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A Life of One's Own
- Nine Women Writers Begin Again
- By: Joanna Biggs
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A few years into her marriage and under pressure to surrender to domesticity, Joanna Biggs found herself longing for a different kind of existence. The relationship was calm and her husband was a good man, but was this all there was? She divorced without knowing what would come next. Newly untethered, Joanna returned to the free-spirited writers of her youth and was soon reading in a fever - desperately searching for evidence of lives that looked more like her own, for the messiness and freedom, for a possible blueprint for intellectual fulfilment.
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Not my usual read
- By Umniaka on 12-01-24
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A Life of One's Own
- Nine Women Writers Begin Again
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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Notes to John
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Julianne Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Utterly fascinating’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘An act of intimate storytelling’ VOGUE ‘A profound, rich document’ NEW STATESMAN A deeply moving, newly discovered journal from one of America’s most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of...
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Invasive
- By Amazon Customer on 24-04-25
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Notes to John
- Narrated by: Julianne Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 22-04-25
- Language: English
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Buster Keaton
- A Filmmaker's Life
- By: James Curtis
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 31 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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**One of Literary Hub’s Five “Most Critically Acclaimed” Biographies of 2022** From acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis—a major biography, the first in more than two decades, of the legendary comedian and filmmaker who elevated physical comedy to the highest of arts and...
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Fascinating, Moving Biography of a Genius
- By Simon E. on 17-07-23
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Buster Keaton
- A Filmmaker's Life
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 31 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-02-22
- Language: English
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The Smoking Diaries
- The Smoking Diaries, Volume 1
- By: Simon Gray
- Narrated by: Simon Gray
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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When he turned 65, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the days' events with a view to posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly, turbulently, digressively expressed. One of Britain's most amusing and original writers reflects on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many more disasters - a record of shame, adultery, friendship and love. Few diarists have ever been so frank about themselves and even fewer so entertaining.
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Wonderful
- By Amazon Customer on 26-10-23
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The Smoking Diaries
- The Smoking Diaries, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Simon Gray
- Series: The Smoking Diaries, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 13-12-12
- 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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'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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Decca
- The Letters of Jessica Mitford
- By: Jessica Mitford
- Narrated by: Alistair Petrie, Lucy Scott
- Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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'Enthralling and gloriously honest' SUNDAY TIMES The captivating letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible of the notorious Mitford sisters. Here's what readers are saying: 'It is both laugh-out-loud funny and enthralling' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A wonderful record of a remarkable...
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Decca
- The Letters of Jessica Mitford
- Narrated by: Alistair Petrie, Lucy Scott
- Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 29-01-26
- Language: English
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Latest Readings
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance11
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In 2010,Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would "live, read, and perhaps even write". James is the award-winning author of dozens of works of literary criticism, poetry, and history, and this volume contains his reflections on what may well be his last reading list.
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Not Clive reading
- By hobans48 on 08-06-19
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Latest Readings
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-10-15
- Language: English
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The Secret Heart
- John Le Carré: An Intimate Memoir
- By: Suleika Dawson
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance13
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A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of the Year 2022 A Waterstones Best Book of 2022: Biography The astonishing new portrait of the master of spy fiction, by the woman he kept secret for almost half his life John le Carré led...
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Frank, perceptive and uniquely moving
- By emeralda on 19-11-22
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The Secret Heart
- John Le Carré: An Intimate Memoir
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 18-10-22
- Language: English
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To the River
- A Journey Beneath the Surface
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall120
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Performance106
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Over 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore. Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.
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Wonderful book Terrible narrator
- By Ms M L Vandermerwe on 06-03-20
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To the River
- A Journey Beneath the Surface
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-05-19
- Language: English
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A Life of My Own
- By: Claire Tomalin
- Narrated by: Penelope Wilton
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance130
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Penguin presents A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin, read by Dame Penelope Wilton. As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life. This enthralling memoir follows her through...
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Her autobiography as good as her biographies
- By Rachel Redford on 22-09-17
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A Life of My Own
- Narrated by: Penelope Wilton
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-09-17
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
- How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
- By: Elizabeth Winkler
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may...
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Compelling
- By Colliedog on 02-07-23
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
- How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 09-05-23
- Language: English
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- By: Sylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil - editor
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 30 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance12
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Published in their entirety, Sylvia Plath's journals provide an intimate portrait of the writer who was to produce in the last seven months of her life some of the most extraordinary poems of the 20th century. Faithfully transcribed from the 23 journals and journal fragments owned by Smith College, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath includes two journals that Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, unsealed just before his death in 1998.
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On the fence
- By Zoe on 03-06-19
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 30 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 28-05-19
- Language: English
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Walden
- Life in the Woods
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Alec Sand
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall109
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Performance82
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Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, Walden vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts.
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Give it a try
- By Amazon Customer on 29-12-18
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The Bronte Cabinet
- Three Lives in Nine Objects
- By: Deborah Lutz
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Brontë sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed. In this unique and lovingly detailed biography of a literary family that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries, Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the complex and fascinating lives of the Brontës through the things they wore, stitched, wrote on, and inscribed.
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Fascinating concept - shame about the inaccurate pronunciations !
- By Melanie on 14-03-16
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The Bronte Cabinet
- Three Lives in Nine Objects
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-08-15
- Language: English
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The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis
- How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
- By: Jason M Baxter
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the 20th century. Many know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. Others know him for his books in apologetics, including Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain. But few know him for his scholarly work as a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature. What shaped the mind of this great thinker?
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The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis
- How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-03-22
- Language: English
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Beatrix Potter Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman
- By: Judy Taylor
- Narrated by: Patricia Routledge
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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Overall50
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Performance43
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The downloadable audiobook edition of Judy Taylor's classic biography, Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman, read by the actress Patricia Routledge. Starting with the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902, Beatrix Potter went on to become one of the world's most...
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Brilliant reading by Patricia Routledge
- By jen on 07-04-13
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Beatrix Potter Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman
- Narrated by: Patricia Routledge
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 25-10-12
- Language: English
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- The internationally bestselling classic
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first...
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Such perfect diction and attention to detail
- By Tessa Hancock on 12-03-15
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- The internationally bestselling classic
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 04-04-14
- 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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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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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
- Travels Through my Childhood
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Performance64
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Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt...
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Another 'Bill' Classic
- By Susan on 19-10-06
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
- Travels Through my Childhood
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 13-09-06
- Language: English
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Hardy Women
- Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
- By: Paula Byrne
- Narrated by: Dawn Murphy
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones 'He understands only the women he invents – the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his...
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Such interesting insight
- By Wowbagger_The_Third on 27-03-25
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Hardy Women
- Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
- Narrated by: Dawn Murphy
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-02-24
- Language: English
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