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Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes
- The Official Biography
- By: Rob Wilkins
- Narrated by: Rob Wilkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong....
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Sad, dignified, and humorous
- By Lynne Nicholson on 03-10-22
By: Rob Wilkins
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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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Amanda Prowse has built a bestselling career on the lives of fictional women. Now she turns the pen on her own life....
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STUNNING!
- By Joanna on 31-10-22
By: Amanda Prowse
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You Left Early
- A True Story of Love and Alcohol
- By: Louisa Young
- Narrated by: Louisa Young
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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This brutal, beautiful memoir from award-winning novelist Louisa Young is a heartbreaking portrayal of love, grief and the merciless grip of addiction....
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A masterpiece.
- By susie on 28-07-18
By: Louisa Young
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The World of Yesterday
- Memoirs of a European
- By: Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell - translator
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars....
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The Brink of Destruction
- By Rachel Redford on 26-07-17
By: Stefan Zweig, and others
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Walden
- Life in the Woods
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Alec Sand
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life describes his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years....
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Give it a try
- By Amazon Customer on 29-12-18
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Flush
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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One of the most famous of all literary dogs, Flush was the golden cocker spaniel belonging to Elizabeth Barrett....
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Voiceover skips entire parts of the book at a time
- By Sylva on 19-03-24
By: Virginia Woolf
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Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes
- The Official Biography
- By: Rob Wilkins
- Narrated by: Rob Wilkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong....
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Sad, dignified, and humorous
- By Lynne Nicholson on 03-10-22
By: Rob Wilkins
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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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Amanda Prowse has built a bestselling career on the lives of fictional women. Now she turns the pen on her own life....
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STUNNING!
- By Joanna on 31-10-22
By: Amanda Prowse
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You Left Early
- A True Story of Love and Alcohol
- By: Louisa Young
- Narrated by: Louisa Young
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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This brutal, beautiful memoir from award-winning novelist Louisa Young is a heartbreaking portrayal of love, grief and the merciless grip of addiction....
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A masterpiece.
- By susie on 28-07-18
By: Louisa Young
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The World of Yesterday
- Memoirs of a European
- By: Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell - translator
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars....
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The Brink of Destruction
- By Rachel Redford on 26-07-17
By: Stefan Zweig, and others
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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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Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life describes his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years....
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Give it a try
- By Amazon Customer on 29-12-18
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Flush
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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One of the most famous of all literary dogs, Flush was the golden cocker spaniel belonging to Elizabeth Barrett....
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Voiceover skips entire parts of the book at a time
- By Sylva on 19-03-24
By: Virginia Woolf
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Alan Bennett: Diaries
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Alan Bennett is one of the country's most celebrated and best-loved authors. This is an unmissable collection of diaries and memoirs from the acclaimed English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter....
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Enchanting and wickedly observant
- By J.K. Watson on 09-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
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Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Read by Alan Bennett
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs
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Funny, thoughtful, and fascinating, this wonderful series of essays and stories read by the author offers an extraordinary journey into an exceptional career of an award-winning writer....
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Liked
- By Janie on 18-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
- Revised and Expanded edition
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter - editor, Christopher Tolkien - editor
- Narrated by: Samuel West, Mike Grady, Chris Smith
- Length: 29 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.....
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Insightful and beautiful
- By Paul skinner on 07-04-24
By: J. R. R. Tolkien, and others
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On Writers and Writing
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities....
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Disappointing
- By TDP on 22-02-21
By: Margaret Atwood
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Letter to My Daughter
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....
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a love letter.
- By Anonymous User on 17-05-20
By: Maya Angelou
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A Prison Diary
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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On July 19, 2001, Jeffrey Archer - international best selling author - is sentenced to four years in prison for perjury...
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Not the full story
- By Cromwell on 01-05-15
By: Jeffrey Archer
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The Heart of a Woman
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Abridged
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In the fourth volume of her autobiography, The Heart of a Woman, Angelou's turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City....
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Wonderful
- By David on 07-07-15
By: Maya Angelou
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A Moveable Feast
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: James Naughton
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works....
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Amazing narration!
- By Suhair on 06-06-13
By: Ernest Hemingway
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Death in the Afternoon
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport....
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Unmissable if you have an interest in the subject
- By Charly on 25-06-11
By: Ernest Hemingway
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My Sand Life, My Pebble Life
- A Memoir of a Childhood and the Sea
- By: Ian McMillan
- Narrated by: Ian McMillan
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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My sand life, my pebble life. My life measured out in tides, coming in and going out. My life measured out in games of trying to spot the sea first....
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A northern life exposed to the elements of reality
- By Dr. N. WOODRUFF on 15-02-23
By: Ian McMillan
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Simple Passion
- By: Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner....
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Unflinching and beautiful
- By Anonymous User on 14-02-24
By: Annie Ernaux, and others
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In the Footsteps of Du Fu
- By: Michael Wood
- Narrated by: Michael Wood
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Du Fu (712-70) is one of China’s greatest poets. Now, broadcaster and historian Michael Wood follows in his footsteps to try to understand the places that inspired Du Fu to write some of the most famous and best-loved poetry the world has known....
