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No Friend but the Mountains
- Writing from Manus Prison
- By: Behrouz Boochani, Omid Tofighian - translator
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Robertson, Isobelle Carmody, Mathilda Imlah, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi....
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First-rate story, third-rate narration
- By Eloise on 26-08-2019
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Parsnips, Buttered
- Bamboozle and Boycott Modern Life, One Email at a Time
- By: Joe Lycett
- Narrated by: Joe Lycett
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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In this book I have attempted to solve each and every one of life's problems. And I have succeeded....
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Hilarious
- By Sara Russell on 08-02-2018
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84 Charing Cross Road
- By: Helene Hanff
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, John Nettles
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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Told in a series of letters, this true story of the correspondence between a New York writer and a London bookseller has touched the hearts of thousands....
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Marvellous!
- By Kylie on 01-09-2016
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1)
- 1918-38
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 39 hrs and 13 mins
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Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958....
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No Friend but the Mountains
- Writing from Manus Prison
- By: Behrouz Boochani, Omid Tofighian - translator
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Robertson, Isobelle Carmody, Mathilda Imlah, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi....
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First-rate story, third-rate narration
- By Eloise on 26-08-2019
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Parsnips, Buttered
- Bamboozle and Boycott Modern Life, One Email at a Time
- By: Joe Lycett
- Narrated by: Joe Lycett
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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In this book I have attempted to solve each and every one of life's problems. And I have succeeded....
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Hilarious
- By Sara Russell on 08-02-2018
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84 Charing Cross Road
- By: Helene Hanff
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, John Nettles
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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Told in a series of letters, this true story of the correspondence between a New York writer and a London bookseller has touched the hearts of thousands....
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Marvellous!
- By Kylie on 01-09-2016
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1)
- 1918-38
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 39 hrs and 13 mins
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Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958....
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The Collected Works of Jim Morrison
- Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics
- By: Jim Morrison, Tom Robbins - foreword
- Narrated by: Jim Morrison, Liz Phair, Oliver Ray, and others
- Length: 6 hrs
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The definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks....
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Letters from a Stoic
- Penguin Classics
- By: Seneca
- Narrated by: Julian Glover
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', the Stoic philosophy called for the restraint of animal instincts and the importance of upright ethical ideals and virtuous living....
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Loved It and narration was brilliant!
- By Anonymous User on 24-03-2021
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Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
- By: Roger Deakin
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Calming, thought-provoking, poetic and honest, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm is a collection of writing and musing by documentary-maker, environmentalist and author of Waterlog Roger Deakin.
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Last Stop Auschwitz
- My Story of Survival
- By: Eddy de Wind
- Narrated by: Boris Hiestand
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife, Friedel. Last Stop Auschwitz is an extraordinary account of life as a prisoner, a near real-time record of the daily struggle to survive but also of flickering moments of joy....
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From the Corner of the Oval Office
- By: Beck Dorey-Stein
- Narrated by: Beck Dorey-Stein
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in Washington, DC, when a posting on Craigslist landed her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama's stenographers....
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Sugary and delicious
- By Kai1 on 14-05-2019
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Letters from an Astrophysicist
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson, full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe....
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Informative listening!
- By Anonymous User on 29-01-2021
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End of a Berlin Diary
- The Berlin Diary Series, Book 2
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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A radio broadcaster and journalist for Edward R. Murrow at CBS, William L. Shirer was new to the world of broadcast journalism when he began keeping a diary while on assignment in Europe during the 1930s....
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Modern Nature
- Journals, 1989 - 1990
- By: Derek Jarman
- Narrated by: Julian Sands
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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A meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness. In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness. Facing an uncertain future, he nevertheless found solace in nature....
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Letters to the Midwife
- By: Jennifer Worth
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson, Clive Mantle
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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When the Call The Midwife series became bestsellers Jennifer Worth received mountains of letters....
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Wonderful!!!
- By Shani on 26-02-2018
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Yellow Notebook
- Diaries Volume I 1978-1987
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bounds, in a laundry cupboard....
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Hiroshima Diary
- The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
- By: Michihiko Hachiya MD
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city....
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A precious poignant "peace" of history.
- By Anonymous User on 23-09-2018
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One Day I'll Remember This
- Diaries 1987-1995
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 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....
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Letters to a Young Poet
- (Penguin Classics)
- By: Rainer Maria Rilke, Charlie Louth - translator
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens, Max Deacon
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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At the start of the 20th century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself....
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King's Counsellor
- Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles
- By: Sir Alan Lascelles, Duff Hart-Davis
- Narrated by: Pip Torrens
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
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As Assistant Private Secretary to four monarchs, 'Tommy' Lascelles had a ringside seat from which to observe the workings of the royal household and Downing Street during the first half of the 20th century....
