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Jimmy Carr
- Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
- By: Holly Newson
- Narrated by: Jimmy Carr
- Length: 26 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall41
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Performance37
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Story37
Carr, best known for his dark one-liners and signature laugh, didn't begin life as a comedian. After studying social science and political science at Cambridge, he began working for fuel company Shell. While there, he began reading self-help books and, feeling miserable, decided to make a change - he gave up his job and learned how to write jokes, got his first gig as a stand-up and changed his life!
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Always interesting
- By BUG Repeller on 17-03-23
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Jimmy Carr
- Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
- Narrated by: Jimmy Carr
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 15-10-21
- Language: English
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Jan Morris
- A Life - 'Breathtakingly good.' Michael Palin
- By: Sara Wheeler
- Narrated by: Sara Wheeler
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
'Brave, beautifully written and shrewdly researched . . . this is a riveting read by a writer at the top of her game.' The Times 'Seldom have I read such an enthralling biography.' Literary Review 'An exemplary Life, about a strange English writer of rare gifts and peculiar greatness.'...
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Interesting account of a fascinating life..but with flawed narration
- By Drosselmeyer on 02-06-26
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Jan Morris
- A Life - 'Breathtakingly good.' Michael Palin
- Narrated by: Sara Wheeler
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 07-04-26
- 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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Story13
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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Women Like Us
- A Memoir
- By: Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall80
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Performance74
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Story74
From her childhood, where there was no blueprint for success, to building a career as a bestselling novelist against all odds, Amanda Prowse explores what it means to be a woman in a world where popularity, slimness, beauty and youth are currency—and how she overcame all of that to forge her own path to happiness.
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Relatable
- By Ms. SFC on 11-04-25
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Women Like Us
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-09-22
- Language: English
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The Frood
- The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- By: Jem Roberts
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance16
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Story16
Douglas Adams is one of the most celebrated science fiction and comedy writers of his generation. He is best known for the best-selling radio, book, TV, and film series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, along with Dirk Gently's Detective Agency, episodes of Doctor Who, and his collaborations with members of Monty Python.
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Illuminating and entertaining
- By Nemo on 01-08-20
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Updike
- By: Adam Begley
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Story6
A masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike - a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work. In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America.
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Waspish about the Eastwick WASP?
- By Welsh Mafia on 06-09-15
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Updike
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-11-14
- Language: English
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Tibetan Peach Pie
- A True Account of an Imaginative Life
- By: Tom Robbins
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance43
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Story43
Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins' legendary memoir--wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe. Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home...
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Brilliantly narrated.
- By Robin Birney on 15-06-15
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Tibetan Peach Pie
- A True Account of an Imaginative Life
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 27-05-14
- Language: English
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Love from Boy
- Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother
- By: Donald Sturrock
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Thomas Judd
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance53
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Story53
'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .' So begins the first letter that a nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding-school headmaster. For most of his life, Roald...
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Dearest Mama
- By Rachel Redford on 20-06-16
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Love from Boy
- Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Thomas Judd
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-06-16
- Language: English
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A Man's Place
- By: Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance9
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Story8
Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France.
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Brilliantly written
- By Margaret A Young on 12-10-22
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A Man's Place
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 24-09-19
- Language: English
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Georgette Heyer
- Biography of a Bestseller
- By: Jennifer Kloester
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Story14
Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international best seller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's best-selling authors. Despite her enormous popularity, she never gave an interview or appeared in public. Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, when she was 17 in order to amuse her convalescent brother. It was published in 1921 to instant success, and 90 years later it has never been out of print.
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a fascinating biography of a favourite author
- By Amanda Sizeland on 13-02-18
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Georgette Heyer
- Biography of a Bestseller
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 08-06-15
- Language: English
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William Blake vs the World
- By: John Higgs
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall224
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Performance199
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Story196
Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, we return to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion to look afresh at Blake's life and work—and, crucially, his mind.
