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The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Bill Bryson's hilarious memoir of growing up in middle America in the Fifties, complete, unabridged and read by the author. Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24 carat memoir gold.
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Eloquent with laugh out loud humour.
- By Dianne on 22-06-2019
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The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 30-08-2006
- Language: English
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Wifedom
- Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life
- By: Anna Funder
- Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood, Jane Slavin
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own... When she uncovers his forgotten wife, it's a revelation. Eileen O'Shaughnessy's literary brilliance shaped Orwell's work and her practical nous saved his life. But why - and how - was she written out of the story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder recreates the Orwell's marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and WWII in London.
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All praise for this monumental work
- By Win Jodell on 15-07-2023
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Wifedom
- Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life
- Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood, Jane Slavin
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 05-07-2023
- Language: English
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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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Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he's stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most.
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Not all laughs
- By Sarah on 19-02-2023
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Happy-Go-Lucky
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-06-2022
- Language: English
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Going Solo
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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This is the second part of Roald Dahl's remarkable life story, following on from Boy. When he grew up, Roald Dahl left England for Africa - and a series of dangerous adventures began. From tales of plane crashes to surviving snake bites, this is Roald Dahl's extraordinary life before becoming the world's number one storyteller."
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Wonderful
- By Amanda on 17-02-2018
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Going Solo
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Series: The Roald Dahl Classic Collection
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 11-09-2014
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
- By: Maureen Corrigan, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Maureen Corrigan
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Meet Agatha Christie, the best-selling novelist in human history. Her writing career spanned six decades, during which time she wrote 66 crime novels, 6 non-crime novels (including romances), and over 150 short stories. Not only was she a phenomenally successful novelist, but she is also the most successful female playwright of all time - her play “The Mousetrap” is the longest-running show in history. As you learn about Christie’s experiences and her storied career, you will better understand how the circumstances of her life shaped her work and vice versa.
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Loved it
- By Anonymous User on 04-12-2023
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The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Maureen Corrigan
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 20-07-2021
- Language: English
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Jane Austen at Home
- By: Lucy Worsley
- Narrated by: Ruth Redman, Lucy Worsley
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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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. This new telling of the story of Jane's life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her and the way in which home is used in her novels to mean both a place of pleasure and a prison. It wasn't all country houses and ballrooms; in fact her life was often a painful struggle.
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Exceptional
- By Lorraine angeli on 06-09-2023
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Jane Austen at Home
- Narrated by: Ruth Redman, Lucy Worsley
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 18-05-2017
- Language: English
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On Writing
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In June of 1999, Stephen King was hit by a van while walking along the shoulder of a country road in Maine. Six operations were required to save his life and mend his broken body. When he was finally able to sit up, he immediately started writing. This book - part biography, part a collection of tips for the aspiring writer - is the extraordinary result.
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Spoiler:- It was the dog sniffing the cooler
- By david on 23-04-2016
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On Writing
- Narrated by: Stephen King
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 19-07-2012
- Language: English
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I Will Show You How It Was
- The Story of Wartime Kyiv
- By: Illia Ponomarenko
- Narrated by: Sergey Nagorny
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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I Will Show You How It Was is Illia Ponomarenko’s heart-wrenching memoir of the war on his homeland, offering a fiery diatribe against Russian hypocrisy and a moving look at what is being lost. But it’s also a story of pride and even elation as Ukrainian forces come together, find their mojo, and oust the invaders from Kyiv. The most powerful and personal chronicle of the war to date, I Will Show You How It Was is an exceptional literary achievement, chronicling a stunning feat of resistance and a courageous people set on a miraculous victory.
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I Will Show You How It Was
- The Story of Wartime Kyiv
- Narrated by: Sergey Nagorny
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2024
- Language: English
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An Autobiography
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 28 hrs and 8 mins
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Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography. Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie’s readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least well-known. Her candid Autobiography, written mainly in the 1960s, modestly ignores the fact that Agatha had become the best-selling novelist in history and concentrates on her fascinating private life.
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Wonderful delightful
- By Margaret on 31-12-2022
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An Autobiography
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 28 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 12-09-2013
- Language: English
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The Truth About China
- By: Bill Birtles
- Narrated by: Bill Birtles
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Bill Birtles was rushed out of China in September 2020, forced to seek refuge in the Australian Embassy in Beijing while diplomats delicately negotiated his departure in an unprecedented standoff with China's government. Five days later, he was on a flight back to Sydney, leaving China without any Australian foreign correspondents on the ground for the first time in decades. A journalist's perspective on this rising global power has never been more important, as Australia's relationship with China undergoes an extraordinary change.
