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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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In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date....
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Tour De Force
- By CCW on 18-09-12
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes
- Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
- By: Kit de Waal
- Narrated by: Kit de Waal
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From the award-winning author of My Name Is Leon, The Trick to Time and Supporting Cast comes a childhood memoir set to become a classic: stinging, warm-hearted and true....
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Superb
- By Amazon Customer on 19-08-22
By: Kit de Waal
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Happy-Go-Lucky
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all....
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Brilliant as ever - but a missed edit left in
- By keepingitreal on 11-06-22
By: David Sedaris
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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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On Writing
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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On Writing is part biography, part a collection of tips for the aspiring writer....
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Great personal insight
- By Blinkinmarvellous on 13-04-13
By: Stephen King
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Going Solo
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the second part of Roald Dahl's remarkable life story, following on from Boy....
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Snakes, Boats & Dogfights
- By O Day on 16-11-17
By: Roald Dahl
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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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In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date....
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Tour De Force
- By CCW on 18-09-12
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes
- Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
- By: Kit de Waal
- Narrated by: Kit de Waal
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From the award-winning author of My Name Is Leon, The Trick to Time and Supporting Cast comes a childhood memoir set to become a classic: stinging, warm-hearted and true....
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Superb
- By Amazon Customer on 19-08-22
By: Kit de Waal
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Happy-Go-Lucky
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all....
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Brilliant as ever - but a missed edit left in
- By keepingitreal on 11-06-22
By: David Sedaris
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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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On Writing
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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On Writing is part biography, part a collection of tips for the aspiring writer....
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Great personal insight
- By Blinkinmarvellous on 13-04-13
By: Stephen King
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Going Solo
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the second part of Roald Dahl's remarkable life story, following on from Boy....
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Snakes, Boats & Dogfights
- By O Day on 16-11-17
By: Roald Dahl
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Agatha Christie
- A Very Elusive Woman
- By: Lucy Worsley
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A new and fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from acclaimed historian Lucy Worsley....
By: Lucy Worsley
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Fear and Loathing, Book 1
- By: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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No book ever written has more perfectly captured the spirit of the 1960s counterculture....
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Much better than the clip suggests.
- By Roo on 27-02-19
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1982 Murakami began running to keep fit. Here he reflects on his running experiences....
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Surprising little gem
- By Sue on 05-04-17
By: Haruki Murakami
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Joseph Anton
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie, Sam Dastor
- Length: 27 hrs
- Unabridged
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On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death"....
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Where to start...
- By Thomas on 24-10-12
By: Salman Rushdie
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Jane Austen at Home
- By: Lucy Worsley
- Narrated by: Ruth Redman, Lucy Worsley
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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On the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death, historian Lucy Worsley leads us into the world in which our best-loved novelist lived....
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Outstanding!
- By Gabrielle Harvey-Jones on 27-05-17
By: Lucy Worsley
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The Best of Me
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris' best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume....
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Touching, funny, brilliant.
- By AmazonCustomer on 09-11-20
By: David Sedaris
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Letter to My Daughter
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Pour Me
- A Life
- By: A. A. Gill
- Narrated by: Dougray Scott
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A. A. Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon - driven to dry out, not out of a desire to change....
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The author would not approve
- By Reluctant Reviewer on 16-04-18
By: A. A. Gill
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
- By: Laurie Lee
- Narrated by: Laurie Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin....
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An absolute wonder!
- By Amazon Customer on 05-07-22
By: Laurie Lee
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Salman Rushdie at the 92nd Street Y
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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Mr. Rushdie reads from his newest novel, Shalimar the Clown....
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Very interesting.
- By Steven Waite on 15-04-21
By: Salman Rushdie
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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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Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. His life passed without recognition and he worked without reward, mocked, dismissed and misinterpreted....
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An Exceptionial Artist - A Wonderful Exposition
- By N. Walsh on 12-06-21
By: John Higgs
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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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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Charles Dickens: A Life....
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As lively a story as a good novel
- By Kirstine on 27-01-12
By: Claire Tomalin
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Hell
- A Prison Diary 1
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Prisoner FF8282 gazes out from confinement on what he deems must be a glorious summer’s day, rays of sunlight bursting through the barred...
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When the Hell?
