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Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
- By: Miles J. Unger
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance51
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In 1900, an 18-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso made his first trip to Paris. It was in this glittering capital of the international art world that, after suffering years of poverty and neglect, he emerged as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. Fueled by opium and alcohol, inspired by raucous late-night conversations at the Lapin Agile cabaret, Picasso and his friends resolved to shake up the world.
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Informative without being dry
- By RWL on 14-05-19
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Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-03-18
- Language: English
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Bread of Angels
- By: Patti Smith
- Narrated by: Patti Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance23
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Story23
A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbours, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child's world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for sacred silver pennies.
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Enthralling and detailed storytelling
- By G F. on 22-01-26
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Bread of Angels
- Narrated by: Patti Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 04-11-25
- Language: English
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The King's Painter
- The Life and Times of Hans Holbein
- By: Franny Moyle
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance20
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Story20
Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realised portraiture, which includes representations of Henry VIII, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Anne of Cleves, Jane Seymour and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies he encountered during the course of two sojourns in England. But beyond these familiar images, which have come to define our perception of the world of the Henrician court, Holbein was a protean and multi-faceted genius.
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Great history book
- By A. McLaren on 16-10-24
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The King's Painter
- The Life and Times of Hans Holbein
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-05-22
- Language: English
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance49
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Story49
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know written and read by Colm Tóibín. 'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B...
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Fathers and Sons
- By Rachel Redford on 26-11-18
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 25-10-18
- Language: English
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Turner
- The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner
- By: Franny Moyle
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance35
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Story35
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Turner by Franny Moyle, read by John Sackville. The extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond...
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Very detailed but enjoyable
- By DSirus on 23-10-21
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Turner
- The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 07-07-16
- Language: English
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Old in Art School
- By: Nell Painter
- Narrated by: Nell Painter
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance9
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Story8
Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school - in her 60s - to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful, demands of a life fully lived.
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me, me, me
- By mcgeordie on 09-07-18
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Old in Art School
- Narrated by: Nell Painter
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 19-06-18
- Language: English
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Leonardo Da Vinci
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall1,597
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Performance1,398
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Story1,388
Read by acclaimed actor Alfred Molina, star of The Da Vinci Code, An Education and Chocolat, this is the definitive biography of Leonardo Da Vinci. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative...
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An art history course in a book
- By Nando Cuca on 14-11-17
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Leonardo Da Vinci
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 17-10-17
- Language: English
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Dreaming in Color
- An Autobiography
- By: Kaffe Fassett
- Narrated by: Kaffe Fassett
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Kaffe Fassett has led an extraordinary life and is a captivating storyteller with a vivid memory. Born in 1937, he spent much of his youth in Big Sur, California, where his parents bought a cabin from Orson Welles and transformed it into the world-famous Nepenthe restaurant, a gathering place for artists and bohemians. After attending a boarding school run by the disciples of Krishnamurti, an Indian guru, he studied painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, then traveled to England, where he made his home.
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Wonderful story of a fantastic creative man
- By Janet Record on 10-05-26
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Dreaming in Color
- An Autobiography
- Narrated by: Kaffe Fassett
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 06-01-26
- Language: English
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Iconic
- The vibrant new autobiography from the legendary British fashion designer who dressed everyone from rockstars to royalty
- By: Zandra Rhodes, Ella Alexander
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Brought to you by Penguin. Dame Zandra Rhodes has spent her life rallying against what was expected of her, both as a designer and a woman. Often perceived as too bold for the mainstream, she fought for creativity and individuality, and continues to achieve both in everything she does. In this...
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Interesting, entertaining and fascinating.
- By bella freud on 28-07-25
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Iconic
- The vibrant new autobiography from the legendary British fashion designer who dressed everyone from rockstars to royalty
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 18-07-24
- 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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Snowdon
- The Biography
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance22
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Story22
How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the queen's sister and become the establishment figure Lord Snowdon? The brilliantly talented Antony Armstrong-Jones often humiliated Princess Margaret, yet he was compassionate to the causes he cared about. Since his death in 2017, Snowdon still hasn't escaped the limelight, as more and more is revealed about his wild and intriguing life.
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Very Informative, Moving but Dreadful Narration
- By Sue Day on 23-08-22
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Snowdon
- The Biography
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-04-21
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- By: Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance13
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Master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography. In this work, which was actually begun in 1558 but not published until 1730, Cellini beautifully chronicles his flamboyant times. He tells of his adventures in Italy and France, and his relations with popes, kings, and fellow artists.
