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    • Love's Executioner

    • By: Irvin D. Yalom
    • Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 723 ratings
    • The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....

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    • Under the Duvet

    • By: Marian Keyes
    • Narrated by: Marian Keyes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs....

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    • Alan Bennett: Untold Stories

    • Read by Alan Bennett
    • By: Alan Bennett
    • Narrated by: Alan Bennett
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 08-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

    • 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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    • Orwell: The Essays

    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings

    • A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers....

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    • Where There's a Will

    • By: John Mortimer
    • Narrated by: Bill Wallis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Following the best-selling Summer of a Dormouse, Sir John Mortimer - playwright, novelist, octogenarian, and erstwhile QC - offers up more lessons in living and growing old disgracefully....

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    • The Challenge of Things

    • Thinking Through Troubled Times
    • By: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Philip Franks
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers but this time to collect Grayling's recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict....

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    • Cultural Amnesia

    • Notes in the Margin of My Time
    • By: Clive James
    • Narrated by: Clive James
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings
    • An almanac combining a survey of modern culture with an index of who-was-who and what-was-what, Cultural Amnesia is a unique take on the places and faces that shaped the 20th century....

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    • On the Genealogy of Morals

    • A Polemic
    • By: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Duncan Steen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • In On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche furthers his pursuit of a clarity that is less tainted by imposed prejudices....

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    • To Throw Away Unopened

    • By: Viv Albertine
    • Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings

    • What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic....

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    • In Praise of Shadows

    • By: Junichiro Tanizaki
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....

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    • Aspects of the Novel

    • By: E. M. Forster
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration....

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    • The Periodic Table

    • By: Primo Levi
    • Narrated by: Neville Jason
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element....

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    • The Practicing Stoic

    • By: Ward Farnsworth
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 682 ratings

    • The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise....

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    • RISK!

    • True Stories People Never Thought They'd Dare to Share
    • By: Kevin Allison - editor
    • Narrated by: Kevin Allison, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 17-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • A diverse collection of uncensored, confessional, and at times outrageously funny essays about coming of age, coming out, and the wildest experiences that define us....

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    • Figures in a Landscape

    • People and Places
    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

    • Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons to intimate personal remembrances....

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