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An Exceptionial Artist - A Wonderful Exposition
- By N. Walsh on 12-06-21
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William Blake vs the World
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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Myself When Young
- The Shaping of a Writer
- By: Daphne Du Maurier
- Narrated by: Hattie Morahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her subsequent marriage. Here, the writer is open and sometimes painfully honest about the difficult...
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Myself When Young
- The Shaping of a Writer
- Narrated by: Hattie Morahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 11-12-25
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens
- A Life
- By: Claire Tomalin
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall627
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Performance458
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Story457
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Charles Dickens: A Life, the major new biography from the highly acclaimed Claire Tomalin, published for the 200th anniversary of his birth. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a...
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As lively a story as a good novel
- By Kirstine on 27-01-12
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Charles Dickens
- A Life
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 20-12-11
- Language: English
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One Day I'll Remember This
- Diaries 1987-1995
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the furore that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in love and a great writer at work. With devastating honesty and sparkling humour, she grapples with what it means for her sense of self to be so entwined with another - how to survive as an artist in a partnership that is both enthralling and uncompromising.
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Marvellous
- By ZOK on 09-06-25
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One Day I'll Remember This
- Diaries 1987-1995
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Series: Diaries, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-05-21
- Language: English
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The Boy Between
- A Mother and Son's Journey from a World Gone Grey
- By: Josiah Hartley, Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse, Josiah Hartley
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall109
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Performance99
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Story100
Josiah was 19 with the world at his feet when things changed. Without warning, the new university student's mental health deteriorated to the point that he planned his own death. His mother, bestselling author Amanda Prowse, found herself grappling for ways to help him, with no clear sense of where that could be found. This is the book they wish had been there for them during those dark times.
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Thankyou
- By doriss49 on 04-11-20
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The Boy Between
- A Mother and Son's Journey from a World Gone Grey
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse, Josiah Hartley
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 01-11-20
- Language: English
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Orwell's Roses
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance18
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Story18
Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. "Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening" wrote George Orwell in 1940. Inspired by her encounter with the surviving roses that Orwell planted in his cottage in Hertfordshire, Rebecca Solnit explores how his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and the intertwined politics of nature and power.
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Words, words, words
- By Tout en chantant on 06-02-23
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Orwell's Roses
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 30-03-22
- Language: English
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Bookish
- A Love Letter to Reading
- By: Lucy Mangan
- Narrated by: Lucy Mangan
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance34
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Story34
Brought to you by Penguin. A love letter to all those who come alive when they pull a new treasure off the shelf, stay up late reading just one more page and pack their suitcases with clothes wedged between books instead of the other way around. From well-worn literary classics to steamy...
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Love the quick delivery and humour
- By TWAnov1968 on 24-05-25
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Bookish
- A Love Letter to Reading
- Narrated by: Lucy Mangan
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 13-03-25
- Language: English
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Fierce Attachments
- A Memoir
- By: Vivian Gornick
- Narrated by: Vivian Gornick
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the principal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband.
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Not for those with misophonia
- By EEL on 29-06-22
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Fierce Attachments
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Vivian Gornick
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 15-03-22
- Language: English
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Dry
- A Memoir
- By: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall276
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Performance235
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Story235
From the New York Times Bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes the story of one man trying to out-drink his memories, outlast his demons, and outrun his past. "I was addicted to "Bewitched" as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When he'd come home from work and Samantha...
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listened twice. love it.
- By G M F on 12-04-18
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Dry
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-06-03
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
- By: Paula Byrne
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance49
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English novelist Barbara Pym’s career was defined, in many senses, by rejection. Her first novel Some Tame Gazelle was turned down by every publisher she sent it out in 1935, finally published only 15 years later. Though she picked up a publisher from there and received modest praise, the publishing industry grew restless and her sales spiralled downwards. By her seventh novel, she had been dropped. This brilliant biography, brimming with Pym’s private diaries and intimate letters, offers a first full insight into Barbara Pym’s life and how it informed her writing.
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Excellent Woman
- By Dan Smith on 03-05-21
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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