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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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Surprised by Joy
- The Shape of My Early Life
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book, C.S. Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity.
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so dense itbis hard to follow
- By Daniel on 22-03-2016
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Surprised by Joy
- The Shape of My Early Life
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2005
- Language: English
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Old in Art School
- By: Nell Painter
- Narrated by: Nell Painter
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school - in her 60s - to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful, demands of a life fully lived.
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Excellent
- By graham smith on 21-02-2019
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Old in Art School
- Narrated by: Nell Painter
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 19-06-2018
- Language: English
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To the River
- A Journey Beneath the Surface
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Over 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore. Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.
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a deeply moving history surprisingly shared
- By Anonymous User on 30-07-2022
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To the River
- A Journey Beneath the Surface
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-05-2019
- Language: English
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Peggy Guggenheim
- The Shock of the Modern
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a listen of Guggenheim's life that will enthrall enthusiasts of 21st-century art as well as anyone interested in American and European culture and the interrelationships between them. The lively and insightful narrative follows Guggenheim through virtually every aspect of her extraordinary life, from her unique collecting habits and paradigm-changing discoveries to her celebrity friendships, failed marriages, and scandalous affairs.
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Brilliant
- By Anonymous User on 30-05-2023
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Peggy Guggenheim
- The Shock of the Modern
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 14-04-2016
- Language: English
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How Dante Can Save Your Life
- The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
- By: Rod Dreher
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Following the death of his little sister and the publication of his New York Times best-selling memoir The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Rod Dreher found himself living in the small community of Starhill, Louisiana, where he grew up. But instead of the fellowship he hoped to find, he discovered that fault lines within his family had deepened. Dreher spiraled into depression and a stress-related autoimmune disease.
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How Dante Can Save Your Life
- The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 30-06-2015
- Language: English
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The Inklings
- C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
- By: Humphrey Carpenter
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams - remarkable friends, writers, and scholars - met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature and to read aloud from their own works in progress. Calling themselves the Inklings, their circle grew. It was in this company that such classics as The Lord of the Rings, The Screwtape Letters, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe first found an audience.
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Certainly surprised by joy
- By Kenneth on 05-03-2019
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The Inklings
- C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2017
- Language: English
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
- By: Amos Oz
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 40s and 50s in a small apartment crowded with books in 12 languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was 12 and a half years old, his mother committed suicide - a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz.
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 04-10-2016
- 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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On Assignment
- Memoir of a National Geographic Filmmaker
- By: James R. Larison
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Jim and Elaine Larison spent years studying, exploring, and living in wild places, making more than 30 environmental films, most for the National Geographic Society. These films won more than 40 international awards from leading environmental and broadcast organizations. This memoir tells the story behind the adventure and describes the rather substantial personal costs of this career.
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Environmentalist
- By Janette J Ryan on 10-12-2021
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On Assignment
- Memoir of a National Geographic Filmmaker
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 02-11-2021
- Language: English
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Goethe
- Life as a Work of Art
- By: Rüdiger Safranksi, David Dollenmayer - translator
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 24 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Rüdiger Safranski's Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is the first definitive biography in a generation to tell the larger-than-life story of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Drawing upon the trove of letters, diaries, and notebooks Goethe left behind, as well as correspondence and criticism from Goethe's contemporaries, Safranski weaves a rich tale of Europe in the throes of revolution and of the man whose ideas heralded a new era.
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Goethe
- Life as a Work of Art
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 24 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 25-12-2018
- Language: English
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Berlin Diary
- The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934–1941
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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By the acclaimed journalist and New York Times best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is the private, personal, utterly revealing journal of a great foreign correspondent.
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An excellent account of a civilisation’s decline into authoritarianism
- By Nigel Jarvis on 24-10-2021
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Berlin Diary
- The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934–1941
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 28-06-2011
- Language: English
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- By: Sylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil - editor
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 30 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Published in their entirety, Sylvia Plath's journals provide an intimate portrait of the writer who was to produce in the last seven months of her life some of the most extraordinary poems of the 20th century. Faithfully transcribed from the 23 journals and journal fragments owned by Smith College, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath includes two journals that Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, unsealed just before his death in 1998.
