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Ian Fleming
- The Complete Man
- By: Nicholas Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 29 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance50
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Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche, and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote. Nicholas Shakespeare is one of the most gifted biographers working today and his unprecedented access to the Fleming archives and his nose for a story make this a fresh and eye-opening picture of a man who lived his life in the shadow of his famous creation.
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An Outstanding Biography
- By JOHN on 16-12-24
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Ian Fleming
- The Complete Man
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 29 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-10-23
- 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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Once upon a Tome
- The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
- By: Oliver Darkshire
- Narrated by: Oliver Darkshire
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance35
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Story35
Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackville Street (est. 1761) to interview for their bookselling apprenticeship, a decision which has bedevilled him ever since. He'd intended to stay for a year before launching into some less dusty, better remunerated career. Unfortunately for him, the alluring smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap proved irresistible. Soon he was balancing stacks of first editions, fending off nonagenarian widows with and trying not to upset the store's resident ghost.
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Fabulous insight into the world of the book seller.
- By alexandra on 20-10-22
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Once upon a Tome
- The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
- Narrated by: Oliver Darkshire
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 06-10-22
- Language: English
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Survival is a Promise
- The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
- By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Narrated by: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Story7
In Survival Is a Promise, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde’s manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Audre Lorde. Her life and work swell to become a cosmic force, showing us the grand possibility of life together on earth.
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gorgeous, detailed, extraordinary
- By Enduro Girl on 12-11-24
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Survival is a Promise
- The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
- Narrated by: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 20-08-24
- Language: English
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What Am I Doing Here?
- By: Bruce Chatwin
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance6
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Brought to you by Penguin. In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot'.
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Bruce Chatwin/Hugh Fraser
- By Anonymous on 23-05-23
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What Am I Doing Here?
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 24-10-19
- Language: English
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Samuel Pepys
- The Unequalled Self
- By: Claire Tomalin
- Narrated by: Jill Balcon
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Abridged
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Overall136
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Performance101
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Story101
Samuel Pepys kept a diary in which he wrote with astonishing candour about the life he saw around him in London in the 1660s, and about his private desires and ambitions. The diary was kept for fewer than 10 years of his long life: Claire Tomalin tells the whole story of the Fleet Street tailor's son who made himself rich and powerful, an MP and adviser to royalty.
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Essential reading before you read the diaries.
- By MrPower on 23-07-20
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Samuel Pepys
- The Unequalled Self
- Narrated by: Jill Balcon
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 14-02-05
- Language: English
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The Older I Get…
- How I repowered my life
- By: Fern Britton
- Narrated by: Fern Britton
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall122
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Performance118
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Story118
Fern had recently entered her 60s when a series of life-altering events threw her into the eye of the storm. Both her parents passed away, her 20-year marriage ended, and the pandemic was looming. Faced with an uncertain future, Fern decided that if she wanted to start over, now was the time. In The Older I Get, join Fern as she candidly shares her experiences of grief and loss, rebuilding confidence and exploring new passions, as well as the importance of finding friends you can put the world to rights with over a couple of Cosmos.
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Fulfilling Inspiration
- By LHarris on 07-06-26
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The Older I Get…
- How I repowered my life
- Narrated by: Fern Britton
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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The Marriage Question
- George Eliot's Double Life
- By: Clare Carlisle
- Narrated by: Clare Carlisle
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance8
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Story8
When she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot - an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewes - writer, philosopher and married father of three. After 'eloping' to Berlin in 1854 they lived together for twenty-four years: Eliot asked people to call her 'Mrs Lewes' and dedicated each novel to her 'Husband'. Though they could not legally marry, she felt herself initiated into the 'great experience' of marriage.
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Engaging and informative
- By Lady Macbeth on 21-08-23
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The Marriage Question
- George Eliot's Double Life
- Narrated by: Clare Carlisle
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-08-23
- Language: English
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Memoirs
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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Story12
Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes). From his childhood days to Oxford and army life, his travels abroad and his years as a successful novelist, Memoirs offers extraordinary insights into a unique literary life.
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A good storyteller.
- By C E WATSON on 18-06-24
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Memoirs
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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All Down Darkness Wide
- A Memoir
- By: Seán Hewitt
- Narrated by: Seán Hewitt
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance36
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Story36
When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple comes face-to-face with crisis. Wrestling with this, Seán Hewitt delves deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures and poets before him. From a 19th-century cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests of Gothenburg, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of solace and hope. All Down Darkness Wide is an unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds.