- By arvis on 09-12-21
By: Jeffrey Archer
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
- Douglas Adams and the Digital World
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Douglas Adams, Mitch Benn
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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Technology affects almost everything we do, and its possibilities can be both exhilarating and daunting. This collection features two radio documentaries exploring Douglas Adams’ vision of the digital future, plus Did Douglas Get It Right?, presented by Mitch Benn....
By: Douglas Adams
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Homage to Catalonia
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell’s account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War....
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Excellent
- By Alastair Ball on 14-01-15
By: George Orwell
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Notes on Grief
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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On 10th June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria. In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy's girl, remembers her beloved father....
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It just sounded like me talking to me
- By J Aravind on 22-06-21
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The White Album
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Susan Varon
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s....
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Introspective ally to the external world
- By tamara on 02-11-19
By: Joan Didion
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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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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...
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Sometimes illuminating accidental ASMR
- By Amazon Customer on 10-08-22
By: Rebecca Solnit
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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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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....
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massively abridged
- By t on 05-04-19
By: Claire Tomalin
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Don't Panic
- Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Neil Gaiman
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1986 and updated several times since, Don’t Panic is in an in-depth exploration of Douglas Adams’s cultural phenomenon The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy....
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Facts for fun but far from from fun
- By LENGTHIAN on 18-05-21
By: Neil Gaiman
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James Patterson: The Stories of My Life
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: James Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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His best stories are the stories of his life. His father grew up in a New York poorhouse called the 'Pogie'. He worked at a psychiatric hospital where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell....
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Do not listen while driving or operating machinery
- By Lawrence Wray on 06-06-22
By: James Patterson
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Translating Myself and Others
- By: Jhumpa Lahiri
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages....
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
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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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A Moveable Feast
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: James Naughton
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works....
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A Movable Café
- By Apricot on 19-10-17
By: Ernest Hemingway
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes
- Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
- By: Kit de Waal
- Narrated by: Kit de Waal
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for his relatives in the Caribbean, cooked elaborate meals on a whim and splurged money they didn't have on cars, suits and shoes fit for a prince. Both of her parents were waiting for paradise. It never came.
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Superb
- By Amazon Customer on 19-08-22
By: Kit de Waal
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The Terrible Speed of Mercy
- A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor
- By: Jonathan Rogers
- Narrated by: Jeremy Childs
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Jonathan Rogers follows the roots of Flannery O’Connor’s fervent Catholicism and traces the outlines of a life marked by illness and suffering, but ultimately defined by an irrepressible joy. In her stories, and in her life story, Flannery O’Connor extends a hand in the dark, warning and reassuring us of the terrible speed of mercy.
By: Jonathan Rogers
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Black and Female
- By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Narrated by: Chipo Chung
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In five short essays, the award-winning writer dissects the nervous condition of being not only Black, and not only a woman, but also quote-unquote "postcolonial". Weaving together the experiences, events, intersections and negotiations of her multifaceted identity, Dangarembga offers a powerful vision of Black liberation.
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The World of J.R.R. Tolkien
- By: Dimitra Fimi, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Dimitra Fimi
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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In The World of J.R.R. Tolkien, you will join Dr. Dimitra Fimi to delve into Tolkien’s complex and multilayered mythology, examining all these ingredients and more. In these 10 lectures, you will explore and appreciate Middle-earth as medieval, mythological, and modern, a literary creation that was shaped by forces old and new. And you may be surprised to discover just how much of Tolkien’s legendarium was constructed posthumously, with his son Christopher compiling and publishing many of Tolkien’s later works after his death.
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Immersive and Fascinating
- By Hollie on 15-08-22
By: Dimitra Fimi, and others
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From the Corner of Bad and Ass
- By: Carrie Shiffler
- Narrated by: Carrie Schiffler
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Corner of Bad and Ass is a collection of Carrie Schiffler’s memories about growing up in welfare housing to absentee and alcoholic parents. Throughout these heart-wrenching and often-hilarious stories, we cheer her on as she fights to survive domestic violence, sexual abuse, and cycles of poverty and addiction ... all before her 18th birthday. Prepare to laugh at her attempts to earn the attention she craves and prepare to cry over the inappropriate attention she receives.
By: Carrie Shiffler
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Tolkien in East Yorkshire 1917-1918
- By: Phil Mathison
- Narrated by: D Peter Spencer
- Length: 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Had Tolkien not spent nearly 18 months convalescing in the East Riding of Yorkshire, then he would probably not have survived the Great War. This modest publication, which contains a number of previously unpublished details about the author’s stay in the area, attempts to guide you around the corners of East Yorkshire that have a Tolkien connection. His stay recuperating at Brooklands Hospital in Hull gave him time to develop his writings, but it is the fragile and atmospheric coast of Holderness where he was billeted that helped to inspire him.
