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This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
- By: Richard Holmes
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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From the great biographer of the Romantics, This Long Pursuit is a sweeping exploration of a career devoted to the art of life-writing. Thirty years ago Richard Holmes published Footsteps - a revolutionary novel that would become a best seller and influence profoundly a whole generation of younger writers. The Long Pursuit is a companion audiobook in that it ranges widely over the arts, science, poetry and inspiration to reflect upon the practice and importance of biographical writing.
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A biographer's treasure trove
- By Rachel Redford on 02-01-17
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This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 06-10-16
- Language: English
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South and West: From a Notebook
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles. Here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. She interviews prominent local figures, describes motels, diners, a deserted reptile farm, a visit with Walker Percy, a ladies' brunch at the Mississippi Broadcasters' Convention.
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South and West: From a Notebook
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 21-09-17
- Language: English
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Dad You Suck
- By: Tim Dowling
- Narrated by: Tim Dowling
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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Written with self-excoriating candour and the driest humour, a book about being a dad from one of our best loved journalists. "For me the hardest task of fatherhood was always the oppressive obligation to lead by example. My sons have been present on countless occasions when I have, as we say in my homeland, completely lost my shit. During these stressful moments I have often wished to turn to them as a judge might to a jury and say, 'Please strike the next few minutes from the record', but many of those instances are chronicled here."
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The reality of parenting in the 21st century
- By ed lenox on 29-06-18
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Dad You Suck
- Narrated by: Tim Dowling
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 18-05-17
- Language: English
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The Genius of Jane Austen
- Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood
- By: Paula Byrne
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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A radical look at Jane Austen as you've never seen her - as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain's favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies time after time.
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The Genius of Jane Austen
- Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 18-05-17
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
- By: Simon Callow
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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A short life of Dickens which celebrates the impact of the theatre on his life and work. Two hundred years after his death, Dickens’s work is more popular than ever, in a variety of media, most of them undreamed of during his lifetime. Over the last few decades of intensive research, Dickens the man has become much better known to us and the sheer originality of his personality blazes forth as never before.
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Brilliant story and performance
- By A ALLEN on 26-12-22
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Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 06-02-12
- Language: English
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Attack of the Fifty Foot Women
- How Gender Equality Can Save the World!
- By: Catherine Mayer
- Narrated by: Tanya Moodie
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
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Not a single country anywhere in the world has achieved gender equality. In more than a few countries, progress for women has stalled or is reversing. Voters in the United States chose a misogynist over a female candidate for president. Yet in many of these countries, the majority of politicians and business leaders profess to believe in gender equality - as well they might. One report predicts a boost to global GDP of £8.3 trillion by 2025 simply by making faster progress towards narrowing the gender gap.
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I cannot recommend this book enough
- By Ellie on 14-03-17
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Attack of the Fifty Foot Women
- How Gender Equality Can Save the World!
- Narrated by: Tanya Moodie
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-03-17
- Language: English
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Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago
- By: Anna Pasternak
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya - the tragic true story that inspired Doctor Zhivago. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak, the writer's lover, typist and literary muse Olga was sent twice to Siberian labour camps because of her association with him, miscarrying their child on her first visit. When released, she always assumed that Boris would leave his wife for her, but he failed to do so.
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A superbly well narrated, informative and enlightening window into personal cost of love in the twentieth century USSR
- By Deborah D on 22-11-16
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Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 25-08-16
- Language: English
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The New Fashion Rules
- Inthefrow
- By: Victoria Magrath
- Narrated by: Victoria Magrath
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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The new digital era is all about being seen, liked and inspired. So how do we define ourselves through style? And why has the evolution of the Internet changed the way buy and wear clothing? Superblogger Victoria Magrath reveals the pivotal moments that have transformed the fashion world, from the '90s through to the Noughties, and shares insider secrets and practical tips for navigating the ever-changing fashion landscape.
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do not buy!!!!!
- By Edvardas on 09-01-19
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The New Fashion Rules
- Inthefrow
- Narrated by: Victoria Magrath
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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Everyday Madness
- On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love
- By: Lisa Appignanesi
- Narrated by: Lisa Appignanesi
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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After the death of her partner of 32 years, Lisa Appignanesi was thrust into a state striated by rage and superstition in which sanity felt elusive. The dead of prior generations loomed large and haunting. Then, too, the cultural and political moment seemed to collude with her condition: everywhere people were dislocated and angry. In this electrifying and brave examination of an ordinary enough death and its aftermath, Appignanesi uses all her evocative and analytic powers to scrutinize her own and our society’s experience of grieving, the effects of loss and the potent, mythical space it occupies in our lives.
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Worth every minute
- By Nick Rodrigues on 30-12-20
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Everyday Madness
- On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love
- Narrated by: Lisa Appignanesi
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 20-09-18
- Language: English
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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: The Boom in British Thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed
- By: Mike Ripley, Lee Child - foreword
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped save the world. With a foreword by Lee Child.
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Very good
- By Stephen Forsythe on 15-03-23
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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: The Boom in British Thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-05-17
- Language: English
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Michael Morpurgo: War Child to War Horse
- By: Maggie Fergusson
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Michael Morpurgo is a national treasure. With books such as Private Peaceful, Kensuke’s Kingdom, and The Wreck of the Zanzibar, he has enchanted a whole generation of children. His is a rare gift. In a unique collaboration, Maggie Fergusson explores Michael Morpurgo’s life through seven biographical chapters, to which he responds with seven autobiographical stories of his own. The portrait that emerges is one of light and shade: the light very bright, the shade complex and often painful.
