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The Book Collectors of Daraya
- A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
- By: Delphine Minoui, Lara Vergnaud
- Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus was brutally besieged by Syrian government forces. Four years of suffering ensued, punctuated by shelling, barrel bombs and chemical gas attacks. People’s homes were destroyed and their food supplies cut off; disease was rife. Yet in this man-made hell, 40 young Syrian revolutionaries embarked on an extraordinary project, rescuing all the books they could find in the bombed-out ruins of their home town. They used them to create a secret library, in a safe place, deep underground.
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The Book Collectors of Daraya
- A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
- Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2021
- Language: English
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Holding the Note
- Writing On Music
- By: David Remnick
- Narrated by: David Remnick, Matt Godfrey
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years.
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Holding the Note
- Writing On Music
- Narrated by: David Remnick, Matt Godfrey
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-10-2023
- Language: English
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On Agoraphobia
- By: Graham Caveney
- Narrated by: Graham Caveney
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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When Graham Caveney was in his early 20s, he began to suffer from what was eventually diagnosed as agoraphobia. What followed were decades of managing his condition and learning to live within the narrow limits it imposed on his life: no motorways, no dual carriageways, no shopping centres, limited time outdoors. Graham’s quest to understand his illness brought him back to his first love: books. From Harper Lee’s Boo Radley, Ford Madox Ford, Emily Dickinson and Shirley Jackson: the literary world is replete with examples of agoraphobics—once you go looking for them.
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On Agoraphobia
- Narrated by: Graham Caveney
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 28-04-2022
- Language: English
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Time Lived, Without Its Flow
- By: Denise Riley
- Narrated by: Denise Riley, Max Porter
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
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Time Lived, Without Its Flow is an astonishing, unflinching essay on the nature of grief from critically acclaimed poet Denise Riley. From the horrific experience of maternal grief Riley wrote her lauded collection Say Something Back, a modern classic of British poetry. This essay is a companion piece to that work, looking at the way time stops when we lose someone suddenly from our lives.
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Time Lived, Without Its Flow
- Narrated by: Denise Riley, Max Porter
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2019
- Language: English
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Time Come
- Selected Prose
- By: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Paul Gilroy - introduction
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe - introduction, Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of non-fiction. Here, he selects some of his most powerful prose for the first time. Written over many decades, it is a body of work that draws creatively and critically on Johnson’s own Jamaican roots and on Caribbean history to explore the politics of race and ethnicity that continue to inform the Black British experience.
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Time Come
- Selected Prose
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe - introduction, Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2023
- Language: English
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Into the Night
- A Year with the Police
- By: Matt Lloyd-Rose
- Narrated by: Nneka Okoye, Simon Lawson, Theo Solomon
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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A former carer, primary school teacher and education researcher, Matt Lloyd-Rose became a volunteer police officer to try to understand the challenges facing young people in Brixton, the place he lived and taught. He got more than he bargained for. Each Friday evening, he put on the uniform and policed South London: racing through it on blue lights, patrolling its streets, entering a parallel version of a place he thought he knew.
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Into the Night
- A Year with the Police
- Narrated by: Nneka Okoye, Simon Lawson, Theo Solomon
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-05-2023
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Bad Mother: The Teenage Years
- By: Stephanie Calman
- Narrated by: Stephanie Calman
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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When you’re pregnant you think: ‘I’m having a baby’, not a person who will eventually catch trains by themselves, share a fridge with 10 strangers, go to a festival in Croatia without succumbing to a drug overdose, and, one day, bring you a gin and tonic when your mother is dying. We imagine the teenage years as a sort of domestic meteor strike, when our dear, sweet child, hitherto so trusting and mild, is suddenly replaced by a sarcastic know-all who isn’t interested in the wisdom we have to pass on.
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Confessions of a Bad Mother: The Teenage Years
- Narrated by: Stephanie Calman
- Series: Confessions of a Bad Mother, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2019
- Language: English
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Let's See What Happens
- The Last Mayor of Bristol
- By: Marvin Rees
- Length: 9 hrs
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In 2016, Marvin Rees was elected as Mayor of Bristol, the first time a major European city had elected a mayor of Black African heritage. Re-elected in 2021, his eight-year tenure has taken the city through everything from Brexit to Covid, the cost of living crisis to the fall of the Colston statue. With the eyes of the world on Bristol, Rees navigated a high-stakes balancing act to keep the city together – all the while dealing with racist abuse and personal threats.
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Let's See What Happens
- The Last Mayor of Bristol
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 22-08-2024
- Language: English
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Our Evenings
- By: Alan Hollinghurst
- Length: 15 hrs
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Our Evenings is Dave Win’s own account of his life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security; but it is also, very movingly, the story of his hard-working widowed mother, whose own life takes an unexpected new turn after her son leaves home.
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Our Evenings
- Length: 15 hrs
- Release date: 03-10-2024
- Language: English
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Love Me!