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 30 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 28-05-2019
- Language: English
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Trollope
- An Autobiography
- By: Anthony Trollope
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Anthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. But he was also the author of one of the most fascinating autobiographies of the nineteenth century. Trollope was born in 1815, the product of a formidable mother and a tragically unsuccessful father who was socially ambitious for his sons. He was the victim of vicious bullying at Harrow and Winchester. But he had inherited his mother's determination, and managed later to carve out a successful career in the General Post Office while devoting every spare moment to writing. How he paid his groom to wake him every morning at 5:30 a.m. and disciplined himself to write 250 words every fifteen minutes has become part of literary legend. His efforts resulted in over sixty books, a sizable fortune, and fame, and his autobiography. Trollope looks back on his life with satisfaction. Perhaps as interesting as the facts he reveals and the opinions he records about Dickens and George Eliot, politics and the civil service are the judgments he passes on his own character.
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Fascinating throughout & enlightening on the writer’s craft
- By Helen Percival on 04-06-2023
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Trollope
- An Autobiography
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 20-10-2000
- Language: English
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The Mirror of the Sea
- Memories & Impressions
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad’s two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book “a very intimate revelation...I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour’s confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which beginning mysteriously, like any great passion the inscrutable Gods send to mortals, went on unreasoning and invincible, surviving the test of disillusion, defying the disenchantment that lurks in every day of a strenuous life"....
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The view of seamen before 1900
- By Max on 08-12-2022
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The Mirror of the Sea
- Memories & Impressions
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 06-07-2021
- Language: English
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The Know-It-All
- One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
- By: A. J. Jacobs
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Cantor
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Early in his career, A.J. Jacobs put his Ivy League education to work at Entertainment Weekly. He emerged five years later knowing which stars have fake boobs, which stars have toupees, which have both, and not much else. This realization led Jacobs on a life-changing quest: to read the entire contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 33,000 pages, all 44 million words.
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The Know-It-All
- One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Cantor
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 20-10-2004
- Language: English
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The Trip to Echo Spring
- On Writers and Drinking
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America's finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these men were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable Feast.
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The Trip to Echo Spring
- On Writers and Drinking
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2019
- Language: English
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Nam Le on David Malouf
- Writers on Writers
- By: Nam Le
- Narrated by: Nam Le
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its images. Every other novel claims to be written in 'poetic prose'; the real thing, when you come across it, is actually shocking. Nam Le takes the listener on a thrilling intellectual ride in this sharp, bold essay. Encompassing identity politics, metaphysics, the relationship between life and art, and the ‘Australianness’ of Malouf’s work, it is unlike anything else written about one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers.
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Wonderful rumination on othering and creativity
- By Anthony on 30-04-2024
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Nam Le on David Malouf
- Writers on Writers
- Narrated by: Nam Le
- Series: Writers on Writers
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2019
- Language: English
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The World of J.R.R. Tolkien
- By: Dimitra Fimi, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Dimitra Fimi
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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In The World of J.R.R. Tolkien, you will join Dr. Dimitra Fimi to delve into Tolkien’s complex and multilayered mythology, examining all these ingredients and more. In these 10 lectures, you will explore and appreciate Middle-earth as medieval, mythological, and modern, a literary creation that was shaped by forces old and new. And you may be surprised to discover just how much of Tolkien’s legendarium was constructed posthumously, with his son Christopher compiling and publishing many of Tolkien’s later works after his death.
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Interesting overview of JRR Tolkien and his work
- By Shaz Ginns on 11-10-2022
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The World of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Dimitra Fimi
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 11-08-2022
- Language: English
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Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life
- The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales
- By: Marta McDowell
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life is the first work to explore the origins of Beatrix Potter's love of gardening and plants and show how this passion came to be reflected in her work.
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A love for gardening.
- By RUTH on 14-03-2024
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Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life
- The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 18-12-2018
- Language: English
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