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Like a war correspondent
- By Alan Millett on 10-07-2021
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The Truth About China
- Narrated by: Bill Birtles
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2021
- Language: English
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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
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In 1982 Murakami began running to keep fit. Here he reflects on his running experiences. Equal parts travelogue, training log, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, this is a must-listen for fans of this masterful author and for the increasing number of people who find a similar satisfaction in running.
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A marathon of a book
- By Anonymous User on 08-09-2021
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-07-2016
- Language: English
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The Year of Magical Thinking
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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When celebrated writer Joan Didion’s life was altered forever, she wrote a new chapter. In this adaptation of her iconic memoir, Didion transforms the story of the shattering loss of her husband and their daughter into a one-woman play performed by Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave, who originated the role on Broadway in 2007.
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Abridged
- By Pete on 07-02-2022
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The Year of Magical Thinking
- Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-08-2020
- Language: English
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Anna
- By: Amy Odell
- Narrated by: Jennifer Woodward
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing, but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob haircuts of swinging 1960s London, she grew into a fashion-obsessed teenager. Her father, the influential editor of the Evening Standard, loomed large in her life, and once he decided she should become editor in chief of Vogue, she never looked back. Impatient to start her career, she left high school and got a job at a fashionable boutique in London—an experience that would be the first of many defeats.
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Enjoyable but lacking nitty gritty
- By M on 30-05-2022
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Anna
- Narrated by: Jennifer Woodward
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-05-2022
- Language: English
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe. The daughter of hardworking, yet strikingly unconventional English-bred immigrants, Alexandra arrives in Africa at the tender age of two. She moves through life with a hardy resilience, even as a bloody war approaches. Narrator Lisette Lecat reads this remarkable memoir of a family clinging to a harsh landscape and the dying tenets of colonialism.
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rich language, perfect narration
- By Anonymous User on 17-04-2024
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 25-12-2003
- Language: English
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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
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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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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
- Revised and Expanded edition
- Narrated by: Samuel West, Mike Grady, Chris Smith
- Length: 29 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 29-02-2024
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie
- By: Lucy Worsley
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? As Lucy Worsley says, 'She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'. Her life was 'modern' too: she went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why—despite all the evidence to the contrary—did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure?
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Narration
- By S.Attenborough on 04-10-2022
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Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 08-09-2022
- Language: English
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Hospital Sketches
- An Army Nurse’s True Account of Her Experiences During the Civil War
- By: Louisa May Alcott
- Narrated by: Anne Hancock
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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In the novel Little Women, Mr. March goes off to war. But in real life, it was Jo March (Louisa May Alcott herself, an avowed abolitionist) who traveled to Washington to nurse Northern soldiers. This is Alcott’s memoir but she chose to use the pseudonym “Tribulation Periwinkle” to tell her story. Despite the subject matter, her account is full of amusing anecdotes as she makes her way alone from Concord, Massachusetts to DC, trying to finagle a free ticket and convinced she will drown during the journey.
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Hospital Sketches
- An Army Nurse’s True Account of Her Experiences During the Civil War
- Narrated by: Anne Hancock
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 11-06-2024
- Language: English
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One Day I'll Remember This
- Diaries 1987-1995
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the furore that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in love and a great writer at work. With devastating honesty and sparkling humour, she grapples with what it means for her sense of self to be so entwined with another - how to survive as an artist in a partnership that is both enthralling and uncompromising.
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loved it!
- By paula astrinos on 06-03-2023
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One Day I'll Remember This
- Diaries 1987-1995
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Series: Diaries, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-05-2021
- Language: English
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The Best Minds
- A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
- By: Jonathan Rosen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Rosen
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle, in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of professors, the boys were best friends and fierce rivals who soon followed each other to Yale University. Michael blazed through Yale in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. Then one day, Jonathan received a devastating call: Michael had suffered a psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Michael was still in hospital when he learned he'd been accepted to Yale Law School.
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stunning
- By Louise on 01-05-2023
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The Best Minds
- A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
- Narrated by: Jonathan Rosen
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2023
- Language: English
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Phosphorescence
- By: Julia Baird
- Narrated by: Julia Baird
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Over the last decade, we have become better at knowing what brings us contentment, well-being and joy. We know, for example, that there are a few core truths to science of happiness. We know that being kind and altruistic makes us happy, that turning off devices, talking to people, forging relationships, living with meaning and delving into the concerns of others offer our best chance at achieving happiness. But how do we retain happiness? It often slips out of our hands as quickly as we find it. So, when we are exposed to, or learn, good things, how do we continue to burn with them?
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Entitled, arrogant nonsense
- By Anon on 21-07-2020
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Phosphorescence
- Narrated by: Julia Baird
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 27-04-2020
- Language: English
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