By: Michael Wood
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy
- Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
- By: Nicholas Reynolds
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The shocking, untold story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway's secret life as a spy for both the Americans and the Soviets before and during World War II....
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Excellent
- By Tom O'Rourke on 29-09-21
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Ghosted
- An American Story
- By: Nancy French
- Narrated by: Nancy French
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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A compelling, thought-provoking memoir about Nancy French's journey from her family's mountain roots to success as a ghostwriter, only to be rejected by her party, church, and community....
By: Nancy French
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The Science of Middle-Earth
- A New Understanding of Tolkien and His World
- By: Roland Lehoucq, Loïc Mangin, Jean-Sébastien Steyer
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The world J.R.R. Tolkien created is one of the most beloved in all of literature, and continues to capture hearts and imaginations around the world. From Oxford to ComiCon, the Middle Earth is analyzed and interpreted through a multitude of perspectives....
By: Roland Lehoucq, and others
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Purgatory
- A Prison Diary 2
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Long days of boredom in confinement, the general inefficiency of prison bureaucracy and a critically over-stretched prison service. The...
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it’s just not cricket
- By StephanieH on 07-12-21
By: Jeffrey Archer
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On Leopard Rock
- A Life of Adventures
- By: Wilbur Smith
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction....
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Fantastic.........
- By Cal777 on 18-07-18
By: Wilbur Smith
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Oscar
- A Life
- By: Matthew Sturgis
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 36 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Matthew Sturgis draws on a wealth of new material and fresh research, bringing alive the distinctive mood and characters of the fin de siècle in the richest and most compelling portrait of Oscar Wilde to date....
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Lots of well-researched information excellently organized
- By Tabby Cat on 23-03-24
By: Matthew Sturgis
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Elizabeth Jane Howard
- A Dangerous Innocence
- By: Artemis Cooper
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her....
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Superb!
- By Richard H on 01-08-20
By: Artemis Cooper
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Wanderers
- A History of Women Walking
- By: Kerri Andrews, Kathleen Jamie - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Lauren Baldwin
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps....
By: Kerri Andrews, and others
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Heaven
- A Prison Diary 3
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A flicker of light almost appears at the end of the tunnel for prisoner FF8282, as he is transferred to North Sea Camp near Boston...
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Brilliant
- By "supersapper" on 01-01-22
By: Jeffrey Archer
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
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Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....
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Excellent book. Foreign language quotations in reading a problem.
- By chloe sevigny on 09-02-22
By: Richard Ellman
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A Woman's Story
- By: Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Annie Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to capture the real woman....
By: Annie Ernaux, and others
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Lem [Polish Edition)
- Życie nie z tej ziemi [Life Out of This World]
- By: Wojciech Orliński
- Narrated by: Adam Bauman
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In a word: Stanisław Lem's life was out of this world. It's a story full of unexpected twists of fate, funny anecdotes, tragic events, small secrets, and big mysteries. It's the first Polish biography of Stanisław Lem, written by another science fiction writer, Wojciech Orliński....
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Fantastyczna biografia!
- By Anonymous User on 06-12-23
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Agatha Christie, British queen of crime novels: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
By: George Fritsche
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Everything Must Go
- The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
- By: Dorian Lynskey
- Narrated by: Dorian Lynskey
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
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From the Baillie Gifford and Orwell Prize longlisted author of The Ministry of Truth comes an equally original and revealing exploration of one of the central concerns of our times: fantasies and nightmares of the end of the world, from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man to the Manic Street Preachers’ Everything Must Go.
By: Dorian Lynskey
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J.R.R. Tolkien
- The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Author
- By: Liam Dale
- Narrated by: Liam Dale
- Length: 42 mins
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There are some names that just fall off the tongue with the lilting promise of great things, and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (usually abbreviated to JRR Tolkien) is a perfect example. In his own lifetime this softly spoken, pipe smoking, tweed clad Oxford College Professor, the quintessential Englishman, caused a tremendous stir when he wrote first “The Hobbit” and then “The Lord of the Rings”.
By: Liam Dale
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Rural Hours
- The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
- By: Harriet Baker
- Narrated by: Harriet Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman’s cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941. Rosamond Lehmann settles in a Berkshire village, seeking a lovers’ retreat, a refuge from war, and a means of becoming ‘a writer again’. Rural Hours tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the country and were forever changed by it.
By: Harriet Baker
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Plan B
- Further Thoughts on Faith
- By: Anne Lamott
- Narrated by: Anne Lamott
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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As Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place. Terrorism and war have become the new normal. Environmental devastation looms even closer. And there are personal demands on her faith as well – getting older; her mother's Alzheimer's; her son's adolescence and the passing of friends and time. Fortunately for those of us who are anxious about the state of the world, whose parents are also aging and dying, whose children are growing harder to recognise as they become teenagers, Plan B offers hope that we're not alone in the midst of despair.
By: Anne Lamott