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Legacy of Secrecy
- The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination
- By: Lamar Waldron
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 35 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance15
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Story15
John F. Kennedy’s assassination launched a frantic search to find his killers. It also launched a flurry of covert actions by Lyndon Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, and other top officials to hide the fact that in November 1963 the United States was on the brink of invading Cuba, as part of a JFK-authorized coup. The plan’s exposure could have led to a nuclear confrontation with Russia, but the cover-up prevented a full investigation into Kennedy’s assassination, a legacy of secrecy that would impact American politics and foreign policy for the next 45 years.
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Well researched and credible
- By Gadget Freak on 06-03-19
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Legacy of Secrecy
- The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 35 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-04-12
- Language: English
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Hitch-22
- A Memoir
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,544
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Performance1,271
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Story1,263
In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date, from his childhood in Portsmouth, with his adoring, tragic mother and reserved Naval officer father; to his life in Washington DC, the base from which from he would launch fierce attacks on tyranny of all kinds. Along the way, he recalls the girls, boys and booze; the friendships and the feuds; the grand struggles and lost causes; and the mistakes and misgivings that have characterised his life.
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Honest but difficult listening
- By Penny on 18-06-16
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Hitch-22
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 26-12-11
- Language: English
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Honoured
- Survival, Strength and My Path to Politics
- By: Naz Shah
- Narrated by: Naz Shah
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Story13
By the age of five, Naz Shah was used to the sight of her father beating her mother. At six, her father left the family for a teenage neighbour. At twelve, she was sent to Pakistan for protection from her mother's new abuser, only to be forced into marriage at the age of fifteen. Within a couple...
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Emotional lived experience
- By Amrana on 15-03-26
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Sophie
- Saving the Royal Family: the new Royal biography of the Duchess of Edinburgh by bestselling author Sean Smith
- By: Sean Smith
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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Sophie has become the figure within the family who is the comforter to its members and a reassuring and inspiring presence for the country. She is a modern woman and yet a throwback to happier Royal times. She is now the 'glue that binds'. During some of the darkest days of the Royal Family...
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A Enjoyable Listen - But Sophie Deserves More
- By Miss L on 20-07-25
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Sophie
- Saving the Royal Family: the new Royal biography of the Duchess of Edinburgh by bestselling author Sean Smith
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 17-07-25
- Language: English
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Downsizing
- How I lost 8 stone, reversed my diabetes and regained my health
- By: Tom Watson
- Narrated by: Tom Watson
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall410
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Performance353
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Story355
Tom Watson began to put on weight in his early 20s, having developed an appetite for fast food and cheap beer while studying at the University of Hull. As time progressed - and his penchant for anything sweet, fatty or fizzy persisted - he found himself adjusting his belt, loosening his collar and upsizing his wardrobe to XXL. He continued to pile on the pounds when he entered the world of politics as MP for West Bromwich East (despite short-lived flirtations with fad diets and fitness classes). By December 2014, his bathroom scales had tipped to 22 stone.
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Inspirational, shocking and addictive.
- By Paul Cusick on 15-01-20
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Downsizing
- How I lost 8 stone, reversed my diabetes and regained my health
- Narrated by: Tom Watson
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 02-01-20
- Language: English
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Collateral Damage
- Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump
- By: Kim Darroch
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall150
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Performance133
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Story132
‘Much bigger and more ambitious than a first-person “rise and fall” … Great vignettes and classy analysis from the man who until a year ago sat at the top of the diplomatic tree … There is nothing dusty or dry in his account of dealing with the twin forces of Boris and Donald, and how...
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Dispatches from our man in Washington
- By papapownall on 07-10-20
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Collateral Damage
- Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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The Crown in Crisis
- Countdown to the Abdication
- By: Alexander Larman
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance30
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Story30
In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the execution of Charles I. The ruling monarch, Edward VIII, wished to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson and crown her as his Queen. His actions scandalised the...
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Abdication = lucky escape
- By Mary Carnegie on 05-08-20
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The Crown in Crisis
- Countdown to the Abdication
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 09-07-20
- Language: English
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Midnight in Moscow
- A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West
- By: John J. Sullivan, Jim Mattis - introduction
- Narrated by: John J. Sullivan, Matt Godfrey
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation. For weeks before Russia’s...
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Misunderstanding Russian Motives
- By Echternacher on 05-12-24
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Midnight in Moscow
- A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West
- Narrated by: John J. Sullivan, Matt Godfrey
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 06-08-24
- Language: English
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Do Not Disturb
- The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
- By: Michela Wrong
- Length: 18 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall71
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Performance61
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Story60
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022 ‘Superb’ The Times ‘Engrossing and revelatory' Observer ‘Powerful, compelling and meticulously researched’ New Statesman A new book from the award winning author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz,Do Not Disturb explores the controversial career of...
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compelling. chilling.
- By Little Chandler on 15-01-25
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Do Not Disturb
- The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
- Length: 18 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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Act of Treason
- The Role of J. Edgar Hoover in the Assassination of President Kennedy
- By: Mark North
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 23 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance25
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Story24
In this meticulously researched classic of the JFK conspiracy genre that Library Journal calls "sensational", Mark North argues convincingly that President John F. Kennedy died as the result of a plot masterminded by Louisiana Mafia chieftain Carlos Marcello - and, more importantly, that FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover learned early on about the plan but did nothing to stop it. Hoover warned no one - not the Dallas police, not the Secret Service. His motives, North suggests, stemmed from a fervent hatred of Kennedy and fear that the President would eventually fire him.
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The dark chareacters of LBJ and Hoover exposed.