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Haunting memoir
- By A reader on 28-02-23
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All Down Darkness Wide
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Seán Hewitt
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 14-07-22
- Language: English
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A Private Spy
- The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: David Harewood, Florence Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance21
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Story21
John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation but also had an extraordinary life, from his childhood with a con man father to his inimitable career as a writer. From his involvement in the Cold War, time in Berlin, travels to Vietnam and engagement with world leaders, his experiences were truly remarkable. This collection of letters reveals John le Carré—the man, the writer and his world—for the first time and most intimately.
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An extraordinary life in letters
- By Crawford jamieson on 28-02-23
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A Private Spy
- The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020
- Narrated by: David Harewood, Florence Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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The Outsider
- My Life in Intrigue
- By: Frederick Forsyth
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall263
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Performance225
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Story224
We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To this day, I still maintain it was not entirely my fault. But I'm getting ahead of myself. During the course of my life, I've barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, been strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, and landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau.
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Curiously No Sense of Irony
- By Dr on 04-10-15
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The Outsider
- My Life in Intrigue
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-09-15
- Language: English
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Working
- Researching, Interviewing, Writing
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Robert A Caro
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall118
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Performance107
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Story107
In Working he offers a captivating account of his life as a writer, describing the sometimes staggering lengths to which he has gone in order to produce his books and offering priceless insights into the art and craft of non-fiction writing. Anyone interested in investigative journalism and the pursuit of truth, in the writer’s process and the creation of literature, in the art of interviewing or simply the psychology of excellence will find a masterclass in all these subjects.
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Slow start but eventually becomes great & exciting
- By Yoda on 30-06-19
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Working
- Researching, Interviewing, Writing
- Narrated by: Robert A Caro
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-04-19
- Language: English
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Heavy Light
- A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing
- By: Horatio Clare
- Narrated by: Horatio Clare
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance83
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Story81
After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under section two of the Mental Health Act. From hypomania in the Alps, to a complete breakdown and a locked ward in Wakefield, this is a gripping account of how the mind loses touch with reality, how we fall apart and how we can be healed - or not - by treatment. A story of the wonder and intensity of the manic experience, as well as its peril and strangeness, it is shot through with the love, kindness, humour and care of those who deal with someone who becomes dangerously ill.
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Honesty and humour of the author
- By reverend mother on 25-05-26
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Heavy Light
- A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing
- Narrated by: Horatio Clare
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 18-03-21
- Language: English
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Keats
- A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
- By: Lucasta Miller
- Narrated by: Sally Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance11
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The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone - 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water' - seemingly damned him to oblivion. When he died at the age of 25, having taken a battering from the conservative press, few critics imagined he would be considered one of the great English poets 200 years later, though he himself had an inkling. In this brief life, Lucasta Miller takes Keats' best-known poems - the ones you are most likely to have read - and excavates their backstories.
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Very knowledgeable and engaging
- By Kilmeny on 16-05-26
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Keats
- A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
- Narrated by: Sally Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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Arrangements in Blue
- Notes on Love and Making a Life
- By: Amy Key
- Narrated by: Amy Key
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance41
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Story41
When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for her. Now in her forties, she sets out to explore the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love. Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - an album that shaped Key's expectations of love - as her guide, she examines the unexpected life she has created for herself.
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Not for me
- By Hola chico on 04-09-24
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Arrangements in Blue
- Notes on Love and Making a Life
- Narrated by: Amy Key
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-04-23
- Language: English
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Manifesto
- By: Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance118
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Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and activist, she moved from the margins to centre stage, taking her place in the spotlight at last. Her journey was a long one, but she made it, and she made history. Manifesto is Bernardine Evaristo's intimate and inspirational no-holds-barred account of how she did it, refusing to let any barriers stand in her way.
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Inspirational
- By Rashida on 24-11-21
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Manifesto
- Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 07-10-21
- Language: English
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A Woman in Arabia
- The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
- By: Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell - editor, Georgina Howell - introduction
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas, Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance54
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A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog...
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Beautiful book and listen
- By Firas on 12-11-20
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A Woman in Arabia
- The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas, Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 27-10-15
- Language: English
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Life After Death
- By: Damien Echols
- Narrated by: Damien Echols
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall167
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Performance148
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Story148
In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.—who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three—were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria...
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Emotionally charged volt of literary genius !!!
- By Sam H. on 08-08-17
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Life After Death
- Narrated by: Damien Echols
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 18-09-12
- Language: English
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Pale Horse Rider
- William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America
- By: Mark Jacobson
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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We are living in a time of unprecedented distrust in America... Faith in the government is at an all-time low, and political groups on both sides of the aisle are able to tout preposterous conspiracy theories as gospel, without much opposition. “Fake news” is the order of the day. This book...
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Good insight to the man
- By Caomhin on 21-05-19
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Pale Horse Rider
- William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 04-09-18
- Language: English
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