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Best Book I ever read (listened)
- By Smith family on 18-07-11
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-12-06
- Language: English
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Leonardo da Vinci
- The Mind Behind the Masterpieces
- By: Jasmine Dyggan
- Narrated by: Derek Monaghan
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance64
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Story64
Step into the life of one of history’s greatest thinkers and discover how a curious boy from a small village in Italy changed the world forever. From the delicate brushstrokes of the Mona Lisa to the engineering marvels scribbled into secret notebooks, Leonardo da Vinci didn’t just create art—he imagined the future. In this richly detailed and accessible biography, listeners young and old will explore ten fascinating aspects of Leonardo’s genius. Each chapter unlocks a new side of the man whose mind refused to be confined by any single label.
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A Fresh Look at a Brilliant Mind
- By Anonymous on 27-03-26
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Leonardo da Vinci
- The Mind Behind the Masterpieces
- Narrated by: Derek Monaghan
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 21-08-25
- 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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Malice in Wonderland
- The witty and perceptive diaries of Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer, 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - FINANCIAL TIMES
- By: Hugo Vickers
- Narrated by: Hugo Vickers
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance23
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Hugo Vickers's adventures in the world of Cecil Beaton: an unputdownable portrait of a vanishing age, featuring untold anecdotes and thrilling titbits of royal gossip 'A fascinating document, a window on to a lost world of glamour, grandeur and snobbery . . . an elegy, sad and comical, to a...
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Tedious twaddle
- By Alex G on 07-04-26
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Malice in Wonderland
- The witty and perceptive diaries of Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer, 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - FINANCIAL TIMES
- Narrated by: Hugo Vickers
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 13-05-21
- Language: English
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Un vago temblor de estrella
- Trayectoria de una artista trans-cultural
- By: Terry Holiday, Antoine Rodríguez
- Narrated by: Terry Holiday, Antoine Rodríguez
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Terry nace en la Ciudad de México en los años 1950, en un período de fuerte conservadurismo obsesionado con la defensa de la «moral y las buenas costumbres», tanto en la vida privada como pública. Homosexuales, travestis, trabajadoras sexuales y personas trans eran frecuentemente objeto de redadas y extorsiones por desobedecer la estricta norma (hetero)sexual. Terry sueña con otra vida. Sus primeras representaciones en dibujos y pinturas pronto revelan su talento como artista plástica.
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Un vago temblor de estrella
- Trayectoria de una artista trans-cultural
- Narrated by: Terry Holiday, Antoine Rodríguez
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 12-05-26
- Language: Spanish
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今という永遠 写真家・操上和美の90年
- (幻冬舎)
- Narrated by: 浅木 俊之
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 15-05-26
- Language: Japanese
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Self-Portrait
- By: Celia Paul
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this intimate short smemoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past and present selves. From her move to the Slade School of Fine Art at 16, through a profound and intense affair with the older and better-known artist Lucian Freud, to the practises of her present-day studio, she meticulously assembles the surprising, beautiful, haunting scenes of a life. Paul brings to her prose the same qualities that she brings to her art.
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The narrator and story
- By Silvermoongal on 03-08-25
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Self-Portrait
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 30-06-22
- Language: English
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Vincent van Gogh
- A Biography
- By: Julius Meier-Graefe
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance45
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The lives of many famous artists have been shrouded in mystery and conjecture, but none have been more controversial than the life of Vincent van Gogh. Remembered for his swirling brushstrokes and burning colors, Vincent van Gogh is today one of the best-known painters. Though his career as a painter spanned less than ten years, he produced a body of work that remains one of the most enduring in all of modern art. In his lifetime, however, he received little recognition. Today his paintings sell for countless millions, yet during his lifetime, van Gogh managed to sell just one painting.
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Troubled genius
- By Tracy Bleakley on 20-12-24
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Vincent van Gogh
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 31-08-12
- Language: English
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The Last Days of John Lennon
- ‘I totally recommend it’ LEE CHILD
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Mathew Wolf, K.C. Clyde
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance37
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Brought to you by Penguin. ___________ 'Incredibly tense and thriller-like . . . I totally recommend it' LEE CHILD 'The dialogue is punchy, cinematic . . . we get inside the mind of Patterson's villain, the delusional Chapman, through periodic chapters from his point of view as he works up the...
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Somewhat misleading
- By Peter Christie on 25-06-21
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The Last Days of John Lennon
- ‘I totally recommend it’ LEE CHILD
- Narrated by: Mathew Wolf, K.C. Clyde
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-12-20
- Language: English
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