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  • On Connection cover art

    • On Connection

    • By: Kae Tempest
    • Narrated by: Kae Tempest
    • Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings

    • Honest, tender and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth....

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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 206 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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    • 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 84 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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    • 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 726 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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    • 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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    • Letters to a Young Contrarian

    • By: Christopher Hitchens
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings

    • In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents....

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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 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 684 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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    • 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 72 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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    • 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 149 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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    • 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 251 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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    • The Trials of Oscar Wilde

    • By: Gyles Brandreth
    • Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • This compelling dramatic recreation has been carefully compiled from the original trial transcripts....

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    • The Alan Clark Diaries

    • In Power 1983-1992
    • By: Alan Clark
    • Narrated by: Alan Clark
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 16-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • This was Alan Clark’s first volume of diaries and the only one that he recorded....

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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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    • Self-Reliance

    • The Unparalleled Vision of Personal Power from America's Greatest Transcendental Philosopher
    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mitch Horowitz - Abridged and Introduced by
    • Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
    • Length: 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Self-Reliance is a life-changing experience - its message of nonconformity, self-expression, and personal independence can awaken you to a new, and better, way of living....

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    • The Lion and the Unicorn

    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

    • George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change....

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