- One woman’s search for a different happy ever after
- By: Marianne Power
- Narrated by: Marianne Power
- Length: 11 hrs
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Can you be happy without long-term romantic love at the centre of your life? Society still sets the gold standard for successful living as a marriage and kids. As Marianne Power turns forty, she wonders why this is still so elusive for her and whether, in fact, this is what she even wants, or just what she feels like she should want.
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Love Me!
- One woman’s search for a different happy ever after
- Narrated by: Marianne Power
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 22-08-2024
- Language: English
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My Good Bright Wolf
- A Memoir
- By: Sarah Moss
- Length: 9 hrs
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My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir about thinking and reading, eating and not eating, about privilege and scarcity, about the relationships that form us and the long tentacles of childhood. Sarah confronts all of this in a book that pushes at the boundaries of memoir-writing. Opening in the second person, it narrates contested memories of girlhood at the hands of embattled, distracted parents in a time of disastrous attitudes towards eating and female discipline.
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My Good Bright Wolf
- A Memoir
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 29-08-2024
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Bad Mother
- By: Stephanie Calman
- Narrated by: Stephanie Calman
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Funny, acutely observed, frighteningly honest and drawing on her own and hundreds of other mum's real experiences, Stephanie Calman serves up the perfect antidote to all those books that tell you that your children must be perfect, and to all those Stepford mums and kids out there who look as if they just might be: perfectly groomed, perfectly behaved and perfectly brilliant.
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Confessions of a Bad Mother
- Narrated by: Stephanie Calman
- Series: Confessions of a Bad Mother, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2019
- Language: English
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Storm Pegs
- A Life Made in Shetland
- By: Jen Hadfield
- Narrated by: Jen Hadfield
- Length: 9 hrs
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In her late twenties, celebrated poet Jen Hadfield moved to the Shetland archipelago to make her life anew. A scattering of islands at the northernmost point of the United Kingdom, frequently cut off from the mainland by storms, Shetland is a place of Vikings and myths, of ancient languages and old customs, of breathtaking landscapes and violent weather. It has long fascinated travellers seeking the edge of the world. On these islands known for their isolation and drama, Hadfield found something more.
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Storm Pegs
- A Life Made in Shetland
- Narrated by: Jen Hadfield
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 11-07-2024
- Language: English
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The Endless Country
- A Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years
- By: Sami Kent
- Narrated by: Ojan Genc, Sami Kent
- Length: 12 hrs
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The Endless Country takes a journey through Turkey’s past – the nation the author’s father left decades ago and he returns to as a young man. It is not about Erdogan or Atatürk, the two towering Presidents who have book-ended that history, and at times have appeared impossible to escape. Instead Sami Kent’s book goes deep beyond them, revealing a history as rich, layered and absurd as his family’s favourite dessert, künefe: a shredded wheat pastry with a core of melted cheese, a topping of pistachios, and a drowning of syrup.
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The Endless Country
- A Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years
- Narrated by: Ojan Genc, Sami Kent
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 27-06-2024
- Language: English
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Just About Coping
- A Real-Life Drama from the Psychotherapist's Chair
- By: Natalie Cawley
- Narrated by: Melissa Vaughan
- Length: 10 hrs
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At the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively lies, Steph is coping with rejection and their therapist, Dr Natalie, is dealing with her own emotional crisis, breathing into a paper bag between patient sessions. In this lively and honest memoir of training to be a psychotherapist, we meet the patients grappling with mental health issues, from OCD and addiction to self-deception and self-harming, and see how Dr Natalie helps them understand and change these attempts to self-soothe.
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Just About Coping
- A Real-Life Drama from the Psychotherapist's Chair
- Narrated by: Melissa Vaughan
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 25-07-2024
- Language: English
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Air and Love
- A Story of Food, Family and Belonging
- By: Or Rosenboim
- Narrated by: Or Rosenboim
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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As a child, Or Rosenboim’s knowledge of her family history was based on the food her grandmothers cooked for her – round kneidlach balls in hot chicken broth, cinnamon-scented noodle kugel, stuffed vine leaves, herby green rice with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and aubergine in tomato sauce. She knew that her family had a complex past but it was only reading her grandmothers’ recipe books after they both died that she began to explore that past for the first time.
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Air and Love
- A Story of Food, Family and Belonging
- Narrated by: Or Rosenboim
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2024
- Language: English
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Milk
- On Motherhood and Madness
- By: Alice Kinsella
- Narrated by: Alice Kinsella
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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A map of motherhood, Milk is at once a gentle and meditative story of one woman’s experience of new motherhood as well as a confronting and often painful examination of the experience of having children in contemporary Ireland. Alice Kinsella is a young mother, giving birth to her son in her mid-twenties, adrift in a new town and navigating her newly accompanied life. A powerful and yet delicate mix of the personal and political, Milk is an unflinching and unique memoir that looks at the experience of motherhood against the backdrop of a seemingly changed Ireland.
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Milk
- On Motherhood and Madness
- Narrated by: Alice Kinsella
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-03-2023
- Language: English
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My Brother
- By: Jamaica Kincaid
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on 19 January 1996, at the age of thirty-three. This incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also the story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on her powerful, sometimes threatening mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families.
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My Brother
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-08-2024
- Language: English
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