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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
- By: Julian Barnes
- Narrated by: Julian Barnes
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance57
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Story56
Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on morality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that 'this is not my autobiography', the result is a tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers.
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Frustrating but worth persevering with.
- By A Reader on 15-06-09
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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
- Narrated by: Julian Barnes
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 19-03-09
- Language: English
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
- By: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- Narrated by: Nick Sagan, Ann Druyan, Clinnette Minnis
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance13
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Story14
World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a Roots for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits - self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics - are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals.
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Conflicted
- By Edward R Lyons on 25-04-20
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
- Narrated by: Nick Sagan, Ann Druyan, Clinnette Minnis
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 25-07-17
- Language: English
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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism
- A Warning to the Global Middle Class
- By: Joel Kotkin
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall275
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Performance241
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Story242
Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last 70 years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging. The new class structure resembles that of Medieval times.
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Catchy title but intellectually lazy thesis
- By Oisín on 09-08-21
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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism
- A Warning to the Global Middle Class
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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When the Revolution Comes
- 'A modern-day Grapes of Wrath' Irish Times
- By: Chris Smalls
- Narrated by: Chris Smalls, Tyrell Harrell
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The outrageous, jaw-dropping true story of the man who took on a corporate giant – and won. A dedicated and experienced Amazon employee, Chris Smalls had begun to feel frustrated by the inner workings of the retail giant – he kept being passed over for promotion, with little to no...
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When the Revolution Comes
- 'A modern-day Grapes of Wrath' Irish Times
- Narrated by: Chris Smalls, Tyrell Harrell
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 25-06-26
- Language: English
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Who Dies?
- An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
- By: Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The first book that explains how to open to the immensity of living with death—and how participating fully in life is the perfect preparation for whatever may come next. In Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying, the Levines provide calm compassion rather than the frightening melodrama of death. A meaningful insight how to participate fully in life as the perfect preparation for whatever may come next, be it sorrow or joy, loss or gain, death or a new wonderment at life.
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Who Dies?
- An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 20-11-24
- Language: English
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
- Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
- By: Caitlin Doughty
- Narrated by: Caitlin Doughty
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall531
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Performance461
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Story461
What happens if someone dies on a plane? Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral? Why don't animals dig up all the graves? Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried? Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. In this book she offers factual...
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very enjoyable
- By Rhiannon on 24-09-19
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
- Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
- Narrated by: Caitlin Doughty
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 19-09-19
- Language: English
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Rural
- The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
- By: Rebecca Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024 ‘Eye-opening and persuasive’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Brilliant … I loved it’ KIT DE WAAL ‘Thoughtful, moving, honest’ CAL FLYN *Winner of The Lakeland Book of the Year 2024* Work in the countryside ties you, soul and salary, to the...
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Thoroughly interesting, enjoyable and absorbing.
- By Anonymous on 15-06-23
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Rural
- The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-06-23
- Language: English
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- By: Michael J. Sandel
- Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall381
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Performance314
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Story306
Brought to you by Penguin. These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the...
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a unified theory of discourse as we know it
- By Stuart Robertson on 05-11-20
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-09-20
- Language: English
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Progress and Poverty
- The Economic Classic with a New Foreword
- By: Henry George, Ayrton Parham - foreword
- Narrated by: Eli Snuggs
- Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
Capitalism has blessed the world with wealth and technological miracles. It has also cursed it with urban slums, powerless workers, and the vicious boom-and-bust economy. If only there were some way to fix the problems of capitalism and keep all its benefits. In 1897, Henry George published his solution to this puzzle, Progress and Poverty. He suggested that, unlike all other taxes, a tax on land doesn't discourage entrepreneurship. A single tax on land can raise the revenues we need to help the poor without destroying the incentive to create wealth.
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Absolutely the wrong voice for this book.
- By Ben Osborne on 15-04-26
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Progress and Poverty
- The Economic Classic with a New Foreword
- Narrated by: Eli Snuggs
- Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-07-22
- Language: English
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London Clay
- Journeys in the Deep City
- By: Tom Chivers
- Narrated by: Tom Chivers
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Story15
Tom Chivers follows hidden pathways, explores lost islands and uncovers the geological mysteries that burst up through the pavement and bubble to the surface of our streets. From Roman ruins to a submerged playhouse, from an abandoned Tube station to underground rivers, Chivers leads us on a journey into the depths of the city he loves.
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Too much uninformed opinion
- By Amazon Customer on 18-10-21
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London Clay
- Journeys in the Deep City
- Narrated by: Tom Chivers
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 09-09-21
- Language: English
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The Greatest
- My Own Story
- By: Muhammad Ali, Richard Durham
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall497
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Performance449
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Story446
In his own words, the heavyweight champion of the world pulls no punches as he chronicles the battles he faced in and out of the ring in this fascinating memoir edited by Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Toni Morrison. Growing up in the South, surrounded by racial bigotry and discrimination, Ali fought not just for a living, but also for respect and rewards far more precious than money or glory. He was named Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated and the BBC.
