Robinson’s own encounter with the artist.
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Awfully written and far too long winded. Avoid unless you have trouble sleeping.
- By Alison Druce on 03-01-25
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Georgia O'Keeffe
- A Life
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 29 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 20-12-22
- Language: English
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Chanel's Riviera
- Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte d'Azur, 1930–1944
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance68
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Story67
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far...
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More Riviera than Chanel
- By WhatCathyReadNext on 11-11-19
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Chanel's Riviera
- Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte d'Azur, 1930–1944
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-06-19
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Artists
- By: Giorgio Vasari
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Abridged
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Overall31
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Performance25
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Story25
An Italian Mannerist architect and painter, Giorgio Vasari was acquainted with many of the most famous artists of his day. He is best-known today for his biographies of artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian and Giotto. This recording is read with clarity and authority by Neville Jason.
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Tech issues
- By K dot H on 21-05-18
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The Lives of the Artists
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 28-07-09
- Language: English
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
- By: David Foster Wallace
- Narrated by: Paul Garcia
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally...
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
- Narrated by: Paul Garcia
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 27-03-25
- Language: English
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Homage to Catalonia
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance75
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Story75
Brought to you by Penguin. 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War...
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A telling work of history
- By Banjoman on 07-09-21
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Homage to Catalonia
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- 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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Overall77
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Performance63
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Story61
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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Anthony Powell
- Dancing to the Music of Time
- By: Hilary Spurling
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance16
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The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers. Anthony Powell: the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an undisputed classic of English literature. Spanning 12 spectacular volumes and written over 25 years, his comic masterpiece teems with idiosyncratic characters, capturing 20th-century Britain through war and peace. Drawing on Powell's letters and journals, and the memories of those who knew him, Hilary Spurling explores his life.
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Let down by an uncomprending narrator
- By E. Owen on 03-09-22
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Anthony Powell
- Dancing to the Music of Time
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 25-10-18
- Language: English
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Life with Picasso
- By: Francoise Gilot, Carlton Lake, Lisa Alther - introduction
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall59
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Performance55
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Story55
Life with Picasso, written with Carlton Lake, is about Picasso the artist and Picasso the man. We hear him talking about painting and sculpture, his life, his career, as well as other artists, both contemporaries and old masters. We glimpse Picasso in his many and volatile moods, dismissing his work, exultant over his work, entertaining his various superstitions, being an anxious father. But Life with Picasso is not only a portrait of a great artist; it is also a picture of a talented young woman of exacting intelligence at the outset of her own notable career.
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Great story, awful narration.
- By chloe sevigny on 18-02-20
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Life with Picasso
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 21-01-20
- Language: English
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BARE
- 'You have to read this book' MICK JAGGER
- By: Lorna Tucker
- Narrated by: Lorna Tucker
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance34
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Story34
I, Lorna Tucker, have lived a life that most of you can't even begin to imagine... The unflinching true story of one woman's fight to survive living on the streets of London - from Britain's most exciting filmmaker 'You need to read this' MICK JAGGER 'Truly changes your perception of what the...
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Lorna’s honesty and courage
- By Amazon Customer on 04-01-26
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BARE
- 'You have to read this book' MICK JAGGER
- Narrated by: Lorna Tucker
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 20-03-25
- Language: English
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Look Again
- The Autobiography
- By: David Bailey
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde, Joshua Akehurst, Simon Darwen, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance38
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Eye-opening and candid, David Bailey's Look Again is a fantastically entertaining memoir by a true icon. 'Rollicking . . . with roguish tales as vivid as his era-defining photos' – Daily Mail 'Brilliant' – Telegraph David Bailey burst onto the scene in 1960 with his revolutionary photographs...
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Great Read
- By Ron G. on 12-05-24
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Look Again
- The Autobiography
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde, Joshua Akehurst, Simon Darwen, Willow Nash
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 14-10-21
- Language: English
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Mark Twain: The Travel Writing Collection
- The Innocents Abroad; Roughing It; Old Times on the Mississippi; Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion; A Tramp Abroad; Life on the Mississippi; Following the Equator
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood, Ian Porter, Kenneth Jay
- Length: 89 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of Mark Twain's 5 most inventive and humorous travel monologues.
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Mark Twain: The Travel Writing Collection
- The Innocents Abroad; Roughing It; Old Times on the Mississippi; Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion; A Tramp Abroad; Life on the Mississippi; Following the Equator
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood, Ian Porter, Kenneth Jay
- Length: 89 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 29-07-24
- Language: English
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall123
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Performance112
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Story111
In 1972, when Alexandra Fuller was two years old, her parents finally abandoned their English life and returned to what was then Southern Rhodesia and to the beginning of a civil war. By the time she was eight, the war was in full swing. Her parents veered from being determined farmers to being blind drunk, whilst Alexandra and her sister, the only survivors of five children, alternately take up target practice and sing Rod Stewart songs from sun bleached rocks.
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Post-colonial memories of a British girl
- By Amazon Kunde on 14-02-18
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 25-12-03
- Language: English
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Testament of Youth
- By: Vera Brittain
- Narrated by: Sheila Mitchell
- Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall110
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Performance97
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Story99
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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The Orwell Tour
- Travels Through the Life and Work of George Orwell
- By: Oliver Lewis
- Narrated by: Oliver Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Following in the footsteps of his literary hero, researcher and historian Oliver Lewis set out to visit all the places to have inspired and been lived in by George Orwell. Over three years he traveled from Wigan to Catalonia, Paris to Motihari, Marrakesh to Eton, and in each location explored both how Orwell experienced the place, and how the place now remembers him as a literary icon.
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Good on the Whole
- By Julieb on 21-12-25
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The Orwell Tour
- Travels Through the Life and Work of George Orwell
- Narrated by: Oliver Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 07-09-23
- Language: English
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The Secret Painter
- By: Joe Tucker
- Narrated by: Joe Tucker
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance21
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Joe Tucker's Uncle Eric was a beloved yet unconventional figure throughout Joe's life. A shambolically dressed man who lived with his mother for almost eighty years, he had an almost compulsive need to charm strangers with working men's club comedy routines, and appeared to exist only for daily trips to the bookie - and yet had also amassed over five hundred of his own remarkable paintings without anyone ever realising his achievements.
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An artist to be proud of.
- By Jill Catherine Reed on 25-03-25
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The Secret Painter
- Narrated by: Joe Tucker
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 30-01-25
- Language: English
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Lessico famigliare
- By: Natalia Ginzburg
- Narrated by: Margherita Buy
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall59
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Performance51
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Story51
In Lessico famigliare, il riaffiorare alla memoria di parole, espressioni, frasi e modi di dire sentiti tante volte in casa da Natalia Ginzburg, scandisce, con ironia e tenerezza, la storia della sua famiglia - i Levi - ebrei e antifascisti, nell'Italia tra gli anni Venti e gli anni Cinquanta del Novecento.
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a great waste of opportunity for the writer and great waste of time for the reader
- By Rocciabruna on 09-10-21
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Lessico famigliare
- Narrated by: Margherita Buy
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 12-11-13
- Language: Italian
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