By: Phil Mathison
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes
- Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
- By: Kit de Waal
- Narrated by: Kit de Waal
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for his relatives in the Caribbean, cooked elaborate meals on a whim and splurged money they didn't have on cars, suits and shoes fit for a prince. Both of her parents were waiting for paradise. It never came.
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Superb
- By Amazon Customer on 19-08-22
By: Kit de Waal
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The Terrible Speed of Mercy
- A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor
- By: Jonathan Rogers
- Narrated by: Jeremy Childs
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Jonathan Rogers follows the roots of Flannery O’Connor’s fervent Catholicism and traces the outlines of a life marked by illness and suffering, but ultimately defined by an irrepressible joy. In her stories, and in her life story, Flannery O’Connor extends a hand in the dark, warning and reassuring us of the terrible speed of mercy.
By: Jonathan Rogers
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Black and Female
- By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Narrated by: Chipo Chung
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In five short essays, the award-winning writer dissects the nervous condition of being not only Black, and not only a woman, but also quote-unquote "postcolonial". Weaving together the experiences, events, intersections and negotiations of her multifaceted identity, Dangarembga offers a powerful vision of Black liberation.
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The World of J.R.R. Tolkien
- By: Dimitra Fimi, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Dimitra Fimi
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Original Recording
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In The World of J.R.R. Tolkien, you will join Dr. Dimitra Fimi to delve into Tolkien’s complex and multilayered mythology, examining all these ingredients and more. In these 10 lectures, you will explore and appreciate Middle-earth as medieval, mythological, and modern, a literary creation that was shaped by forces old and new. And you may be surprised to discover just how much of Tolkien’s legendarium was constructed posthumously, with his son Christopher compiling and publishing many of Tolkien’s later works after his death.
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Immersive and Fascinating
- By Hollie on 15-08-22
By: Dimitra Fimi, and others
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From the Corner of Bad and Ass
- By: Carrie Shiffler
- Narrated by: Carrie Schiffler
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Corner of Bad and Ass is a collection of Carrie Schiffler’s memories about growing up in welfare housing to absentee and alcoholic parents. Throughout these heart-wrenching and often-hilarious stories, we cheer her on as she fights to survive domestic violence, sexual abuse, and cycles of poverty and addiction ... all before her 18th birthday. Prepare to laugh at her attempts to earn the attention she craves and prepare to cry over the inappropriate attention she receives.
By: Carrie Shiffler
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Tolkien in East Yorkshire 1917-1918
- By: Phil Mathison
- Narrated by: D Peter Spencer
- Length: 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Had Tolkien not spent nearly 18 months convalescing in the East Riding of Yorkshire, then he would probably not have survived the Great War. This modest publication, which contains a number of previously unpublished details about the author’s stay in the area, attempts to guide you around the corners of East Yorkshire that have a Tolkien connection. His stay recuperating at Brooklands Hospital in Hull gave him time to develop his writings, but it is the fragile and atmospheric coast of Holderness where he was billeted that helped to inspire him.
By: Phil Mathison
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
- By: Gene Andrew Jarrett
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the "poet laureate of his race" hid the private struggles of a man who, in the words of his famous poem, felt like a "caged bird" that sings.
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Upton Sinclair
- California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual
- By: Lauren Coodley
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Had Upton Sinclair not written a single book after The Jungle, he would still be famous. But Sinclair was a mere 25 years old when he wrote The Jungle, and over the next 65 years, he wrote nearly 80 more books and won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He was also a filmmaker, labor activist, women’s rights advocate, and health pioneer on a grand scale. This new biography of Sinclair underscores his place in the American story as a social, political, and cultural force, a man who more than any other disrupted and documented his era in the name of social justice.
By: Lauren Coodley
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Unearthing the Secret Garden
- The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett
- By: Marta McDowell
- Narrated by: Jane Copland
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Marta McDowell has revealed the way that plants have stirred some of our most cherished authors, including Beatrix Potter, Emily Dickinson, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. In her latest, Unearthing The Secret Garden, she delves into the professional and gardening life of Frances Hodgson Burnett. McDowell paints an unforgettable portrait of a great artist and reminds us why The Secret Garden continues to touch us after more than a century. This deeply moving book is a must-listen for fans of The Secret Garden and anyone who loves the story behind the story.