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Good listen, clever mix of ideas
- By Stephanie Jane (Literary Flits) on 25-12-12
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Michael Morpurgo: War Child to War Horse
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-06-12
- Language: English
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The Genius in My Basement
- By: Alexander Masters
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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As Aristotle understood it, ‘there is no great genius without a mixture of madness’ and he may well have had a point: Einstein routinely forgot his way home when out walking the streets of Vienna, Nietzsche wound up in an insane asylum and Bobby Fischer, the chess prodigy, now scrambles around the world, seeking residency in any country reckless enough to let him through immigration.Simon Philips Norton, the subject of The Genius in my Basement, is not mad – not by a long shot – but he is certainly mixed up.
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Marmite
- By Mark H on 16-09-12
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The Genius in My Basement
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 26-10-11
- Language: English
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Where Shall We Run To?
- A Memoir
- By: Alan Garner
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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In Where Shall We Run To?, Alan Garner remembers his early childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge: life at the village school as ‘a sissy and a mardy-arse'; pushing his friend Harold into a clump of nettles to test the truth of dock leaves; his father joining the army to guard the family against Hitler; the coming of the Yanks, with their comics and sweets and chewing gum. From one of our greatest living writers, it is a remarkable and evocative memoir of a vanished England.
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Stunning and beutiful. A must listen.
- By Scotty on 10-05-22
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Where Shall We Run To?
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 16-08-18
- Language: English
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Letters to the Lady Upstairs
- By: Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis - translator
- Narrated by: Richard Hope
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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A charming, funny, poignant collection of 23 letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour. 102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris' eighth arrondissement. Upstairs lives Madame Williams with her second husband, an American dentist, and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, feverishly trying to write In Search of Lost Time, but all too often distracted by the incessant noise from the apartment above him - the footsteps and banging and unbearable moving of boxes and crates.
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Letters to the Lady Upstairs
- Narrated by: Richard Hope
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Release date: 02-11-17
- Language: English
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The Real Jane Austen
- A Life in Small Things
- By: Paula Byrne
- Narrated by: Louise Hulland
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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Since her death, people have got Jane Austen wrong. The real Jane - revealed for the first time in this landmark biography - was a less cosy, more spiky, more modern figure than she is usually imagined to be. Far from retelling a familiar story, Byrne’s book uses new research and new techniques to give us Jane Austen for the 21st century.
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Best buy the book!
- By R on 18-01-13
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The Real Jane Austen
- A Life in Small Things
- Narrated by: Louise Hulland
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 08-01-13
- Language: English
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Girl With Dove
- A Life Built By Books
- By: Sally Bayley
- Narrated by: Sally Bayley
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Sally grew up in a dilapidated house by the sea where men were forbidden, her childhood world filled with mystery and intrigue. Hippies trailed through the kitchen looking for God - their leader was Aunt Di, who ruled the house with charismatic force. When Sally’s baby brother vanished from his pram, she became suspicious of the activities going on around her. What happened to Baby David and the woman called Poor Sue? And where did all the people singing and wailing prayers in the front room suddenly go?
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Incantatory story of becoming
- By Fair_enough on 13-12-20
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Girl With Dove
- A Life Built By Books
- Narrated by: Sally Bayley
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 18-05-18
- Language: English
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Belle
- The True Story of Dido Belle
- By: Paula Byrne
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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In one of the most famous portraits in the world, a pretty girl walks through the grounds of Kenwood House, a vision of aristocratic refinement. But the eye is drawn to the beautiful woman on her right. Pointing at her own cheek, she playfully acknowledges her remarkable position in 18th-century society. For Dido Belle was the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy captain and a slave woman, adopted by the Earl of Mansfield. As Lord Chief Justice of England he would preside over the notorious Zong case - the drowning of 142 slaves by an unscrupulous shipping company.
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Slow Start, Great Finish!
- By Rachel OK on 11-07-15
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Belle
- The True Story of Dido Belle
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 08-05-14
- Language: English
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Born to Be Posthumous
- The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
- By: Mark Dery
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
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The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over 20,000 books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard?
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Born to Be Posthumous
- The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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Pops
- Fatherhood in Pieces
- By: Michael Chabon
- Narrated by: Michael Chabon
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood. You are born into a family, and those are your people, and they know you and they love you, and if you are lucky they even, on occasion, manage to understand you. And that ought to be enough. But it is never enough.
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A little journey into family - male perspective
- By Craig Nicolson on 30-08-21
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Pops
- Fatherhood in Pieces
- Narrated by: Michael Chabon
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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A House in St John's Wood: In Search of My Parents
- By: Matthew Spender
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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An intimate portrait of Stephen Spender's extraordinary life written by Matthew Spender, shifting between memoir and biography, with new insights drawn from personal recollections and his father's copious unpublished archives. Stephen Spender's life was a vivid prism on the 20th century. Having met Auden and Isherwood at Oxford, he joined the early vocal critics of Hitler and participated in the Spanish Civil War.
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A House in St John's Wood
- By S Riaz on 02-03-23
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A House in St John's Wood: In Search of My Parents
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-08-15
- Language: English
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