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Ian McEwan
- Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
- By: Robin Morgan
- Narrated by: Ian McEwan
- Length: 22 mins
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The legendary English novelist Ian McEwan is responsible for such best-selling novels as Enduring Love, Atonement and Solar. His latest novel, Nutshell, is narrated by Rory Kinnear and is available now on Audible. Ian joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to tell us more
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Fascinating
- By Jacqui Daniels-Gillen on 16-08-2019
- Ian McEwan
- Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
- By: Robin Morgan
- Narrated by: Ian McEwan
Fascinating
Reviewed: 16-08-2019
I love to listen to writers describing their process and inspiration. His voice is amazing..Such interesting ideas.
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Bridge of Clay
- By: Markus Zusak
- Narrated by: Markus Zusak
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world. It is Clay, the quiet one, who will build a bridge - for his family, for his past, for his sins. He's building a bridge to transcend humanness. To survive. A miracle and nothing less.
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couldn't finish it
- By Steve on 11-06-2019
- Bridge of Clay
- By: Markus Zusak
- Narrated by: Markus Zusak
Brilliant
Reviewed: 19-07-2019
I loved the narration but mostly the love. Especially the freckles and the mule! Oh to be loved like that!!
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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When Jeanette Winterson left home at 16 because she was in love with a woman, Mrs. Winterson asked her: "Why be happy when you could be normal?" This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness. It is the story of how the painful past returned to haunt Jeanette's later life, and send her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother. It is also a book about other people's stories, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life raft which supports us when we are sinking.
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Awesome book
- By Jacqui Daniels-Gillen on 17-07-2019
- Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
Awesome book
Reviewed: 17-07-2019
I could not stop listening from beginning to end. I especially liked the description of the mad part. I have been there and it really resonated with me. I also loved her description of the lost loss. Thankyou Jeanette/Janet.
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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
- By: Holly Ringland
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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A young girl loses both her parents in a tragic event and is taken to live with her grandmother on a flower farm. Growing up, Alice learns the language of Australian native flowers as a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. But she also learns that there are secrets within secrets about her past. An unexpected betrayal leaves her reeling, and she escapes to try to make her own - sometimes painful - way through the world and to find her story.
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Unbelievably Awesome
- By Zechy on 19-06-2018
- The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
- By: Holly Ringland
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
An engaging book.
Reviewed: 25-05-2019
I enjoyed it and felt attached to the main character although some of the story didn't ring true. Very interesting locations and plot.
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Where to Draw the Line
- How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day
- By: Anne Katherine MA
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In the perennial favorite Boundaries, Anne Katherine introduced the concept and importance of personal limits. In Where to Draw the Line, she takes the next step with a practical guide to establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries in a wide range of situations. With every encounter, we either demonstrate that we'll protect what we value, or that we'll give ourselves away. Healthy boundaries preserve our integrity. Unlike defenses, which isolate us from our true selves and from those we love, boundaries filter out harm.
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Biased.
- By Ben Rees on 25-03-2019
- Where to Draw the Line
- How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day
- By: Anne Katherine MA
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
some good ideas
Reviewed: 01-03-2019
I liked it but just personally found the narrator's voice annoying. I am sure others might not but I couldn't help but be distracted by it. For me when the narration is good you don't even think about it. The worked examples are good but I am not sure they weren't just focussed on a very limited group of people. It was good however to have different chapters for different types of boundary setting.
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Atomic Habits
- An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
- By: James Clear
- Narrated by: James Clear
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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A revolutionary system to get one per cent better every day. People think when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions – doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone call. He calls them atomic habits.
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physical copy would be more helpful with this one
- By Anonymous User on 20-02-2019
- Atomic Habits
- An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
- By: James Clear
- Narrated by: James Clear
Awesome read
Reviewed: 31-01-2019
I have already changed so much after only a week. cleaned out my kitchen cupboards.. sorted my work desk.. put away my toaster.. Highly recommend this book!
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The Binding
- By: Bridget Collins
- Narrated by: Carl Prekopp
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
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Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice - but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. He will learn to handcraft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there’s something you want to forget, he can help. If there’s something you need to erase, he can assist. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible.
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Thoroughly original.
- By Amazon Customer on 24-01-2019
- The Binding
- By: Bridget Collins
- Narrated by: Carl Prekopp
great read
Reviewed: 27-01-2019
I thought the narrator was excellent. It was a really interesting idea and kept me engaged all the way through.
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Any Ordinary Day
- Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
- By: Leigh Sales
- Narrated by: Leigh Sales
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing event. What are our chances of actually experiencing one? What do we fear most and why? And when the worst does happen, what comes next? In this wise and layered audiobook, Leigh talks intimately with people who've faced the unimaginable, from terrorism to natural disaster to simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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A different Perspective
- By Anonymous User on 04-10-2018
- Any Ordinary Day
- Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
- By: Leigh Sales
- Narrated by: Leigh Sales
interesting topic
Reviewed: 20-12-2018
I found the content really interesting but the narrator was a bit monotone. I actually fell asleep a few times while listening. Her writing is no doubt good but the narration was too emotionless. I liked that she looked at post traumatic growth but the end was a bit fuzzy. I was not exactly sure what the growth was in. I liked the stories and descriptions of people she admired and the way they helped people through trauma.
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Boy Swallows Universe
- By: Trent Dalton
- Narrated by: Stig Wemyss
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
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Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way - not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer. But Eli's life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He's about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has to break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day, to save his mum.
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Hard to press stop!
- By Fiona_S on 08-10-2018
- Boy Swallows Universe
- By: Trent Dalton
- Narrated by: Stig Wemyss
The best book I have read in ages!
Reviewed: 21-08-2018
loved the narrator! loved the story. So gripping. I had to listen to it twice it was so good!

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Attached
- The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love
- By: Amir Levine, Rachel S. F. Heller
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking audiobook, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. F. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory - the most advanced relationship science in existence today - can help us find and sustain love. Attachment theory forms the basis for many best-selling books on the parent/child relationship, but there has yet to be an accessible guide to what this fascinating science has to tell us about adult romantic relationships - until now.
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Recommend
- By Cabrica on 22-04-2017
- Attached
- The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love
- By: Amir Levine, Rachel S. F. Heller
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
interesting and informative
Reviewed: 30-04-2018
I think the theory was well explained and good examples given. The section on clear communication was helpful. I think what was lacking was a detailed explanation of how one might move from a less useful attachment style to a more secure one. Also I would have liked more on why these styles emerge from previous relationships. Overall a worthwhile read.