By: Marta McDowell
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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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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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Very personal and profoundly moving
- By P M D Edgington on 16-08-22
By: Seán Hewitt
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A Life of Philip K. Dick
- The Man Who Remembered the Future
- By: Anthony Peake
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Philip K. Dick was a visionary writer. From post-apocalyptic San Francisco to Nazi-occupied America, his strange alternative futures have transfixed the world. But his life was every bit as unusual as his fiction. A Life of Philip K Dick opens a window into PKD's unique mind. Written with close cooperation with two of his ex-wives and a number of his friends, we are taken through his five marriages, his periods living in squalor, and his souring literary success. We are also given unparalleled insight into his transcendental experiences.
By: Anthony Peake
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Rumi and His Master Shams-i Tabrīzī
- What Would Be Rumi Without His Master
- By: Ameen Lalani
- Narrated by: Allison Hart
- Length: 31 mins
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More than 700 years ago, Rumi left us, but still his light continues to burn bright. All these centuries later, he remains a best-selling poet in the United States, and every day, people turn to his poems and quotes for guidance and wisdom. In this short book, Rumi and His Master Shams-i Tabrīzī, we explore the origins of Rumi and his master, Shams-i Tabrizi. The latter—a historical figure who gets little attention—can be said to be the original flame that sparked Rumi’s interest in poetry and led him to turn to poetry during his darkest hours.
By: Ameen Lalani
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Young Bloomsbury
- The Generation That Reimagined Love, Freedom and Self-Expression
- By: Nino Strachey
- Narrated by: Nino Strachey
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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Surprisingly little has been written about second-generation Bloomsbury who tantalised the original 'Bloomsburies' at Gordon Square parties with their captivating looks and provocative ideas. Young Bloomsbury introduces us to an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters, including novelist and music critic Eddy Sackville-West, 'who wore elaborate make-up and dressed in satin and black velvet', sculptor Stephen Tomlin and writer Julia Strachey.
By: Nino Strachey
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Rumi
- Adherent of the Appointed
- By: Omar Ali Zafar
- Narrated by: S. D. Cousins
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
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Rumi is a renowned Sufi mystic who lived a life in devotion to the divine, through adhering to the ways of the appointed seal of the prophets, Muhammad (SAW), who can be more commonly referred to as the chosen one. Many fail to recognize and realize this. Many also fail to recognize who Shamsudeen Tabrizi (RA) was and how he had such a life-changing impact on the life of Rumi that would then make him world-famous and his works magnetic. This is a unique book written about Maulana Jalaludeen ar-Rumi (RA), who is famous for his poetry, writings, and his spirituality.
By: Omar Ali Zafar
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Life of Keats
- By: Margaret Robertson
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 27 mins
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Despite living a short life, and having a relatively small output, John Keats (1795-1821) has become one of the most celebrated English poets. This brief biography covers the important events of his life and provides a charming portrait of one of the most appealing and tragic figures of English literature.
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The Little Locksmith
- A Memoir
- By: Katharine Butler Hathaway
- Narrated by: Julia Atwood
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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In 1895, a specialist straps five-year-old Katharine Hathaway, then suffering from spinal tuberculosis, to a board with halters and pulleys in a failed attempt to prevent her from becoming a “hunchback” like the “little locksmith” who does odd jobs at her family’s home. Forced to endure her confinement for ten years, Katharine remains immobile until age fifteen, only to find that none of it has prevented her from developing a deformity of her own.
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I Used to Live Here Once
- The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
- By: Miranda Seymour
- Narrated by: Diana Quick
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction—above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea—that has a passionate following today. And yet her own colorful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica, remains too little explored, until now.
By: Miranda Seymour
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Mary Shelley
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Charlotte Gordon
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writing Frankenstein, the idea that a woman could dream up such a tale was as far-fetched as raising a being from the dead. But Mary wasn't just any woman. The daughter of two notorious radicals, Mary had become an outcast from English society when she was only sixteen. A lifelong advocate for the rights of women, she refused to be governed by social conventions, running away with a married man, having children out of wedlock, and authoring books, stories, and essays that broke literary conventions.
By: Charlotte Gordon