- By Mark Lynch on 02-01-18
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Act of Treason
- The Role of J. Edgar Hoover in the Assassination of President Kennedy
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 23 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 17-02-13
- Language: English
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The Boer War
- By: Winston Churchill
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance43
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Story43
As a young, ambitious soldier, Winston Churchill managed to get himself posted to the 21st Lancers in 1899 as a war correspondent for the Morning Post - and joined them in fighting the rebel Boer settlers in South Africa. In this conflict, rebel forces in the Transvaal and Orange Free State had proclaimed their own statehood, calling it the Boer Republic.
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Does Not Cut It
- By Hardy Wilson on 23-10-16
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The Boer War
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 15-09-15
- Language: English
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The Reign: Life in Elizabeth's Britain, Part I
- The Way It Was, 1952-79
- By: Matthew Engel
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, sweets were rationed, mums stayed home and kids played on bombsites. Seventy years on, everything has changed utterly—except the Queen herself, ageing far more gracefully than the fractious nation over which she so lightly presides. How did we get from there to here in a single reign? To cancel culture, anti-vaxxers and Twitter feeds? Matthew Engel tells the story—starting with the years from Churchill to Thatcher—with his own light touch and a wealth of fascinating, forgotten, often funny detail.
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Wonderful review of Britain from 50s to 70s
- By Julia Mann on 18-10-24
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The Reign: Life in Elizabeth's Britain, Part I
- The Way It Was, 1952-79
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 13-12-22
- Language: English
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The Prosecutor
- The Gripping True Story of One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice from the Bestselling Author of The Volunteer
- By: Jack Fairweather
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING, COSTA PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE VOLUNTEER The true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after WWII to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past. At the end of the...
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The Prosecutor
- The Gripping True Story of One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice from the Bestselling Author of The Volunteer
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 27-02-25
- Language: English
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Taking the Lead
- A Dog at Number 10
- By: John Crace
- Narrated by: George Weightman
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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It started when a chance encounter with Sadiq Khan's Labrador landed Herbie a job working as a special advisor to Ed Miliband in 2014. Then he was summoned by David Cameron to work on the Remain campaign in the EU referendum. He experienced the pain of working with Theresa May; was sacked and then rehired by Boris Johnson to advise on Covid; was at Balmoral when the Queen died; had a ringside seat for Liz Truss; was fired by Rishi Sunak and then latterly taken on by Keir Starmer.
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Political autobiography of the century!
- By Mary Carnegie on 24-10-24
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Taking the Lead
- A Dog at Number 10
- Narrated by: George Weightman
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 24-10-24
- Language: English
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The Life and Death of Ella Grand Duchess of Russia
- A Romanov Tragedy
- By: Christopher Warwick
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Described as the 'most beautiful princess in Europe', and a woman 'capable of arousing profane passion', this is the story of a woman whose life combined privilege and tragedy, love and riches, conviction and courage, humanity and inhumanity.
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The Life and Death of Ella Grand Duchess of Russia
- A Romanov Tragedy
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 14-02-23
- Language: English
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Siege
- Trump Under Fire
- By: Michael Wolff
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Michael Wolff
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall282
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Performance245
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With Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in Siege, he has written an equally essential and explosive book about a presidency that is under fire from almost every side. A stunningly fresh narrative that begins just as Trump’s second year as president is getting underway and ends with the delivery of the Mueller report, Siege reveals an administration that is perpetually beleaguered by investigations and a president who is increasingly volatile, erratic and exposed.
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Riveting, depressing, terrifying
- By Declan C on 02-07-19
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Siege
- Trump Under Fire
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Michael Wolff
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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The Case for Trump
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: David Lertham
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance43
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Story41
A New York Times Bestseller The bestselling historian explains how a renegade businessman became one of the most successful—and necessary—presidents of all time. “A brilliant and bracing analysis from one of the great thinkers and writers of our time.” —Mark R. Levin In The Case for...
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Trump Season One
- By Amazon Customer on 13-03-19
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The Case for Trump
- Narrated by: David Lertham
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 05-03-19
- Language: English
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I Have America Surrounded
- The Life of Timothy Leary
- By: John Higgs
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance21
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FOREWORD BY WINONA RYDER Tune in, turn on, drop out. So said Timothy Leary, global figurehead for sixties psychedelic culture and 'the most dangerous man in America' according to President Nixon. A psychologist at Harvard, Leary was forced to leave when he started to dedicate his efforts to...
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Look no further!
- By Mr Gareth Fisher on 09-10-23
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I Have America Surrounded
- The Life of Timothy Leary
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 05-10-23
- Language: English
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Embroidering Her Truth
- Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
- By: Clare Hunter
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance56
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Story55
An alternative biography of Mary, Queen of Scots through the textiles of her life from the author of Sunday Times bestseller Threads of Life. I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material world that...
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Fabulous
- By Mr Burgess on 25-08-22
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Embroidering Her Truth
- Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 17-03-22
- Language: English
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By Your Side: My Life Loving Barbara Windsor
- By: Scott Mitchell
- Narrated by: Hilary Evans, Scott Mitchell
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall183
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Performance169
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Story169
'I'm so glad you had the life you did, Barbara. I'm sorry you can't remember, but my God, what a life! You haven't wasted a minute of it...' In December 2020, while the world was gripped with news of an imminent third lockdown, Scott Mitchell was visiting the care home where his partner and wife...
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A heartbreaking and heart warming read
- By Sarah on 03-11-23
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By Your Side: My Life Loving Barbara Windsor
- Narrated by: Hilary Evans, Scott Mitchell
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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