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The Most Reluctant Convert
- C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith
- By: David C. Downing
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance31
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Story30
His books have sold millions and include classics like Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Yet C. S. Lewis was not always a literary giant of Christian faith. How did he evolve from staunch atheism to become one of the most beloved and renowned Christian authors of our time?
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Kind of interesting
- By Carôle on 14-03-15
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The Most Reluctant Convert
- C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 20-03-09
- Language: English
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Miss Dior
- A Story of Courage and Couture
- By: Justine Picardie
- Narrated by: Justine Picardie
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance33
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Story33
Miss Dior paints a portrait of the enigmatic woman behind the designer Christian Dior: his beloved younger sister, Catherine, who inspired his most famous perfume and shaped his vision of femininity. Justine Picardie's journey takes her to Occupied Paris, where Christian honed his couture skills while Catherine dedicated herself to the French Resistance, until she was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the German concentration camp of Ravensbrück.
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Misleading Cover and Title but okay
- By Felicity Maddison on 01-01-22
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Miss Dior
- A Story of Courage and Couture
- Narrated by: Justine Picardie
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-09-21
- 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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Lonesome Traveler
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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In his first autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac reveals exhilarating stories of the years he spent traveling, while writing his acclaimed novels. His journeys took him from California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London. He also writes about relationship, jobs, and the nature of life on the road. Here are echoes of landscapes that appear in some of his novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels.
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Lonesome Traveler
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 15-07-25
- Language: English
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The Illuminated Man
- Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard
- By: Christopher Priest, Nina Allan
- Narrated by: Hilary Maclean, Nina Allan, Roger May
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Bloomsbury presents The Illuminated Man by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan, read by Roger May and Hilary Maclean, with Nina Allan. This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel. J. G. Ballard possessed one of the most astonishing imaginations of our age...
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Get a Psychiatrist to Write about Ballard
- By Paul S. on 14-06-26
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The Illuminated Man
- Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard
- Narrated by: Hilary Maclean, Nina Allan, Roger May
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 23-04-26
- Language: English
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The Hare With Amber Eyes
- The Sunday Times bestselling biography, winner of the Costa Book of the Year award
- By: Edmund de Waal
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall388
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Performance251
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Story252
Brought to you by Penguin. **THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD** 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment...
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Just not for me
- By Mark on 04-04-11
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The Hare With Amber Eyes
- The Sunday Times bestselling biography, winner of the Costa Book of the Year award
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 24-03-11
- Language: English
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Animal House
- By: James Brown
- Narrated by: James Brown
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall189
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Performance163
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Story163
Between 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the the must-buy and must-be-in publication of the decade. It won every award going, year after year, and came to define not only its audience but also a generation. Bright, loud, funny, provocative, ambitious and careless, loaded was read from the barracks of Afghanistan to the England dressing room at Euro '96. It captured a hedonistic lifestyle of alcohol, cocaine and more. The last great hurrah before the end of the century.
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Engaging, funny and sometimes touching
- By P. Dearden on 09-06-26
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Animal House
- Narrated by: James Brown
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- 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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Story7
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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Gather Together in My Name
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Uzo Aduba
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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In this incredible second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves...
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Gather Together in My Name
- Narrated by: Uzo Aduba
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 05-08-25
- Language: English
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Always Home, Always Homesick
- An inspirational memoir of a life-changing year in brutally beautiful Iceland
- By: Hannah Kent
- Narrated by: Hannah Kent
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance16
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Story16
This audiobook is read by the author, Hannah Kent. 'Immediate, intimate and never less than captivating' - Guardian From the bestselling author of Burial Rites comes an inspirational memoir about her travels in Iceland, an extraordinary country that has forged a nation of storytellers. When she...
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Fantastic memoir
- By LJ Fox on 01-03-26
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Always Home, Always Homesick
- An inspirational memoir of a life-changing year in brutally beautiful Iceland
- Narrated by: Hannah Kent
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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Lands of Lost Borders
- A Journey on the Silk Road
- By: Kate Harris
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance13
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Story13
Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven’t felt for years. It’s a modern classic."" —Pico Iyer A brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road—an illuminating...
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The reader is awful
- By Anonymous on 30-09-22
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Lands of Lost Borders
- A Journey on the Silk Road
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 21-08-18
- Language: English
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Man of Iron
- Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain
- By: Julian Glover
- Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance21
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Story23
The enthralling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering and whose genius we still benefit from today. Thomas Telford's name is familiar, his story less so. Thomas was born in 1757 in the Scottish Borders; his father died in Thomas' infancy, plunging the family into poverty. Telford's life soared to span almost eight decades of gloriously obsessive, prodigiously productive energy. Few people have done more to shape our nation.
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Determination
- By Hannah on 23-11-24
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Man of Iron
- Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain
- Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 26-01-17
- Language: English
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Electric Spark
- The Enigma of Muriel Spark - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2025
- By: Frances Wilson
- Narrated by: Sara Vickers
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Story15
Bloomsbury presents Electric Spark by Frances Wilson, read by Sara Vickers. ‘Absolutely mesmerising’ Spectator ‘I raced through it’ Ali Smith, Guardian ‘Unputdownable’ Financial Times ‘A fire-starter’ New York Times ‘Hypnotic’ TLS ‘Joyously, brilliantly intelligent’ Anne...
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Audio omits things and is badly performed
- By EEL on 21-09-25
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Electric Spark
- The Enigma of Muriel Spark - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2025
- Narrated by: Sara Vickers
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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Levels of Life
- By: Julian Barnes
- Narrated by: Julian Barnes
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall246
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Performance220
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Story220
'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an unparalleled magus of the heart'. This book confirms that opinion.
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The tropics of grief
- By Paul S. Turner on 20-07-14
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Levels of Life
- Narrated by: Julian Barnes
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-04-13
- Language: English
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That Time of Year
- A Minnesota Life
- By: Garrison Keillor
- Narrated by: Garrison Keillor
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures.
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The Master Story Teller
- By Brian B. on 30-05-23
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That Time of Year
- A Minnesota Life
- Narrated by: Garrison Keillor
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- 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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Story40
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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David Hockney In His Own Words
- By: David Hockney
- Narrated by: David Hockney
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance3
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David Hockney has been described as Britain's 'greatest living artist'. In this fascinating collection of archive interviews we hear - in his own words - about his paintings, his schooldays and the attitudes he had while growing up. Hockney discusses the influence that his family had on him, as...
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À bit of a rip-off
- By Lee W. on 26-03-24
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David Hockney In His Own Words
- Narrated by: David Hockney
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 17-03-22
- 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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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
- By: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Ron McClarty
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers, and assorted Middle Americans.
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So dull.
- By Gol on 15-04-26
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
- Narrated by: Ron McClarty
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 18-12-25
- Language: English
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You Left Early
- A True Story of Love and Alcohol
- By: Louisa Young
- Narrated by: Louisa Young
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall216
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Performance195
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Story192
‘Extraordinarily powerful’ Emma Thompson There are a million love stories, and a million stories of addiction. This one is transcendent. Louisa Young met Robert Lockhart when they were both 17. Their stop-start romance lasted decades, in which time he became a celebrated composer and she, an...
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A masterpiece.
- By susie on 28-07-18
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You Left Early
- A True Story of Love and Alcohol
- Narrated by: Louisa Young
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 28-06-18
- Language: English
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