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Letters from a Stoic
- By: Lucius Seneca
- Narrated by: Austin Vanfleet
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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Seneca's Letters from a Stoic is considered one of the thought-leaders of philosophy in the history of classical literature. The compilation offers a comprehensive introduction to the stoic philosophy....
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The Palace Letters
- The Queen, the Governor-General, and the Plot to Dismiss Gough Whitlam
- By: Jenny Hocking
- Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Discover the role the queen played in Governor-General Sir John Kerr’s plans to dismiss Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, unleashing one of the most divisive episodes in Australia’s political history....
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Love, Kurt
- The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945
- By: Kurt Vonnegut, Edith Vonnegut - editor
- Narrated by: Lucas Hedges, Edith Vonnegut
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
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A never-before-heard collection of deeply personal love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter....
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Tales from the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess
- By: Amanda Owen
- Narrated by: Amanda Owen
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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A charming, evocative collection of Amanda Owen's columns in The Dalesman magazine, describing life on the farm for her family....
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Love, Nina
- Despatches from Family Life
- By: Nina Stibbe
- Narrated by: Nina Stibbe
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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In the 1980s, Nina Stibbe wrote letters home to her sister in Leicester describing her trials and triumphs as a nanny to a London family....
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Funny, funny, funny
- By jackie b on 16-06-2019
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Wuhan Diary
- Dispatches from a Quarantined City
- By: Fang Fang, Michael Berry - translator
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary....
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Fascinating insight into lockdown in Wuhan.
- By Lynley Young on 13-09-2020
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The Windsor Diaries
- 1940-45
- By: Alathea Fitzalan Howard
- Narrated by: Alice McMillan, Sandra Duncan
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Alathea's home life was an unhappy one. Her parents had separated and so during the war she was sent to live with her grandfather, Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent, at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park....
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Diary of an MP's wife
- Inside and Outside Power
- By: Sasha Swire
- Narrated by: Leo Merton
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
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What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the lid. For more than two decades she has kept a secret diary detailing the trials and tribulations of being a political plus-one....
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A Farmer's Diary
- A Year at High House Farm
- By: Sally Urwin
- Narrated by: Janine Birkett
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Sally Urwin and her husband, Steve, own High House Farm in Northumberland, which they share with Mavis the sheepdog, one fat pony and many sheep. Set in beautiful, wild landscape, and in use for generations, it's the perfect setting for Sally's honest and charming account of farming life....
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Sweet
- By FocusOnSimple on 06-03-2021
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Fire
- From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934--1937
- By: Anais Nin
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
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The renowned diarist continues the story begun in Henry and June and Incest. Drawing from the author's original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin's journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally....
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Correspondance
- Sigmund Freud - Stephan Zweig
- By: Sigmund Freud, Stephan Zweig
- Narrated by: Marc-Henri Boisse, Jean-François Maurel
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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Pendant trente ans, Freud et Zweig vont échanger des lettres dans lesquelles percent l'admiration, et même une certaine affection, qu'ils ont l'un pour l'autre...
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Letters of Note: Art
- By: Shaun Usher
- Narrated by: Sanjeev Bhaskar, Simon Callow, Benedict Cumberbatch, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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In Letters of Note: Art, Shaun Usher celebrates extraordinary correspondence about art, from missives on the agony of being overlooked, the ecstasy of producing work that excites, to surprising sources of inspiration and rousing manifestos....
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Letters of Note: Cats
- By: Shaun Usher
- Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
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In Letters of Note: Cats, Shaun Usher collects together the most engaging missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions....
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Free at Last!
- The Diaries 1991-2001
- By: Tony Benn
- Narrated by: Tony Benn
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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Tony Benn's diaries began in 1940, and have been compared to those of Pepys in their detail, scope, and accuracy....
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To Obama
- With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair
- By: Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Narrated by: Jeanne Marie Laskas, Sullivan Jones, full cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Every day, President Obama received 10,000 letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read 10 of them before going to bed....
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An intimate insight into the stories of the American people
- By Cath on 05-04-2021
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Love in the Blitz
- The Greatest Lost Love Letters of the Second World War
- By: Eileen Alexander
- Narrated by: Sian Clifford, Stephanie Racine, Oswyn Murray
- Length: 21 hrs
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In summer 1939, war was brewing. Eileen Alexander was a bright young graduate just leaving Cambridge and newly smitten with Gershon Ellenbogen, a fellow student who had inadvertently involved her in a car crash....
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Last Words
- A Diary of Survival
- By: Shari J. Ryan
- Narrated by: Stephanie Willis, Susan Larkin, Chris Kayser
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Amelia - 1942: The inside of my closet held the last bit of my freedom before I was torn from my home and shoved onto a dark train. Our destination was even darker....
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The Voyage of the Beagle
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Voyage of the Beagle foreshadows Darwin's world-changing On The Origin of Species (also a CSA Word audiobook read by Richard Dawkins), in its constant intellectual quest....
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Great book
- By susan glazier on 26-05-2017