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Awesome story from the champ himself
- By Lance Johnson on 02-07-16
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The Greatest
- My Own Story
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 25-05-16
- Language: English
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The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
- By: Abraham H. Maslow
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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Performance9
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Abraham H. Maslow was one of the foremost spokespersons of humanistic psychology. In The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature, an extension of his classic Toward a Psychology of Being, Maslow explores the complexities of human nature by using both the empirical methods of science and the aesthetics of philosophical inquiry. With essays on biology, synergy, creativity, cognition, self-actualization, and the hierarchy of needs, this posthumous work is a wide-ranging synthesis of Maslow's inspiring and influential ideas.
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Great to have the Audible
- By Dr. Stephen Gulliver on 30-06-22
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The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs
- Release date: 18-06-19
- Language: English
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Britain’s Brown Babies
- The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War
- By: Lucy Bland
- Narrated by: Katherine Margaret
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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This book reveals the little-known history of the mixed-race children born to Black American servicemen and White British women during the Second World War. Of the three million American soldiers stationed in Britain in 1942-45, about 240,000 were African American. Their relationships with British women resulted in the birth of an estimated 2,000 children. Britain’s Brown Babies presents the stories of more than 50 of these children against the backdrop of shifting government policy and attitudes of the time.
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excellent
- By Amazon Customer on 07-06-26
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Britain’s Brown Babies
- The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War
- Narrated by: Katherine Margaret
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 18-01-22
- Language: English
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Nice Racism
- How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
- By: Robin DiAngelo
- Narrated by: Robin DiAngelo
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance35
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Brought to you by Penguin. Racism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized. She also made a provocative claim: that white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of...
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Should be mandatory…
- By Ms Y G on 05-09-22
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Nice Racism
- How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
- Narrated by: Robin DiAngelo
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 29-06-21
- Language: English
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The Social Distance Between Us
- How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain
- By: Darren McGarvey
- Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall152
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Performance141
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Story139
From poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most. There is arguably one unifying theme that links all these afflictions: proximity. Proximity is how close we are to the action and how that affects how we assess, relate to and address whatever that action happens to be. Almost every job requires a level of experience and training with the notable exception of the most powerful people in the country—our political class.
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Should be read by all
- By iman on 18-07-22
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The Social Distance Between Us
- How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain
- Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-06-22
- Language: English
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Why We Love Serial Killers
- The Curious Appeal of the World's Most Savage Murderers
- By: Scott Bonn
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance76
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In Why We Love Serial Killers, criminology professor Dr. Scott Bonn explores our powerful appetite for the macabre, while also providing new and unique insights into the world of the serial killer, including those he has gained from his correspondence with two of the world’s most notorious examples, David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") and Dennis Rader ("Bind, Torture, Kill").
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Absolute Tripe
- By Kenneth on 18-06-19
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Why We Love Serial Killers
- The Curious Appeal of the World's Most Savage Murderers
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-10-14
- Language: English
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The Making of Them: The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System
- By: Nick Duffell
- Narrated by: Hugh Trethowan
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance39
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Story38
At the dawn of the 21st century, British society is still shaped by a private education system devised to gentrify the Victorian middle classes and produce gentlemen to run the Empire. Yet it is not on the political agenda. It is rarely the subject of public debate, and we remain blind to its psychological implications. Can we afford to go on ignoring this issue? Will we continue to sacrifice the welfare of our children to satisfy our antiquated social aspirations?
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Nearly
- By Izzy on 13-11-20
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The Making of Them: The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System
- Narrated by: Hugh Trethowan
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-02-16
- Language: English
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Fearing the Black Body
- The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
- By: Sabrina Strings
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance51
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Story50
There is an obesity epidemic in this country, and poor Black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health-care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat Black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than 200 years ago.
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Amazing book unfortunately bad narration
- By Olivia Woodward on 20-08-20
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Fearing the Black Body
- The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
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The Mismeasure of Man
- By: Stephen Jay Gould
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance28
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When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. Yet the idea of of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined.
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game changer
- By dp litchfield on 15-06-20
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The Mismeasure of Man
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 20-09-11
- Language: English
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Standing in Gaps
- By: Seamus O'Rourke
- Narrated by: Seamus O'Rourke
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance17
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When actor, playwright and comedian Seamus O'Rourke first published Standing in Gaps in 2020 it found a wide audience amongst readers in rural Ireland. With a distinct talent for seeing the absurd in the ordinary, mundane lives of people who 'had nothing better to be at' and making it hilarious, Standing in Gaps manages to turn back time and transport the listener to a place where everything moved slowly – and in the Leitrim of the '60s, '70s and '80s, that means really slowly.
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A gift.
- By Kindle Customer on 18-05-26
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Standing in Gaps
- Narrated by: Seamus O'Rourke
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-09-25
- Language: English
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